font history

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Sat Mar 6 15:32:09 UTC 2004


Or go back to the JOSS documentation and make a font from it.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 10:46 PM -0800 3/4/04, Duane Maxwell wrote:
>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
>>
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>>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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