README.txt

VT323
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Designer: Peter Hull
License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (see OFL.txt)
Styles: 1
Source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/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 Hunsrückisch 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.

This font is free to use, share and modify under its license.
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