Over the past few years, I kept bumping into something called Hershey fonts. After digging around, I found a 1967 government report by a fellow named Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey. Back in the 1960s, he ...

A scalable font made of point-to-point line segments. Like vector-based images, vector fonts are easily scaled but lack the hints and mathematically defined curves of outline fonts, such as Adobe Type ...

There is a huge variety of hardware out there with a font of some form or other baked into the ROM. If it’s got a display it needs a font, and invariably that font is stored as a raster. Finding these ...