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2014-02-03

character set, font, japan, MZ-700, SharpSCII.

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The European and Japanese fonts of the MZ-700, with 512 characters each. From here.

2014-01-18

2010s, 2013, animation, england, font, uk.

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Doge animation by Charlie Deck (Big Blue Boo), 2013. via nerdcore

2013-08-27

2000s, exhibition, font, scotland.

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Text art by Henry Segerman, 2003. Made with the Celtic Knot Font.

More here. Found via ascii-art.

2013-08-20

2010s, c64, demoscene, font, petscii, poland, scene.

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C64 PETSCII graphics by Uka / G*P.

2013-08-01

ascii, figlet, font.

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FIGlet fonts, from here.

2013-05-08

2010s, code, font, Typography, unicode.

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Yeah, humans need to step up their game. (via writing-system)

2013-04-04

1200s, ancient, calligraphy, font, tibet.

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Old Tibetan calligraphy by Tshe-tan Zhabs-drung ཚེ་ཏན་ཞབས་དྲུང followed by the Tibetan Phags-pa fonts by Babelstone and the square Mongolian style of Phags-pa used for decoration.

Seems to originate from the 1200s and is sometimes called square script. Also see the arabic square kufi.

Thanks to µB for the heads up! More here.

2013-04-03

2000s, character set, font.

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Chinese DOS font, via

2013-02-13

1930s, font, print, tools.

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The Hellschreiber teleprinter, used by the German military for telecommunications in the 1930s. Due to its pixel-based font, it performed better than the typewriter-based technologies at the time.

The strange machine photo is a receiver. You can see the “mechanical font memory” in action here. Also, listen to the transmission sounds here.

This system is still being used by some radio amateurs.

Pictures from here and here.

2012-12-01

2010, 2010s, animation, ascii, font, france, Typography.

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ASCII font by Carine Bigot, 2010. Images also from here. Two of these are animated GIFs – if they don’t move, just click on them.

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