Recent discussions on this list are about the problem getting fonts for typesetting before there was an industry to provide them. Noted font designer Chuck Bigelow has written about the subject here: Notes on typeface protection TUGboat 7(3) 146--151 October 1986 https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb07-3/tb16bigelow.pdf Other TUGboat papers by him and his design partner, Kris Holmes, might be of reader interest: Lucida and {\TeX}: lessons of logic and history https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb15-3/tb44bigelow.pdf About the DK versions of Lucida https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb36-3/tb114bigelow.pdf A short history of the Lucida math fonts https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb37-2/tb116bigelow-lucidamath.pdf Science and history behind the design of Lucida https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb39-3/tb123bigelow-lucida.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe(a)math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe(a)acm.org beebe(a)computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------