{"id":1718,"date":"2004-09-24T17:54:51","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T21:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2004-09-24T17:59:43","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T21:59:43","slug":"just-like-on-the-old-amstrad-cpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/24\/just-like-on-the-old-amstrad-cpc\/","title":{"rendered":"Just like on the old Amstrad CPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For no really well defined reason, I used to spend hours designing really tiny bitmap fonts on my old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.unc.edu\/~llopis\/cpc\/cpc.html\">Amstrad CPC<\/a>. Now it seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/\">Jason Kottke<\/a> has done the same thing, but in truetype format:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/silkscreen_fontforge.png\" alt=\"silkscreen, in fontforge\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/plus\/type\/silkscreen\/\"><br \/>\nSilkscreen<\/a> reminds me of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpcalc.org\/\">HP49g<\/a>&#8216;s system fonts. You used to be able to get one of those in a scaleable form, so I wonder how similar it looks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if Jason&#8217;s copyright warning would work very well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>This font is free for personal and corporate use and may be redistributed in this unmodified form on your Web site. I would ask that you not modify and then redistribute this font&#8230;although you may modify it for your own<br \/>\npersonal use.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in my pre-press days, I discovered that a font becomes your design if you trivially modify just 5 glyphs. It&#8217;s an artefact of the early type producers lobbying to be able to rip each other off&nbsp;&hellip; not something that happens much in these DRM-obsessed days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For no really well defined reason, I used to spend hours designing really tiny bitmap fonts on my old Amstrad CPC. Now it seems that Jason Kottke has done the same thing, but in truetype format: Silkscreen reminds me of the HP49g&#8216;s system fonts. You used to be able to get one of those in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1814,1374],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-bitmap","tag-font"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-rI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}