18 Jun
2015
18 Jun
'15
5:19 a.m.
On 18/06/2015 12:50, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
On Thursday, 18 June 2015, Jonathan Katz <jon at
jonworld.com> wrote:
No, it isn't. About 15 years ago I set out to recreate the necessary
letters and digits from the font for one of the PDP-11 sites. With some
small experience of font design I quickly realised it's quite different
There is a Postscript doc out there with the DEC "D I G I T A L" logo
in blocks. That may be a start.
http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200712/ancient_history_the_digital_logo.html
If I recall, isn't the logo "just" Helvetica? I think, not completely
sure. from Helevetica in a number of aspects, and it took me
a while to get it
right. In fact I'm not sure I got it exactly, but Ned
Batchelder did,
so I never went back to it. My early attempts at PDP-11 logos are at
http://www.dunnington.info/public/PDP-11/ if you want a laugh.
--
Pete
Pete Turnbull