[GreenKeys] TTY font and cloth ribbon appearance

[Eric Scace K3NA]

   Perhaps my original design decision wasn't clear.  These questions were rhetorical, as an illustration of the complexities that
one starts to encounter if one wants to emulate cloth ribbon appearance.

   I do not intend to emulate cloth ribbon appearance, either in a paper print or on the screen, at any size.  The project is
complicated enough as it is!

-- Eric K3NA

-----Original Message-----
From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of John Foust
Sent: 2004 July 29 20:04
To: GreenKeys
Subject: RE: [GreenKeys] Teletype Corp archives, museum


At 06:11 PM 7/29/2004, Eric Scace  K3NA wrote:
>  The variations from the black intensity of a ribbon also fall apart as soon as one starts to scale the font to any other size
>than that used on Teletype machines.  Does one scale up/down those ribbon thread-level variations?  Or leave them at the original
>spacing of a real ribbon?

I think you'd want to make it look right at the original
font size, as measured on paper when printed on conventional
600 to 120 DPI laser printers.

If someone wants to print it larger, they're probably doing it
on purpose to achieve the look of magnified Teletype text.
There was no other size for real TT fonts, right?  Did they
ever make printers with larger font sizes?

As for screen fonts, at today's resolutions you wouldn't be
able to reproduce much of the fuzz.

- John

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