Cream was designed because I liked the documentation of JOSS at RAND 
very much and this showed the JOSS code in a "slight script" that was 
very pleasing to look at on paper. Cream was Flegal's solution to 
this desire using only 1-bit graphics, and it was pretty good. But, I 
think we all agreed after a while that it just wasn't subtle enough 
to be as easily readable as the more delicate RAND hand-done examples.

Cheers,

Alan

At 9:11 PM +0100 3/4/04, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:
>Alan Kay wrote:
>
>Cream was designed and constructed by Bob Flegal in our group at PARC.
>
>I still remember when I saw the first screenshots with the Cream 
>font in Smalltalk browsers and it gave me a tingly feeling up and 
>down my spine - at that time every computer font I was used to was 
>monospace and visually unpleasing, and this one was so totally 
>different. Although the release ST-80 image we used did not have the 
>font, the association still remained...
>
>Cheers,
>Hans-Martin


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