It’s an article about an early Mac game called Through the Looking Glass, and to quote the relevant section:
“Steve Capps, the Apple programmer who developed Through the Looking Glass […] also designed and drew the game’s two fonts, Alice-12 and Cartoon-12.”
A font from an early 1st-party Mac game made it (questionably?) onto some Mac shareware disks.
A programmer at EA found it, converted it, and included it with Deluxe Paint.
From there, it then appeared in a lot of other games whose artists used that program.
https://twitter.com/codeman38/status/1200243842521415681
#cartoon12 #deluxepaint #comix
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