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  Who designed the gallant font? Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2025-08-27 19:33 +0000
    Re: Who designed the gallant font? Buzz McCool <buzz_mccool@yahoo.com> - 2025-10-08 10:55 -0700
    Re: Who designed the gallant font? OrangeFish <OrangeFish@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-09 20:38 -0400

#970 — Who designed the gallant font?

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
-- 
Jens Schweikhardt https://www.schweikhardt.net/
SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)

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#971

On 8/27/2025 12:33 PM, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> 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

Ask Mitch Bradley wmb@firmworks.com
https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware

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#972

On 2025-08-27 15:33, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> 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

A correspondent, whose permission to name I do not have, found the 
following:

Gallant was designed by Vaughan Pratt.

http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/97/1579/CS-TR-97-1579.pdf
Appendix A: The Founding of Sun Microsystems

Also mentioned in
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.sun.hardware/c/DgC4DFa4uro/m/NOZNtIyy9XIJ

"That big font in the PROM monitor, I did that in April 1982 too,
started out doing it by hand on graph paper until I realized I'd finish
a lot sooner if I wrote a font editor first (pretty trivial editor,
involved about three hours work but it saved several days of messing
with graph paper). I called the font Gallant because it sounded like a
font name."

The OBP description is here: 
https://github.com/openbios/openboot/blob/master/obp/pkg/termemu/gallant.fth

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