Zuzana is an inspiration to all who are in the field of design work. She was freshly graduated from college and ended up becoming very successful developing fonts for Macintosh. Back in the day it must’ve been a bit of a struggle to make a bitmap font and make it look good. There are several examples where bitmap fonts look like garbage but hers all look very well rounded and from a distance almost don’t look like a few pixels! Her Lo-Res fonts are definitely my favorite, they aren’t sharp and despite being very low resolution, the pixel edges don’t appear jagged but almost smooth like a vector font. The Poster House exhibit submissions are also very nice, the bitmap fonts are a good contrast to the rest of the image it’s placed within and it flows nicely along with giving that nice 80s – early 90s feel
You’re smart to observe that it must have been a bit of a struggle to make bitmap fonts look good. Licko certainly played into and overcame the visual roadblocks.