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The point is the class made him care about typography and he pushed so Apple computers would have good-looking text. As opposed to Windows, which did not at th
by throwaway6436 10y ago
The point is the class made him care about typography and he pushed so Apple computers would have good-looking text.
As opposed to Windows, which did not at the time.
He wasn't claiming he invented decent fonts on a computer.
- kqr 10y ago> The point is the class made him care about typography and he pushed so Apple computers would have good-looking text. > As opposed to Windows, which did not at the time. And to a point, this is still true. It's surprisingly hard to get good text rendering in terminal emulators on Windows and Linux. I still have to settle for "good enough" rather than the "stellar" I can get on my OS X machine.