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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.

download.damieng.com/fonts/con

@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

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

There's a video of it in action at lyonlabs.org/commodore/DiskWra

www.lyonlabs.orgCenbe's Commodore 64 Pages

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

@damieng @foone ...and bug-fixed! \o/ Downloading certain combinations of fonts would trigger a bug in the sector allocation routine and a Bad Thing would happen. Hopefully repaired.
lyonlabs.org/geofont/

www.lyonlabs.orggeoFont Reloaded!

@cenbe Great to see you on here, thanks for the links.

Looking forward to trying out your download tool, some really great bitmap fonts in there.