About LTR Python Robot

RobotFonts are based on a bitmap font called Python-Sans, an original design by Just van Rossum. We (Just + Erik) developed code that takes the bitmap shapes from Python-Sans, interprets them and then draws new shapes in a different font. The new shapes do not necessarily look like the bitmap that inspired them. The program that translates the bitmap to an outline is the filter. One approach followed the edge of the bitmapped shape; another responded to the pixels and their position relative to each other. After making one font the filter was discarded: it had done its job. Fifty unique fonts.