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  • Who designed the gallant font?

    From Jens Schweikhardt@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 27 19:33:14 2025
    hello, world\n

    I'm digging into the history of the gallant 12x22 font that was used
    as the console font for many SUN products. Think "ok" prompt. I know
    it from watching SPARCstations boot.
    While it at some point made its way into BSD, as evidenced by NetBSD's https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/sys/dev/wsfont/gallant12x22.h,
    I asked Jef and he guesses it was designed by someone at Sun.
    Any old Sun engineers around who can contribute a little bit of
    history of the gallant font and associated files?

    Regards,

    Jens
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