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by JdeBP 2093 days ago
That argument flounders on the fact that in the pre-VGA (more strictly pre-CGA) world boldface and blink did not change colours, either. There was a whole world of monochrome video terminals. And, furthermore, the fonts during the heyday of the home computer revolution were boldface in several cases, including the BBC Micro's graphics mode character set, even though they were smaller than 8 by 8.

* https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-sys...