FONT NAME question

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org>
Date: Mon May 24 07:30:21 1999

> >From what I can gather it must be something very much like ARIAL but
> with a bit more rounded features and the absence of a slant-end on
> the top of the 't'
>
> Maybe you could make it yourself with a tt-font-editor. taking one
> of the ARIAL-fonts as a starting point.
>
> Sipke de Wal
>
>
> Chuck McManis wrote:
> >
> > Anyone know the name of the font used in the old "d|i|g|i|t|a|l" logo? I'm
> > trying to reconstruct it (I've found a couple of gif files but I'd really
> > like line art) for reproduction. Compaq is squashing this logo fast so
> > seeing it is getting harder and harder!
> >
> > --Chuck
>
>

The original Blue with white letters DEC logo from 1981 was just
Helvetica (reversed to get the letter block look ).

When they went to maroon they tricked around the letter kerning a bit.

Bill

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