Re:IBM Plex Typeface (2018)
by thewebcount on Friday February 11, 2022 @11:38AM
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IBM had a really good font I liked circa 1991, and I'd love to be able to find it. Does anyone know what this font was? It was a serif font that was (I think) the default terminal font on the RS/6000 at the time. (Or at least it was on the machines we had at the University of Michigan.) The machine I used did not appear to be running XWindows. It looked like a terminal emulator to me. Anyone know what font that was? I think it may have been mono-spaced, but I'm not positive. I was using it for writing code.
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Re:IBM Plex Typeface (2018)
by theandrewbailey on Friday February 11, 2022 @11:39AM
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Maybe one of these? https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
Re:IBM Plex Typeface (2018)
by thewebcount on Friday February 11, 2022 @11:54AM
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Oh wow! Thanks for the link! I don't see it on there, but that list is for PC fonts, and this was a Unix workstation. I think it may have actually been antialiased, though I can't say for sure.
Any chance it was an IBM terminal? Looks like it was common for units like the 3151 to be connected to RS/6000 systems: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_3151_terminal.jp...
Re:IBM Plex Typeface (2018)
by thewebcount on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @12:29AM
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Doesn’t look like it. That’s a sans-serif font, and the one I’m looking for is a serif font.