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Bedstead – MODE 7 for the 21st century edit / delete

A nice vector version of the BBC Micro's Teletext font. The code to produce it is pretty neat -- it interpolates from a bitmap font, so you could try throwing other things at it...

to bbc bbc-micro fonts retrocomputing teletext ... on 27 February

googlefontdirectory - Download Google Web Fonts - Google Project Hosting edit / delete

All of them. Handy.

to fonts ... on 15 October 2011

Treatise on Font Rasterisation edit / delete

Good overview of what you need to do to get font rendering reasonably correct. The lesson, approximately, is that most of the suite gets it right by default these days.

to fonts graphics rendering text ... on 29 May 2011

infinality.net edit / delete

Assorted patches for freetype. This would presumably be more useful if I didn't find hinting so unpleasant.

to fonts freetype hinting ... on 21 March 2011

OSP-foundry edit / delete

More free fonts. They're working on a DIN font.

to fonts ... on 07 January 2011

DIN 1451 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia edit / delete

The ubiquitous 20th-century German industrial typeface. (Ignore the FF DIN redrawn version; it's not nearly as nice as the original.)

to fonts german industrial typography ... on 20 November 2010

Typefoundry edit / delete

Impressively well-written blog on the history of typography.

to fonts history printing retrotech typography ... on 14 November 2010

The League of Moveable Type edit / delete

Fonts, some nice.

to fonts ... on 03 April 2010

Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font edit / delete

to fonts retrocomputing terminal ... on 28 November 2009

Unicode Font Guide For Free/Libre Open Source Operating Systems edit / delete

A list of (mostly) free fonts.

to fonts ... on 06 August 2007