diff --git a/content/blog/2025/crt-typography.md b/content/blog/2025/crt-typography.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..120f551 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2025/crt-typography.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +title: "CRT Typography" +date: 2025-02-08T08:19:22-08:00 +tags: + - Typography + - Retro Computing +--- + +A fascinating [blog post][post] by Norbert Landsteiner about how the old DEC +terminals (VT100, etc) rendered text. The glyphs in the terminal's ROM are +pretty dramatically different from how they're actually rendered due to a +vertical pixel doubling algorithm, and the physical effects of shooting +phosphors with electron beams. + +[post]: https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/dec-crt-typography