Doing some 8-bit ASCII art, but can’t remember where you left your copy of MicroKnight for the Amiga? Or maybe you just need some low-res-but-high-style bitmap fonts to go with your LED pixel array.

Pixel fonts represent an interesting era of type design. They were born out of necessity when low-res displays were the only ones around, and have now become a highly niche style of retro nostalgia.

Earlier this month, amidst the 27-inch curved TV screens, VR displays, and the rest of the consumer candy on show at CES, an 100-plus-year-old font company called Monotype debuted Spark, a technology ...

The fonts seen with old computer systems such as those from Apple and Commodore, as well as Microsoft Windows 3.1 and older, form an integral part of our interaction with these systems. These days ...

I have a bunch of pdf files that display with bitmap fonts, like this:<BR><BR>View image: http://andrewkish.name/BitmapFonts.gif <BR><BR>If I had the TeX source, I'd ...

I don’t particularly like my handwriting—neither did my third grade teacher. Maybe that’s why I’m attracted to professional fonts that look like handwriting. Or maybe it’s because they’re just plain ...