These were made soon after I learnt about Blåmba, a Blåhaj-themed provider of content for retro phones running on GSM networks at Chaos Computer Club's events since 2023. There was a dire lack of Blåhaj among these 72x14 1bpp pictures ("operator logos") you can use on the home screen instead of the name of your phone carrier.
This is a follow-up to the previous post (follow link for more details) although I drew these about a month earlier.
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These were made soon after I learnt about Blåmba, a Blåhaj-themed provider of content for retro phones running on GSM networks at Chaos Computer Club's events since 2023. There was a dire lack of Blåhaj among these 72x14 1bpp pictures ("operator logos") you can use on the home screen instead of the name of your phone carrier.
This is a follow-up to the previous post (follow link for more details) although I drew these about a month earlier.
Nokia allowed people to receive 72x14, 1bpp pictures over a series of binary- or hex-encoded SMS messages, and have them show up instead of their carrier name on the home screen. In the 2000s, magazine ads and webpages would distribute them using premium-SMS.
This service, also featuring ringtones, games etc. has been revived, free of charge, by MtF hacker @Manawyrm@chaos.social of the Chaos Computer Club. You can go to Blåmba.de and download all kinds of content into your retro phone.
FF Network Font: Dutch type designer Max Kisman created this display FontFont in 1991.
The font is ideally suited for logo, branding and creative industrie...
Not CC, but it's not uncommon for font authors to gift licenses to individuals/groups. Also FWIW thats fairly cheap for a font from such a popular foundry, you can easily pay 4 figures for a set of weights of their more popular fonts.
Nokia allowed people to receive 72x14, 1bpp pictures over a series of binary- or hex-encoded SMS messages, and have them show up instead of their carrier name on the home screen. In the 2000s, magazine ads and webpages would distribute them using premium-SMS.
This service, also featuring ringtones, games etc. has been revived, free of charge, by MtF hacker @Manawyrm@chaos.social of the Chaos Computer Club. You can go to Blåmba.de and download all kinds of content into your retro phone.
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in reply to ChaoticNeutralCzech • • •Goddamn I love the typography of the CCC. I had a go at making it GIMP and it just looks so damn good
Does anyone know what font this is?
Also the Midi Wintergatan Marble Machine is pretty awesome
Blåmba! - Ringtones, Logos, J2ME games
blamba.deChaoticNeutralCzech
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in reply to tetris11 • • •FF Network Std Regular Font | Webfont & Desktop | MyFonts
www.myfonts.comChaoticNeutralCzech
in reply to FellowEnt • • •You are correct, thank you! This also shows I wasn't imagining the different "m" I used in "blamba.de".
Also, $42 for a font that a hacker group used widely (so it's presumably Creative Commons)?
FellowEnt
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in reply to merthyr1831 • • •They can! They are all licensed under CC0 (public domain dedication) and so are almost all of these
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