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> It couldn't have been, because it was designed in 1986. It was possible to read on computer screens at the time.
by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> It couldn't have been, because it was designed in 1986.
It was possible to read on computer screens at the time.
- kibwen 2y agoYou wouldn't be using Computer Modern for reading on a Commodore 64 or Amiga 1000 of the era. The resolution of the displays was just too low, on OSes designed for bitmap fonts with no antialiasing or subpixel rendering. Here's the sort of font you'd be looking at, and their primitiveness is not because their designers liked the retro aesthetic: https://style64.org/c64-truetype https://style64.org/c64-truetype https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/675155/amiga_topaz https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/675155/amiga_topa...