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1. Damien Guard (damieng@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 07:40:41 JST Damien Guard

   8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2024 Day 17

   Chylos

   GEOS is a massively underappreciated piece of computing history providing usable Mac-like UI on 8-bit machines with a fraction of the available power.

   It was also home to many great proportional and varied-sized bitmap fonts including this absolute gem found tucked away in a Glenn Holmer's "Cenbe Font Catalog" PDF.

   I couldn't find any information beyond this such as the designer.

   https://download.damieng.com/fonts/conversions/Chylos.zip

   #adventoffonts #bitmapfont #geos

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 07:41:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     @damieng I had a whole disk of "extra geowrite fonts" when I was a kid. I should see if I can find that, and extract all the Geos fonts

   • Damien Guard (damieng@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 06:17:20 JST Damien Guard

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     @foone He has a DiskWrangler tool that's good for exploring the contents of those disc images https://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/

     There's a video of it in action at https://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/DiskWrangler.mp4

   • Cenbe (cenbe@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 06:17:20 JST Cenbe

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     @damieng @foone There's also a web app that can explore over 1000 fonts:
     https://www.lyonlabs.org/geofont/
     It's about to be upgraded with the ability to download selected fonts on a disk image (final testing in progress):
     https://www.lyonlabs.org/temp/geofont-dlsize2.mp4

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 06:17:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Cenbe

     @cenbe @damieng oh awesome!