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title: "CRT Typography"
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date: 2025-02-08T08:19:22-08:00
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tags:
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- Typography
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- Retro Computing
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A fascinating [blog post][post] by Norbert Landsteiner about how the old DEC
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terminals (VT100, etc) rendered text. The glyphs in the terminal's ROM are
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pretty dramatically different from how they're actually rendered due to a
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vertical pixel doubling algorithm, and the physical effects of shooting
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phosphors with electron beams.
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[post]: https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/dec-crt-typography
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