From 2f9e7d88612d9277828286a45b4956b9ecf78007 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Schweikhardt Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:58:56 +0200 Subject: Determined the designer: Vaughan Pratt. --- README.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 300f7c0..cbed948 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -349,6 +349,18 @@ The makes it likely it was acquired between 4.3BSD and [4.4BSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Berkeley_Software_Distribution#4.4BSD_and_descendants). +After asking in the usenet newsgroup comp.sys.sun.hardware&emdash;16 +years after Sun was acquired by Oracle people *do* lurk +there&emdash;some helpful soul reached out to me with links to [the +openboot gallant +font](https://github.com/openbios/openboot/blob/master/obp/pkg/termemu/gallant.fth) +and a PDF titled [From the Valley of Heart's Delight to the Silicon +Valley: A Study of Stanford University's Role in the +Transformation](http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/97/1579/CS-TR-97-1579.pdf) +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. + ## Remarks Codepoints 0 through 31 contain glyphs of the VT100 line-drawing -- cgit v1.2.3