Dork Patterns: The Story of Little Character
summary
A vector font embedded in Eagle PCB files traces back through a Turbo Pascal compiler to 1980s Borland tooling, not a modern foundry claim, and it hid for over three decades before resurfacing. The team extracts vectors from Eagle, rebuilds missing diacritics (about 300 missing glyphs needed), releases it on GitHub and submits to Google Fonts, and a bold variant lands on Bella hardware — a recovered system font that actually works across DIY synths and PCB silks.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00The nature of dorks
- 3:27Defining the dorky obsession
- 6:34My professional dork life
- 12:22Obsession with a font
- 18:34Hunting the font's origin
- 22:30Uncovering the history
- 27:54Releasing Little Character
- 32:20The lasting impact of dorkiness
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