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2023-04-23

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Maker:0x4c,Date:2017-10-15,Ver:4,Lens:Kan03,Act:Lar01,E-Y

CGA and MDA, Part 2
As I briefly touched upon in my previous writeup on CGA vs. MDA, CGA’s 80×25 text mode is significantly coarser than MDA’s. CGA’s 80 column text mode is rendered at 640×200 with 8×8 characters (stretched vertically to approximately 640×400), while MDA’s 80 column text mode is rendered at 720×350 with larger 9×14 characters. MDA was capable of giving text attributes such as being bolded, italicized or underlined.

Seen here are the two side-to-side on the same display, a Compaq Portable’s screen.

2023-03-27

1970s, font, Typography, VT100.

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The first image shows a ROM-dump of the font in the legendary terminals VT100 and VT220. The second image is a representation of how they appear on screen. The difference is more than just aspect ratio. Look at letters like q and p: pixels are sometimes doubled, sometimes tripled. The fascinating explanation is here.

2019-05-03

1700s, indonesia, poetry, Typography.

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Text labyrinth in buginese from 1794, via. Buginese is spoken by millions of people in Indonesia. ᨄᨘᨑᨊᨗᨀᨚᨆᨙᨋᨉᨙᨄ

2018-06-19

2010s, design, Typography, uk.

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Works by MuirMcNeil, a British design agency.

2018-04-12

2010s, 2018, animated chars, animation, design, netherlands, Typography.

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By Julien Priez (Tumblr) for All Eyes on Type, a calligraphy and typography festival in May.

2018-04-11

2010s, 2018, design, netherlands, Typography.

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Very textmodey profile by Ivo Brower for All Eyes On Type, a calligraphy and typography festival in Rotterdam in May.

2017-04-05

1910, 1910s, emoticons, print, Typography, usa.

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yesterdaysprint:

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, January 21, 1910

2017-01-17

1950s, julius nelson, typewriter, typewriter art, Typography, usa.

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Typewritten fonts by Murielle Rouleau (top, using only m) and Julius Nelson (bottom, using X and _). From Today’s Secretary 1950-1951. Scanned by Marcin Wichary.

2016-09-27

1880s, 1882, modular type, modulartype, Typography.

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From 1882, these graphics were made with 13 symbols (shown at the bottom). This is a modular type called Combination Border No. 16, by Bruce’s New York Type Foundry. A little bit like PETSCII, a little bit more like alpha blox.

Found by Pinwheel Press & thanks to Marcin Wichary for the tip.

2015-10-21

1970s, 1975, design, germany, Typography, χχχ.

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LetraTime, a German magazine from 1975. This cover won ITC’s first Upper and Lower Case International Typographics Competition.

More info. h/t: Tim Koch

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