Apple’s Ancient Font Editor 2.0 App: Full Demo

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22 күн бұрын

A demonstration and walkthrough of Apple's Font Editor 2.0 app from 1984, which was available to developers directly from Apple along with other tools. This was the first font editor I used on a Mac back in 1984, and was the font editor that Zuzana Licko used to create her early Emigré fonts.
Links for this video:
Font Editor 2.0 on Macintosh Garden, which includes 400K and 800K disk images and a user's guide (written by me): macintoshgarden.org/apps/font...
Mini vMac: www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/do...
Fontastic Plus: macintoshgarden.org/apps/font...

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@Whammy413 18 күн бұрын

Seeing ResEdit again made me smile.

@lukedorny 19 күн бұрын

Fantastic. Also very happy that you’re here making videos, Mark. Heavy subscribe!!!

@marksimonson74 19 күн бұрын

Thanks, Luke! I've been meaning to do some videos here for a long time. More to come.

@TypographyGuru 19 күн бұрын

Fascinating stuff! Thanks! I think I stick with Glyphs though. ;-)

@marksimonson74 19 күн бұрын

Me too. 🙂

@QINGCHARLES 18 күн бұрын

Think about this. Font Editor 2.0 is practically unusable. Imagine how bad Font Editor 1.0 was... 😭

@marksimonson74 18 күн бұрын

The fact that 1.0 was never released publicly is a clue. I'm still curious how they made the first fonts, since it doesn't seem possible to make a font from scratch with FE 2.0. Maybe they came from an earlier tool for making fonts for the Lisa. I should look into how fonts worked on that platform. I mean, QuickDraw came from the Lisa, and according to Andy Herzfeld the earlier fonts on the Mac (before they were FONT resources) were "QuickDraw fonts."

@QINGCHARLES 18 күн бұрын

@@marksimonson74 Having made a lot of simple bitmap fonts in the 80s, I'm guessing they just did them all by hand the first time around? Just draw them on graph paper and then input all the rows one-by-one in hex, or draw them in a bitmap editor and have a little command-line convertor. I assume v1.0 is totally lost now? Do Apple have archives of this stuff that they release like Microsoft do?

@marksimonson74 18 күн бұрын

@@QINGCHARLES It's possible. I know a lot of early stuff was designed on graph paper, like the icons. I saw some of them at MOMA once. The FONT resource is partly a bitmap the height of the font with all the characters lined up in a row defining the width. You could do that on paper and work out the bytes to enter in a data structure.