Calling all typographers
    Rod Smallwood 
    rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com
       
    Thu Apr 28 07:19:43 CDT 2016
    
    
  
Hi Guys
              DEC did some interesting things when it came to fonts on 
front panels.
Take an 8/e front panel  for example.  the address is kind of a chalet font.
But they built it out of circles and straight lines and that's what I do.
Then they bunch up the characters until they touch or nearly touch. 
(kerning?)
I'd like to recover the DEC fonts and have looked at several font 
creator/editors.
Frankly they are dung.  Every fancy curve there is but not a straight 
forward line and circle method of  creating lower case characters
as DEC did it.  I do need the ability to enter (or import)  the lower 
case characters using just circles and lines.
I then need to do the usual font type things like different font sizes, 
bold, and character spacing from zero (touching) to miles apart.
Suggestions please
Rod (Panelman) Smallwood
    
    
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