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ELMO-8: Now With Fonts

Quick update: cute 8-bit fonts work in ELMO-8 now.

Thanks to WebGL Fundamentals for the correct matrix footwork (WebGL 2D Matrices).

I never bothered to get the correct font metrics, and I'm torn as to whether it's worth doing. I rather like the whimsical offsets characters have. (Basically the baseline is all off, so all the fonts render from the top.)

Now with 30% more love too

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