27 Feb
2009
27 Feb
'09
12:02 a.m.
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:36:20 -0600
From: jules.richardson99 at gmail.com
To:
Subject: Re: PDP PDF's !
Rich Alderson wrote:
I believe that discussion was had on here a few years ago (and reached the
same conclusion) - although my memory's not telling me whether it was about
the -5 or one of the later machines...
For what its worth, my knowledge of computer font history
The Hershey fonts
This guy did these for the navy, and maps (correct me on this)
This was a deck we all had and were going hog wild with fortran plotting
originally for plotters or vector graphics, yet I recognize these fonts in software today
for schematic capture as the exact same (Cadence Concept)
Knuth wrote an article or two in early Dr. Dobbs, about his METAFONT and how he added some
randomization capability to make the fonts look more human.
His computer modern typeset is instantly recognizable in any academic textbook.
Anybody interested in computer typesetting needs a shelf of TeX, Latex, metafont books
from Donald E. Knuth and Leslie Lamport
Randy
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Are there
any font historians in the audience? I'm curious what the
serif font is that DEC used back then (both on the "Digital Equipment
Corp" logo on the PDP-5, for example, and in the brochure for the
PDP-5). I'm also curious what the sans serif font is that's rendered
in color and used for headers and such in the PDP-5 brochure. To me,
at least, it really evokes a sense of the period these flyers were
designed in.
It is very likely not a typeface (a font is a package of cast metal type)
but a lettering design by an in-house artist at or hired by DEC. That's
how corporate identities are done. Or so my press-owning friends tell me.