{"id":6302,"date":"2011-04-26T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/typography-in-8-bits-damien-guards-love-of\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T00:56:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T00:56:39","slug":"typography-in-8-bits-damien-guards-love-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/typography-in-8-bits-damien-guards-love-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6302 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/typography-in-8-bits-damien-guards-love-of\/attachment\/6303\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"51\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tumblr_lijhky8Jmn1qzxaqho1_540-150x51.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/damieng.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/20\/typography-in-8-bits-system-fonts\" target=\"_blank\">Typography in 8 bits<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Damien Guard&rsquo;s] love of typography originated in the 80\u2032s with the golden years of 8-bit home computing and their 8\u00d78 pixel monospaced fonts on low-resolution displays.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s quite easy to find bitmap copies of these fonts and also scalable traced TTF versions but there\u2019s very little discussion about the fonts themselves.\u00a0Let\u2019s remedy that by firing up some emulators and investigating.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typography in 8 bits [Damien Guard&rsquo;s] love of typography originated in the 80\u2032s with the golden years of 8-bit home computing and their 8\u00d78 pixel monospaced fonts on low-resolution displays. It\u2019s quite easy to find bitmap copies of these fonts and also scalable traced TTF versions but there\u2019s very little discussion about the fonts themselves.\u00a0Let\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/typography-in-8-bits-damien-guards-love-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6304,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302\/revisions\/6304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}