There is a huge variety of hardware out there with a font of some form or other baked into the ROM. If it’s got a display it needs a font, and invariably that font is stored as a raster. Finding these ...

A scalable font made of point-to-point line segments. Like vector-based images, vector fonts are easily scaled but lack the hints and mathematically defined curves of outline fonts, such as Adobe Type ...

In the first of this 'FOSS v proprietary' series we looked at some of the best software for editing and manipulating bitmap images. With digital photography such programs replace the earlier darkroom ...