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Who designed the gallant font?

From Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net>
Newsgroups comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject Who designed the gallant font?
Date 2025-08-27 19:33 +0000
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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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Who designed the gallant font? Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2025-08-27 19:33 +0000
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