London Pixel Typeface
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I was using a Macintosh emulator, and went to the first version of MacOS (before it was called MacOS). I opened MacDraw and found a font called London (one of only 7 available typefaces). I realized that it was removed after the fourth version (it lasted 2 years less 8 days). London was a pixel blackletter typeface, and I found it charming enough to make a "revival" of it. I just finished the revival, but there is very little information about it online other than passing mentions on Wikipedia and classifications. Does anyone have any information about it? Appended is what it looks like (my revival, which is 99% accurate)
I was using a Macintosh emulator, and went to the first version of MacOS (before it was called MacOS). I opened MacDraw and found a font called London (one of only 7 available typefaces). I realized that it was removed after the fourth version (it lasted 2 years less 8 days). London was a pixel blackletter typeface, and I found it charming enough to make a "revival" of it. I just finished the revival, but there is very little information about it online other than passing mentions on Wikipedia and classifications. Does anyone have any information about it? Appended is what it looks like (my revival, which is 99% accurate)
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This link has info about the designer and how she came to design the fonts:
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The page at Fonts In Use has some basic info, including links to Liverpool, which is a TrueType version made by Rebecca G. Bettencourt in 2011, and related pixel blackletter typefaces.
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