Long ago in a time when personal and office technology was just coming to the fore, L and I founded a little company called Jones Technologies, Inc. It is a story for another time to mention what it is called now. Needless to say it was small then and isn’t now.
We started the company about the time the first laser printers with {*gasp*} built in fonts were coming to market. But, …, nothing was standardized and no two printers had the same way of calling the fonts and using them, so they were pretty much a useless novelty. A client of mine had me create a program to set the fonts in a particular line of lasers as a sales tool. This was back in the days of MS-DOS before Windows was even a gleam in anyone’s eye, so you ran my program and then your word processor to print and automagically you had the graceful fonts (but only one font for the whole page, etc …). It was a resounding success for the client as a sales tool at the time.
In playing around that year, I decided to make what, for the time, was an impressive demo. Using FatLips (yes, I named the program FatLips internally – it was a play on the printer brand and a certain movie of the time), I created this: