[Cuis-dev] Cream font from Xerox

Juan Vuletich JuanVuletich at zoho.com
Mon Apr 4 09:09:04 PDT 2022


On 4/1/2022 4:34 PM, Vanessa Freudenberg via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Just for a bit more context how important this font was in computing 
> history, in particular the birth of the Apple Macintosh:
>
> "Xerox aficionados will note the use of Cream 12 as our first system 
> font, which was the default font used by Smalltalk, that Bill had 
> converted to the Lisagraf font format."
>
> image.png
>
> Read more at
> https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Busy_Being_Born,_Part_2.txt 
> <https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Busy_Being_Born,_Part_2.txt>
>
> Vanessa

Nice read!

It is really interesting to see in 
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Busy_Being_Born.txt 
, how the initial Lisa UI was an exact copy of Smalltalk, and how it got 
different bit by bit until the Mac was released. I think that going to 
non-proportional scrollbar thums, and moving the menu bar to the top of 
the display were big mistakes.

Thanks,

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