Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!esquire!sbb
From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: colour fonts
Keywords: macintosh ii colour color fonts
Message-ID: <844@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 88 17:01:47 GMT
References: <3399@geaclib.UUCP>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Organization: DP&W, New York, NY
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In article <3399@geaclib.UUCP> rae@geaclib.UUCP (Reid Ellis) writes:
>All true, but this does not bely the fact that a Macintosh II can, indeed
>support colour fonts.  I have yet to see anyone use such, but the support
>is all there and well-documented in Inside Macintosh volume 5.  Has anyone
>else out there seen a colour Mac II font?  If not, where are they?

I've seen them, and although I can't imagine what use they really are,
they sure look pretty.

There was even one called "Stars and Stripes" or something that was
red, white, and blue (i.e., the top half was red, the middle white,
and the bottom blue).  Very neat.

Anit-aliasing is easily done this way, and I would assume that that
was part of the reason for putting in color support in the first place.
The anti-aliased fonts I saw on the Mac II were stunning.

I don't know how to get a hold of these fonts, but I could find out
if others are interested (it's been a while since I saw them).

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