Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "History of the graphical user interface" in English language version.
[…] in 1987, the UK-based company Acorn Computers introduced their […] GUI, called "Arthur", also was the first to feature anti-aliased display of on-screen fonts, even in 16-color mode!
[ArcDraw] can also add text in multiple sizes and fonts to a drawing (including anti-aliased fonts)
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)Admittedly it wasn't until RISC OS Select was released, almost 10 years later, that the standard Acorn applications (Draw, Edit, and Paint) implemented the style guide's clipboard recommendations, but most products followed it with care.
Many of the UI concepts that we take for granted were first pioneered in RISC OS, for instance: scalable anti-aliased fonts and an operating system extendable by 'modules', while most of the PC world was still on Windows 3.0.
[…] it was RISC OS that had the first system-wide, intricate […] font rendering in operating systems.
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Only with Mac OS X did any mainstream graphical interface provide the smoothly rendered, fractionally spaced type that Acorn accomplished in 1992 or earlier.
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