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Another interesting historical font I stumbled upon recently is Simplex Roman, designed in 1967 by Dr. A. V. Hershey for vector-based rendering on early CRTs. It still looks remarkably pleasant today: http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/hershey/

OpenType conversions: https://github.com/scruss/AVHershey-OTF/tree/master/otf

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I've used the Hershey fonts in several projects and they look really good.

MicroPython code to write using Hershey fonts a LCD Display: https://github.com/russhughes/ttgo-hershey-fonts

MicroPython based robot that draws using Hershey fonts: https://github.com/russhughes/turtleplotbot3

I've been toying around with adding text to the EtchArtDuino and turning it into a "typewriter" or serial terminal. https://github.com/russhughes/EtchArtDuino

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