@nina_kali_nina by the way ...

the work that went into joining lowercase characters in Script font was INSANE

The curriculum had this until nearly 1990 at which point "cursive joining" was less of a mandatory thing … actually on second thoughts there's a few differences, because we had a "p" that looked like an "h" so to allow the carryon line to join. And their "h" and "l" have loops in it.

But the 'w' and 'u' and 'v' — the real head-busters when you saw them all joined together — those look EXACTLY the same as what we did. If you know what to look for, there's a minimal viable difference: I typed fffsmnwuvvv

#typology #cursive #fonts #script #1980s #handwriting #vector #windows2

@nina_kali_nina That @ sign is not so much a circle, as a hexadecagon

I even found curly quotes! Singular quotes, though. Very hard, you needed to remember 0145 and 0146, which of course I do

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@nina_kali_nina Do you see the fonts named 'Roman', 'Modern', or 'Script'?

You wouldn't believe (actually, you would) how hard these are to google.

Anyway they're a dumpster fire but they totally work … if you are into non-intersecting polygons. This is when Adobe Type Manager was hella expensive, and TrueType was a liberating dream coming soon, from two enemies joining forces f.f.s.finally.

BTW, yes this screenshot is from Windows 3.0 Runtime (or something like that … CONTROL.EXE not found haha) but they are the fonts that Windows 3 inherited, I swear

#Windows2 #Windows3 #outlinefonts #Modern #Roman #Script

Your assumed knowledge — if you got left behind in the 1990s, here's what you missed.

I did like that question mark icon — it was kind of friendly and confident. Windows arrow, you're drunk.

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Alt+Escape continues to be weird one — not Ctrl+Escape — that basically switches apps immediately to this day; but before the Start Bar and Dock, this was just a way to rearrange the egg-form of your running applications.

Today's Alt+Escape is a little bit like Cmd-` (backtick) on Mac, except that's for rotating within apps

#Windows2

Behold, the origin of Alt-Tab

It's really grown a lot in 40 years

#appswitcher #alttab #Windows2

Did you know Alt+F4 had friends?

#Windows2