font history
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Thu Mar 4 20:52:23 UTC 2004
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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