font history

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Sat Mar 6 15:32:08 UTC 2004


Yes, to me, the problem with Cream was that it just wasn't as 
readable as the JOSS font, but I thought Bob did as well as could be 
done.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 9:57 PM -0800 3/4/04, Dan Ingalls wrote:
>Alan wrote -
>
>>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.
>
>I agree.  I never meant to be "down on" Cream at all.  I think it's 
>beautiful, and remarkable for being a mere pixel map (and small one 
>at that).  But it did have a certain mesmerizing effect.
>
>	- Dan


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