In mid September 02013, a small team of talented programmers, designers and thinkers all got together to recreate the experience of browsing the web on the first popular web browser. We’ve written previously about the Line Mode Browser Dev Days.
As part of that process, Mark Boulton and myself teamed-up to attempt to recreate the original font used on the terminal screen. This would give the look and feel of the simulator even more of that green glowing cathode-ray tube warmth.
The process turned out to be a bit harder than expected. Our first problem was to try and find out if this was an already existing font. Sites like what the font couldn’t determine it, nor could a few internet searches for the model number. We then proceeded to try and find the font file on the file system. That would jump start our attempt to re-create it…
In mid September 02013, a small team of talented programmers, designers and thinkers all got together to recreate the experience of browsing the web on the first popular web browser. We’ve written previously about the Line Mode Browser Dev Days.
As part of that process, Mark Boulton and myself teamed-up to attempt to recreate the original font used on the terminal screen. This would give the look and feel of the simulator even more of that green glowing cathode-ray tube warmth.
The process turned out to be a bit harder than expected. Our first problem was to try and find out if this was an already existing font. Sites like what the font couldn’t determine it, nor could a few internet searches for the model number. We then proceeded to try and find the font file on the file system. That would jump start our attempt to re-create it…
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