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The monospace font reminds me of the console on old Sun workstations running SunOS. It's pretty hideous. The alphanumerics feel rather slapdash, like this who
by chrissnell 10y ago
The monospace font reminds me of the console on old Sun workstations running SunOS.
It's pretty hideous. The alphanumerics feel rather slapdash, like this whole thing was put together by the foundary on a Friday afternoon and made to meet the minimum requirements but without much love.
- fusiongyro 10y agoIt's easy to fix though. Just pour more Knuthian bullshit on it until the hackers think its flaws represent important aesthetic decisions. It was made by an important type foundry adhering to the strictest mathematical principles, after all!
- __david__ 10y ago> The monospace font reminds me of the console on old Sun workstations running SunOS. Yes! It really does: http://toastytech.com/guis/sv411boot.png http://toastytech.com/guis/sv411boot.png But I think it's mostly to do with the non-uniform line thickness (look at the asymmetry of the 'x'). To me it looks better than the SunOS font, but it certainly does resemble it. That's probably why it looks "old" to me, and not in a particularly nostalgic way. Then again, I didn't use Suns all that much.
- dbl9 10y agoI've actually been trying to find a PCF or TTF variant of that Sun font. If anyone can point me to it, I'd be grateful. Maybe in some folder of opensolaris or illumos?