handwriting #font using #neural-networks in #wasm embedded in #Harfbuzz
on 02024-08-21the #Hofstadter #gridfonts #font page, showing specimens of the 16 fonts from “Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies”
on 02024-01-14Douglas #Hofstadter group #paper information and #font data; suggests emailing htkeller@indiana (Helga) for other publications, including McGraw’s #Letter-Spirit thesis.
on 02024-01-14the #Hofstadter #gridfonts #font data, with 287 fonts in some kind of hexadecimal #file-format that doesn’t seem to be documented
on 02024-01-14The #IMLAC SSV (“Scroll Saver”) #font disassembled from a binary.
on 02024-01-14Someone made #TrueType fonts of the #Hershey-fonts, based on AVHershey-OTF. #font
on 02024-01-14the #Slug 2-D #graphics #algorithms #paper, “GPU-Centered #Font Rendering Directly from Glyph Outlines”, by Lengyel, #CC BY-ND, 02017
on 02024-01-14"Slug" library for 2-D #graphics for rendering a #font or similar vector graphics on the GPU
on 02024-01-14#PDF #paper on 2-D #graphics for rendering a #font on the GPU, by Loop and Blinn, 02005
on 02024-01-14ImageMagick can render text into an image and produce XBM or XPM output, which are suitable for using with #include in a #C program. It can use both #TrueType outline fonts and bitmap formats like #BDF or #PCF. This is potentially a kludgy alternative to understanding the #font #file-format
on 02023-06-02George Williams wrote the best page about the #PCF #font #file-format except for the CircuitPython implementation.
on 02023-06-02#PCF #font #file-format in Kaitai Struct.
on 02023-06-02Adafruit is converting #BDF to #PCF #font #file-format using #Wasm
on 02023-06-02"bitmap_font" is a #CircuitPython #font library supporting #BDF and #PCF #file-format
on 02023-06-02#CircuitPython implementation of the #PCF #font #file-format; there's also a #BDF implementation. MIT-X11-style license.
on 02023-06-02A #file-format converter, or really #font rasterizer, from #TrueType to #BDF, for #CircuitPython
on 02023-06-02the #PCF #font #file-format. Not a lot of great info on this page right now
on 02023-06-02a #PCF to #BDF #font #file-format converter
on 02023-06-02another tiny #font using LCD subpixels
on 02022-10-12Ken #Perlin designed a tiny #font using LCD subpixels
on 02022-10-12a 4×4 pixel #font
on 02022-10-12tile-based #font fonts under mostly #CC licenses (31000 of them)
on 02022-05-21#handwriting #calligraphy #font
on 02019-02-01#handwriting #calligraphy #font (link to public-domain archive.org book)
on 02019-02-01An Eclipse-Public-Licensed #font designed for readability (for airport cockpits) despite being sans-serif
on 02019-01-21the OCR-A public-domain #font is the standard “computery” font (that isn’t MICR)
on 02019-01-21Someone has made an OFL-licensed #font based on Library Hand #handwriting in FontForge
on 02017-02-24discussion of Library Hand #handwriting #font
on 02017-02-24Library Hand is a #handwriting #font developed for card-catalog records
on 02017-02-24Reddit comments on #Raph-Levien’s #font renderer #font-rs. Raph is /u/raphlinus.
on 02016-08-03comments on #Raph-Levien’s #font renderer #font-rs. Raph is raphlinus. #graphics
on 02016-08-03Sean Barrett explains how his #font rasterizer does #antialiasing #graphics with paraxial trapezoids and precise signed-area calculations.
on 02016-08-03#Raph-Levien lucidly explains how his new #font rasterizer "font-rs" in #Rust is the fastest (≈6× faster than FreeType). Among other things, he uses #SSE #prefix-sum to do the filling, and structures the parser as an iterator to avoid allocation. #graphics #performance
on 02016-08-03drawing a graffiti-like #font with #splines using the #method-of-differences.
on 02015-08-15