Tracing litt.chr: the ancient PCB font shows signs of vector quantization
m4rkmc · x · 2026-10-23
An archaeology of litt.chr, the ancient vector font shipped in Turbo Pascal and EAGLE and stored in an old BGI binary format. Rendering it with a quick visualization tool built via argon reveals repeated "pauses" near curves on the 3, B and & glyphs — possible evidence the font was quantized from a higher-resolution original, or just a bug. All that's known about its creator: her name was Lisa, and she worked at Borland.