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		doomlaser on May 29, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Typography in 8 bits: System fonts (2011) A fun tangential fact about the original Macintosh's system font, Chicago: it was the typeface used by Squaresoft in most of their 16-bit era Super NES RPGS (Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, etc)

damieng on May 29, 2014 [–]

They modified the upper case characters to shave 1 pixel off the height tho - presumably to fit it in an 8x8.

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