29 Jun
2015
29 Jun
'15
12:36 p.m.
On Jun 29, 2015, at 3:19 PM, Toby Thain <toby at
telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
On 2015-06-29 1:26 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
(like the
a from Paris 1980 but the k from Paris 1970) you can get
closer. But that?s not plausible,
I worked in graphic design for a long time. Modifications and substitutions of any kind
are not unusual in a logo. So yes, it's plausible, but just annoying when reverse
engineering it later, of course.
For a logo, absolutely. For a house style typeface used as display text in manuals and
for panel labels, not quite so likely.
On Jun 29, 2015, at 11:26 AM, Toby Thain <toby
at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
...
There's reason to believe it's "Chalet". See my previous mail for a
link to one revival of that family.
I looked at that. There are plenty of variations, but none of them match at all. Take a
look at the 11/45 processor handbook, or the peripherals handbook (for example the 1976
edition). The inside cover page is particularly helpful because it shows the company name
for an additional bunch of characters.
If you mix & match letters from all the different variants of Chalet ...
This *could* be due to differences betwen the House revival and the original Chalet font.
The next research step could be to find specimens of the latter.
Or perhaps it was indeed a "custom font" as you said earlier, "based
on" Chalet or something like it, with variant letters cherry picked. That explanation
might satisfy everyone. :) I think it's pretty unlikely that a font will be discovered
that is a better match than Chalet out of the box, though.
Perhaps. I think the similarities are faint enough that I would not point to Chalet any
more than I would point to Avant Garde. Designed from scratch by a guy with a set of
drafting tools seems more likely to me. But unless someone with first hand knowledge
comes along, as was done for the 7-block digital logo, all this will likely remain
speculation.
Meanwhile, if you want a font file that?s a better match than Chalet, try the ?handbook?
font I created some years ago from the DEC document samples I have on hand.
paul