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in the text modes of old computers, there isn't anything to separate one character from those next to it, so that space has to be in the character itself.
by lloda 3y ago
in the text modes of old computers, there isn't anything to separate one character from those next to it, so that space has to be in the character itself.
- kragen 3y agonot just text modes or old computers but literally anything made of pixels
- charcircuit 3y agoThe font can just encode how many pixels for kerning that it wants. There is no reason for it to be part of the character itself
- kragen 3y agoit was pretty common for font roms to have implicit spacing pixels in between characters in order to save on rom space