font history

Duane Maxwell dmaxwell at san.rr.com
Fri Mar 5 06:46:18 UTC 2004


Actually, I think the only problem with it is the weight - the bold 
version is quite pleasant and legible.  It might be interesting to take 
the bold variant, clean up the spacing a little, make it the plain 
version, and try to make a bold variation of that.

-- Duane

On Mar 4, 2004, at 6:21 PM, Alan Kay wrote:

> Hi Tim --
>
> Actually, Bob Flegal's challenge was to somehow make a script font 
> that kind of looked slanted but was actually straight up. I though he 
> succeeded really well with this design.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> -----
> At 6:13 PM -0800 3/4/04, tim Rowledge wrote:
>> Boris Gaertner wrote:
>>
>>> To get that font, you may wish to look at this page:
>>> http://home.netsurf.de/helge.horch/squeak/cream.html
>>>
>> I remember seeing this page a long time ago but noticed something 
>> different this time; Dan's comment about the font  not really working 
>> because of the strong similarity between character shapes. Funnily 
>> enough I was taught handwriting (I'm not sure I can actually do that 
>> anymore...) in the italic style where one is strongly urged (read 
>> "beaten with a stick until until you do") to get the curves and lines 
>> identical.
>> A few small changes to 'cream' and it would make my old headmaster 
>> very happy...
>>
>> tim
>
>
> -- 
>




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