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Reviving the Hershey fonts

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Hershey fonts in Turbo Pascal

Hershey fonts in Turbo Pascal

Posted Aug 26, 2015 12:00 UTC (Wed) by dh (subscriber, #153)
Parent article: Reviving the Hershey fonts

I remember that these fonts were packaged in Turbo Pascal v4 and up to be able to print text in graphics mode (yes, that *was* a difference back in 1988...). Borland published the fonts without any reference to the original designer but the German computer magazine c't "revealed" the original source of the fonts in January 1990. That article included a description of Borland's file format and an extension which added umlauts ("ä") to the font files. I hope, the modern reincarnation also includes these non-US special chars.

Being defined in straight line segments, Hershey's fonts are even more a true ancestor of today's vector-based font descriptions which use more complex lines. Truly amazing that this work is about 50 years old...


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