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unjordy / LispM-Font

The Lisp Machine console font, converted to OTF, TTF, and WOFF.
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Preview picture? #1

Open daveloyall opened 7 years ago

daveloyall commented 7 years ago

How about a preview picture?

larsbrinkhoff commented 5 years ago

I'd like that.

larsbrinkhoff commented 5 years ago

The Knight TV system was in heavy use during the time the CONS and CADR were developed. I wonder if the LispM font was similar to the Knight TV font?

https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/Knight-TV-font

There's an organization here on GitHub for restoring the CADR hardware and software:
https://github.com/LM-3

CC @ams

ams commented 5 years ago

The fonts in that screenshot look very similar to the CPTFONT used on the CADR.

https://github.com/ams/cptfont/blob/master/screenshot.jpg

ams commented 5 years ago

You also have https://vcs.jethro.be/jethro/genera-fonts (previously: https://github.com/jethrovt/genera-fonts)

larsbrinkhoff commented 5 years ago

I recognize some of those fonts from AI memos, so I guess they were originally XGP fonts.

unjordy commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the interest! I'll generate a sample picture for the font soon -- any preferences on whether it should be a screen grab from a terminal window, or a more traditional font sample layout?

Huge thanks to both of you by the way for the lispm emulation and computer history preservation work. I've been working in CADR and LAMBDA emulators and digging around in AI mainframe dumps for a couple of years, trying to distill down what made lisp machines excellent development environments. A lot of that has influenced my little customized Linux distro Ocelot, which uses Emacs (with EXWM) as a UI layer, and builds on NixOS for everything else. It isn't in the most other-people-friendly state right now, but it's been very useful and I'm thinking I might move it to github soon and open it to other contributors.

larsbrinkhoff commented 5 years ago

A terminal window with some interesting commands would be my preference.

Many things in the CADR software are evolutions of ideas from ITS. Some Lisp code can be used on both the Lisp machines and Maclisp.

adlai commented 1 year ago

I believe this screenshot is of the exact same font:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070305171519if_/http://www.eurogaran.com:80/downloads/lispmfont/screenshot.jpg

ams commented 1 year ago

It is not. That is the Symbolics font.

faried commented 1 year ago

Here are two, the eurogaran font (FixedMediumLispm-13.pcf) in an xterm, and this repository's font in vscode: https://imgur.com/gallery/TQQxY8L

The vscode font size is 17.