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#551251 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. -- Kevin Schoedel <schoe...@kw.igs.net> VA3TCS
