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That’s cool! But it’s clear he did not find the right font. What puzzles me when I look at the map screen from the movie is that there are two point sizes being
by tobr 7y ago
That’s cool! But it’s clear he did not find the right font. What puzzles me when I look at the map screen from the movie is that there are two point sizes being used. “San Francisco” and “Palo Alto” use crisp lettering with 5 pixel tall lowercase characters, while the rest of the labels are slightly larger with more clumsy and distorted shapes. Maybe they scaled them up a little with simple nearest neighbor scaling?
- throwanem 7y agoA 5-pixel x-height suggests the IIc's native font. I think the other labels might have been drawn pixelwise, because you're right, they're sized wrong and the letterforms are weird, e.g. the 'm' in 'Fremont', the 'a's in 'Hayward' - I think they're stretched 1 pixel in each dimension, but it doesn't look nearest-neighbor to me so much as hand-fitting to size. Perhaps they wanted to scale up all the labels to read better on screen, but found hand-drawing the upscaled versions to be unexpectedly time-consuming and decided to stop with a couple of them still drawn in the native font.
- Com60Score 7y agoHi I'm Max, this is my project. As you say the text sizes on the Map screen are inconsistent in the movie. I did wonder if this could be to do with image/lens distortion, either from the camera or the glass on the CRT. I considered drawing them out pixel by pixel to match the movie exactly but in the end I just settled for erasing the cap on the J in San Jose, so it would match the movie more closely. I'd love to know how they actually did it.