28 Apr
2016
28 Apr
'16
7:37 a.m.
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:19:43 +0100, Rod Smallwood wrote
But they built it out of circles and straight lines
and that's what I do.
That's superficially, but not exactly, true. Even the 'o' is not a perfect
circle, and you can't get close to replicating the 's' or the digits that
way.
I took a stab at replicating the 'classic dec' font about a decade ago, following
scanned DEC manuals wherever possible. I built up most of the basic ASCII set in
the outline form before suspending the project. (I suspect the solid form can
mostly be derived from paths through the middle of the outline strokes.) It did
get used a few years ago by our Jason T for some VCF Midwest graphics -
https://picasaweb.google.com/102190732096693814506/VCFMW50OfficialGraphics#…
2730455260610
I'm unlikely to continue the project any time soon, since I no longer own any DEC
gear of that era, so I will gather up my work in progress and make it available
under a suitably liberal license (probably Apache, which is one of the
'standards' in the font world) for anyone to continue.
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Kevin Schoedel <schoedel at kw.igs.net> VA3TCS