font history

Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de
Sun Mar 7 20:40:14 UTC 2004


Am 04.03.2004 um 22:39 schrieb Boris Gaertner:

> From: "Hans-Martin Mosner" <hmm at heeg.de>
>
>> 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...
>>
> To get that font, you may wish to look at this page:
> http://home.netsurf.de/helge.horch/squeak/cream.html
>

To make it even easier to play with this, I've registered the cream  
font at SqueakMap:
(The name is "FontSetCream")

http://map1.squeakfoundation.org/sm/package/d2e6dd07-9154-4c50-9291- 
db5b882a936b

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