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by Peter Hull 0 downloads TTF · 45 KB
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About VT323

This font was created from the glyphs of the DEC VT320 text terminal, which I used in college, and for which I have retained an unaccountable nostalgia.

I used a variety of tools, including Gimp, Python/PIL, and of course, FontForge. The VT320 glyphs were designed with a nonrectangular pixel aspect ratio to fit the way the terminal scanned the CRT, so for this VT323 variation I had Python munge the locations and attempt to emulate the way the electron beam actually illuminated the phosphor and smeared the pixels horizontally on the terminal's CRT, so it looks more like what the actual glyph looked like on the screen. Python then drew the proper pixels into a 1:1 pixel grid as a monochrome PNG, which FontForge autoscanned into outlines. I have attempted to support most of the glyphs available on the VT320, but that is a limited set to begin with, so please don't be disappointed that I haven't supported Esperanto or Riograndenser Hunsr�ckisch or whatever.

There is another earlier variation called "VT321" that uses a more standard 1:1 pixel drawing technique, if you want to grab that as well. I personally like VT323 better, and actually use it as my terminal font when cruising on the command line.

VT323 by Peter Hull is a free font in TTF format, downloaded 0 times on FontCart. The download is a 45 KB ZIP with 3 files. Use the type tester above to try it with your own words, or check every character below before you download.

Licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1: free for personal and commercial use. Read the license. Originally published on Google Fonts.

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  • VT323/VT323-Regular.ttf 150 KB

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