.PHONY: experimental
experimental: bedstead-chiseltip.otf bedstead-plotter-thin.otf \
bedstead-plotter-light.otf bedstead-plotter-medium.otf \
- bedstead-plotter-bold.otf
+ bedstead-plotter-bold.otf plotter.png
bedstead.sfd: bedstead
./bedstead > bedstead.sfd
</head>
<body>
<h1><img alt="Bedstead" src="title.png"/></h1>
- <p>Bedstead is an outline font based on the characters produced by the
+ <p>Bedstead is a family of outline fonts based on the characters
+ produced by the
Mullard SAA5050 series of Teletext Character Generators. The
SAA5050 is familiar to those of a certain age as the chip that
produced the <code>MODE 7</code> display on the BBC
is used by
<a href="http://zapping.sourceforge.net/ZVBI/">ZVBI</a>.</p>
+ <h2>Stroked fonts</h2>
+ <p>In addition to the outline fonts described above, there are
+ some others that use a slightly different approach.
+ These use the smoothing algorithm to construct a skeleton of
+ each glyph, and then stroke that skeleton using a variety of
+ pens.</p>
+ <p>The Bedstead Plotter family consists of fonts stroked with
+ a round nib, while Bedstead Chiseltip is the surprisingly
+ calligraphic consequence of stroking the skeleton with a
+ tilted rectangle.</p>
+
+ <p><img alt="[ Stroked fonts ]" src="plotter.png"/></p>
+
<h2>Copyright</h2>
<p>The program that generates Bedstead and all of the
newly-designed glyphs have been released into the public domain.</p>
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