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[...] on the 16-bit machines! IBM CGA Adapter (1981) Specifications Style Bold serif Width 6-7 pixels Caps 7 pixels Charset ASCII+code pages Low res 320×200 (40×25 text) Med res 640×200 (80×25 text) [...]

[...] the glyphs. Commodore PET (1977) Specifications Style Regular semi-serif Width 5-7 pixels Caps 7 pixels Charset PETSCII Screen 320×200 (40×25 text) Designer Leonard Tramiel Download in [...]

[...] heavily from other machines! Sinclair QL (1984) Specifications Style Condensed sans Width 5 pixels Caps 7 pixels Charset ASCII+code pages Low res 256×256 (40×25 text) Med res 512×256 (80×25 text) [...]

[...] on the 16-bit machines! IBM CGA Adapter (1981) Specifications Style Bold serif Width 6-7 pixels Caps 7 pixels Charset ASCII+code pages Low res 320×200 (40×25 text) Med res 640×200 (80×25 text) [...]

[...] #8217; found on the Workbench Extras disk in the Tools folder. Commodore Amiga 2.x (1991) Specifications Style Bold sans Width 6-7 pixels Caps 7 pixels Charset ISO 8859-1 Screen Configurable Designer [...]

[...] the 2 KB 2716 pinout ROM with your own EPROM or alternate ROM. Atari 400/800 (1979) Specifications Style Bold sans Width 4-6 pixels Caps 6 pixels Charset ATASCII Screen 320×192 (40×24 text) Designer [...]

[...] look at the system fonts available on the 16-bit machines! IBM CGA Adapter (1981) Specifications Style Bold serif Width 6-7 pixels Caps 7 pixels Charset ASCII+code pages Low res 320×200 (40× [...]

[...] Amiga and Acorn Archimedes all used the same trick. Acorn Archimedes/A series (1987) Specifications Style Bold sans Width 6 pixels Caps 7 pixels Charset ASCII Resolution various Designer Unknown [...]

[...] It’s been almost a year since I bit the Windows Phone 7 bullet and put my iPhone 3G away. As a long-time Mac fan (our house is nothing but Macs) I [...]

[...] It’s been a few weeks since I took up Microsoft’s employee offer of a free Windows Phone 7 (when you renew a 2 year contract) and combined it with AT&T’s offer of buy-one- [...]

[...] It’s been almost a year since I bit the Windows Phone 7 bullet and put my iPhone 3G away. As a long-time Mac fan (our house is nothing but Macs) I [...]

[...] Avatars Avatars are no longer just for the console but are escaping out onto the web and Windows Phone 7. With the new Avatar Editor you can create your own avatar or modify your existing one [...]

[...] Style Bold sans Width 6-7 pixels Caps 7 pixels Charset ISO 8859-1 Screen Configurable Designer Unknown Download in TrueType Commodore’s update to the Amiga saw all sorts of changes in the ROM [...]

[...] Charset ASCII+code pages Low res 256×256 (40×25 text) Med res 512×256 (80×25 text) Designer Unknown Download in TrueType The short-lived Sinclair QL was Sir Clive’s attempt at getting into the [...]

[...] Bold sans Width 4-7 pixels Caps 7 pixels Charset ASCII only Screen 320×256 (40×32 text) Designer Unknown Download in TrueType The Beeb, as it was affectionately known, has its own font which could [...]

My love of typography originated in the 80′s with the golden years of 8-bit home computing and their 8×8 pixel monospaced fonts on low-resolution d [...]

[...] consistent/cleaner lower-case letters ‘sj’. Technical It is possible to change the system fonts used by the GEM desktop using the ST Font Loader. Atari ST High Res (1985) Specifications [...]

[...] some of these fonts to. For more system font analysis read the sequel Typography in 16-bits: System fonts. [)amien [...]

[...] With the 8-bit system fonts post being so popular I just had to jump right in and look at the system fonts available [...]

[...] Google have switched system font for Android’s latest release (known as Ice Cream Sandwich) from the Droid Family to a new [...]

[...] Google have switched system font for Android’s latest release (known as Ice Cream Sandwich) from the Droid Family to a new [...]

[...] -bit font but with larger capitals and ascenders and a much more consistent look. Technical The system font is stored at 0xC00-0xC2FF with each character being represented by 8 sequential bytes (left [...]

[...] in TrueType Apple’s second attempt at a GUI (after the Lisa) was the Macintosh. The system font was called Chicago initially as a bitmap font which was replaced with a scalable TrueType [...]

[...] I did it. Earlier this year I caved and purchased a MacBook Pro 15" Retina after being Mac-less for a few months despite some reservations about the lack [...]

[...] Given my new focus on Windows 8 apps and the loss of my MacBook Pro I was in the market for a Windows 8 laptop. My requirements were that it had a touchscreen [...]

[...] via Webkit rather than a rational set of choices. Oddly I received performance warnings on a MacBook Pro 2.6 GHz with no major apps running. Desktop sharing Usability and screen display quality were [...]

[...] of choice (DAS Ultimate and Topre Realforce) do not come with such controls. Neither does my MacBook Pro but Apple do the elegant thing and repurpose some of the function keys. If only I could do that [...]

[...] at Microsoft. His experiences do not exactly match mine (initially on LINQ to SQL, then Entity Framework and finally xbox.com) but I recognize some of his points. Here is some further discussion [...]

[...] I found myself on a small team of 3 people tasked with putting a brand new API on top of Entity Framework for configuring models with code the .NET world would come to know as Code First. I was [...]

[...] at Microsoft. His experiences do not exactly match mine (initially on LINQ to SQL, then Entity Framework and finally xbox.com) but I recognize some of his points. Here is some further discussion [...]

[...] ’ and ‘;’ Ugly braces ‘()’ from the 8-bit font retained Rationale The font was very clear and worked well in both square pixel (low resolution) and rectangular [...]

[...] sans-serif but serifs present on ‘BDJa’ Slightly stylized ‘£’ Rationale The font is good choice for the original PET and it’s original monitor. It was unfortunately [...]

[...] Family to a new typeface known as Roboto. Typographica opened today with a critique of the Roboto font which boils down to this: The similarity to Helvetica is obvious but that similarity can be [...]

[...] Family to a new typeface known as Roboto. Typographica opened today with a critique of the Roboto font which boils down to this: The similarity to Helvetica is obvious but that similarity can be [...]