Why vector graphics?

Acanthus as a bitmap

creating a bitmap font in Fontographer 4.1:

The first thing to try is perhaps simply to paste the picture into a new database in Macromedia's font-making programme Fontographer, and let it create a font from the little squares of colour it sees - pixels. In the screen-shot here, the smooth red lines are the original picture pasted in the background as a guide to the font-maker; the black dots are the pixels which determine what the font will display once it's been made.

the result used as a bitmap font at 255 pt.

There are indeed fonts that work like that, if less detail is needed: but even at 255 points, the largest size which some programmes can handle, the amount of detail represented in this way is far too little for the eye to make sense of this acanthus picture.

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