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Re: Apple's ancient Macintosh Font Editor app
Also, here is a .zip with two disk images containing everything you need to run Font Editor on a real or virtual 128K/512K Macintosh. (Hopefully, Apple won't mind.) The 800K one is preferable, especi…4 -
Re: Apple's ancient Macintosh Font Editor app
Here is the Font Editor guide I promised... There are still some unanswered questions. Like, who wrote it? I would guess Bill Atkinson or Andy Hertzfeld. Atkinson is the only programmer at Apple who …6 -
Re: Apple's ancient Macintosh Font Editor app
For what it's worth, I've managed to solve all the mysteries of using Font Editor as much as I did when I used it in 1984. I'll be posting a user guide here and on vintage Mac sites soon.1 -
Re: Apple's ancient Macintosh Font Editor app
Incidentally, back in 2003 on Typophile, when I wrote about my "dream font editor," one of the things I wanted was a UI that combined the metrics window with the glyph edit window. We have …11 -
Apple's ancient Macintosh Font Editor app
I've been down a rabbit hole lately digging into an early Macintosh development tool called "Font Editor." This was the tool that (I assume) Susan Kare and Bill Atkinson used to create the …16
