![]() In fact, creating the font for Sinotype III-a machine developed by the Graphics Arts Research Foundation (GARF) in Cambridge, Massachusetts-took far longer than programming the computer itself. Without a font, there would be no way to display Chinese characters on screen, or to output them on the machine’s dot-matrix printer.įor each Chinese character, designers had to make 256 separate decisions, one for each potential pixel in the bitmap. (A bitmap is a way of storing images digitally-whether as a JPEG, GIF, BMP, or other file format-using a grid of pixels that together make up a symbol or an image.) Multiplied across thousands of characters, this amounted to literally hundreds of thousands of decisions in a development process that took more than two years to complete. ![]()
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