Many years ago I experimented in drawing a font using straight lines on a computer graph plotter. When, years later, I learned of TrueType fonts and the way they are constructed, I decided to try to produce the effect of that font drawn with straight lines on a computer graph plotter using a TrueType font. The result uses closed loop contours.
The story is in the following thread.
The story starts about half-way through the third post in the thread. A straightforward way to find it is to go to the web page and search for the word “However”.
In use in present-day computer applications, the font looks as if it has been drawn using straight lines. Yet that is not the case as some of the lines are from being between two parts of the same contour and some of the lines are from being between two contours.
I hope that this helps.
William Overington
7 August 2008