By Unamalva (aka una niña malvada) using Glyph Drawing Club. Uses several fonts with different cell sizes.
Tag Archives: font
(First?) conversion from video to variable font text mode. Made by Toshi Omagari, via @pixelambacht.
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.
The three TRS-80 models had no less than 22 different fonts in total (top image), available in Rebecca Bettencourt’s font pack Another Mans Treasure. Shown here are the international fonts from TRS-80 Model 4, and Rebecca’s additions in the last image.
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.