On 2015-06-29 1:26 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jun 29, 2015, at 11:26 AM, Toby Thain <t...@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
On 2015-06-29 10:59 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jun 28, 2015, at 6:34 PM, simon <sim...@dds.nl> wrote:
It seems to me that pdp8 is written in futura bold
Where? In the picture that Bill posted, you can see what I think is
a
dec custom font in labels like “industrial 11” and “power supply".
That’s the same font that was used on the covers of pdp-11 handbooks,
and as far as I know it’s something DEC made up. I traced it and turned
it into a TrueType font some years ago. Here it is. Some of the letters
are guesses because I have no samples.
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
(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.
and in any case it’s still not the
same. The k in Paris 1970 is somewhat like the one in the DEC font, but
it is clearly not a match: the DEC k has arcs starting at the vertical
line, while in Paris 1970 there’s a bit of a horizontal line first. And
none of the variants have the r in “processor” or either of the two
version of the t in “digital equipment corporation”.
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.
--Toby
paul
