Comment Comment by wenc I wonder why so many of these earlier GUIs didn't seem to have gotten typography right?I remember Geoworks looking cool, but the typography was not great.Even worse were Apple Mac inspired GUIs like Digital Research's GEM Desktop. (which was the default interface in Ventura Publisher)https://winworldpc.com/product/gem/3xAmiga Workbench despite being ahead of its time, had poor typographyhttps://theamigamuseum.com/amiga-kickstart-workbench-os/work...Compare that to Apple System 6https://winworldpc.com/product/mac-os-0-6/system-6xThe only environment that came close to having decent typography (apart from Windows and OS/2) was DesqviewX but I don't know if I knew anyone who ran it.https://winworldpc.com/product/desqview/desqview-x-2x parent wenc 2 years ago
I remember Geoworks looking cool, but the typography was not great.
Even worse were Apple Mac inspired GUIs like Digital Research's GEM Desktop. (which was the default interface in Ventura Publisher)
https://winworldpc.com/product/gem/3x
Amiga Workbench despite being ahead of its time, had poor typography
https://theamigamuseum.com/amiga-kickstart-workbench-os/work...
Compare that to Apple System 6
https://winworldpc.com/product/mac-os-0-6/system-6x
The only environment that came close to having decent typography (apart from Windows and OS/2) was DesqviewX but I don't know if I knew anyone who ran it.
https://winworldpc.com/product/desqview/desqview-x-2x