Font for DEC indicator panels

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Tue Nov 13 07:54:18 CST 2018



> On Nov 13, 2018, at 8:42 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> On Nov 13, 2018, at 12:11 AM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> ...
>> In Noel's case the originals are probably not at hand, so there is obviously no choice but to
>> recreate them. I can't help with the font but it makes me think of the curved font on the front
>> of the PDP-11 consoles and in the handbook where the lowercase t has a different length depending
>> on whether it is in or at the end of a word.
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>> Steve.
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> I'm not sure if attachments work... if yes, here is my attempt at that font.  I can post the FontForge source also if there is interest.
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> Some of the letters are made up because I didn't have an actual example, the x is one.  Most are taken from DEC documents.
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> 	paul

Ok, so attachments don't work.  I'll take a look at Github.

	paul



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