Collaborate Disseminate
Over the past few years, I kept bumping into something called Hershey fonts. After digging around, I found a 1967 government report by a fellow named Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey. …read more Continue reading Hershey Fonts: Not Chocolate, the Origin of Vector Lettering
Flat panel TVs have spoiled us. It used to be that a big display took up a lot of room on your desk or living room because of the depth of the CRT’s electron gun. We wonder what the designers of the charactron would think if they could see our big flat screens today. Never heard of a charactron? Check out [uniservo’s] video of one of these old character display tubes.
You might think the device is just a simple small CRT. However, it is much stranger than that. Inside the tube was a stencil that contained all the characters …read more
