Hershey Fonts – The original vector fonts

[NoLand]

@gtoal

Anyway the point was that Acorn had outline screen fonts out in a product before Apple or Microsoft were even talking about it in public.

Regarding Mac and what was available to the public, you needed Adobe Type Manager (ATM) for outline fonts on the screen until the arrival of TrueType in the early 1990s (System 7.1, I think?). Certainly not a contender for a “first!”.

[NoLand]

BTW, does anyone know anything about font rendering on the Star? It used Interpress for printing, but what was used for screen rendering?

[pmcjones]

I’m pretty sure it used bitmap fonts. That was definitely the case for the earlier Alto-based systems at Xerox.