Wow, thanks for that story and those details! Always exciting to hear about those times. Knuth also mentions this "worst day of my life" incident (without much

Wow, thanks for that story and those details! Always exciting to hear about those times. Knuth also mentions this "worst day of my life" incident (without much detail) in his Kyoto Prize lecture[1] and Web of Stories interview[2], and (with slight details similar to what you said) in his 2007 CHM Oral History.[3] Only loosely related: just a few days ago there was a historical article posted online[4] about the Digital Typography group at Stanford in the 1980s, where much of the collaboration happened that led to the final versions of those fonts. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190523200235/https://www.kyotoprize.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/12kA_lct_EN.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20190523200235/https://www.kyoto... or https://web.archive.org/web/20201111041445/https://www.kyotoprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/1996_A.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20201111041445/https://www.kyoto... — search for “burned with disappointment” [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wb9TEHkCI&list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzeNLngr1JqyQki3wdoGrCn&index=65 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wb9TEHkCI&list=PLVV0r6CmEs... [3] Pages 44–46, especially 46 at https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2013/05/102658053-05-01-acc.pdf#page=44&view=FitH,700 https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20... transcribing roughly 1:17:00 to 1:26:00 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqPPll3uDa0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqPPll3uDa0 [4] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2020.08.006 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2020.08.006 (I actually suspect that the author, from the Design program at the time, may have missed/misunderstood some details, but I'm not confident enough to say what exactly, if anything, is wrong.)