(First?) conversion from video to variable font text mode. Made by Toshi Omagari, via @pixelambacht.
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The 1986 retina screen: the WY-700 video card/screen gave the PC a 1280×800 resolution, and a text-mode of 160 columns by 50 lines. It had a built-in 16×16 font (download), and you could even use your own custom fonts. The high-res modes only supported greyscale, but who needs colours anyway?
Sources: John Elliot, thecomputerarchive.com, PC Mag.
Glyphdrawing, a new online textmode editor that supports ttf-font import and independent font size and cell size. Made by grmmxi (images from his Instagram) and Ian Tuomi.
The European font of the Sega SC-3000. Notice how curvy the full triangles and slashes are. Images from SMS Power and Saverio Russo.
Datafall by Ray Manta, made with his custom charset in Retrospecs.
Jindai moji, supposedly used in Japan in the 17th century, via @tkasasagi.
Sharp MZ-700 character sets (Japanese first, European second), from sharpmz.org. See sharpscii graphics here.
