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@@ -361,6 +361,17 @@ by Carolyn Tajnai which in Appendix A reveals as the designer of the Gallant font no one less than Stanford professor Vaughan Pratt, who also designed the iconic Sun logo. +In an [article in comp.sys.sun.hardware (Oct 11 +1995)](https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.sun.hardware/c/DgC4DFa4uro/m/NOZNtIyy9XIJ) +Vaughan Pratt provides this anecdote how Gallant came to be: + +> [...] That big font in the PROM monitor, I did that in April 1982 too, +> started out doing it by hand on graph paper until I realized I'd finish +> a lot sooner if I wrote a font editor first (pretty trivial editor, +> involved about three hours work but it saved several days of messing +> with graph paper). I called the font Gallant because it sounded like a +> font name. + ## Remarks Codepoints 0 through 31 contain glyphs of the VT100 line-drawing |