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Subject: Re: public domain stroke fonts
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Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 16:56:34 EST
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From: Brian Reid <reid@Glacier>

Without seeing your fonts I couldn't say for sure, but almost all of
the current public domain fonts, both stroke and raster, come from the
Hershey Occidental Character Set, created by Allen V. Hershey. His
system and his fonts are written up in the journal @i[Computer Graphics
and Image Processing], Volume 1, 1972, pages 373-385.

There are also some fonts that are more or less in the public domain (I
am not sure of their legal status) that are often called the Berkeley
VFonts. These fonts came originally from the XGP printers at CMU,
Stanford, and MIT, and the fonts for them were in general created by
optical scanning of font catalogs at the low resolution of the XGP's.
Perhaps the best source of information about these fonts is the
Stanford AI Lab Operating Note 74, @i[Find a Font] by Les Earnest,
dated May, 1976. You will find almost all of the fonts from the
Berkeley distribution listed in this publication. I have no idea if it
is still available, but all of the fonts are still online at SAIL and
probably somewhere at CMU.