A 'good-enough' H960 |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| PDP11 masthead replica

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Sat Jul 11 10:18:52 CDT 2015


> On Jul 10, 2015, at 8:21 PM, steven at malikoff.com wrote:
> 
> ...
> Paul: thanks for John's Handbook Truetype font. I've looked at it and (for me) the kerning is not quite right even when using the narrow 't'
> (0054, or ALT + keypad 83) also on other characters. To get the proper representation for the panel I would need to convert the TTF word string
> to an image or SVG path, shuffle the characters to the correct spacing and then reimport it. So I'll stick with what I have for this. His 's' is
> far better than mine though - I'll work on that.

It’s mine, actually; John provided the storage.

Thanks for the feedback, I’ll see if I can fix that.  I created that font many years ago using CorelDraw, which has a very primitive export-to-TTF feature.  In particular, no kern support at all.

	paul



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