Proportional font?

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Jun 14, 2017, 7:27:33 PM6/14/17

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Making the rounds on Twitter this afternoon are these old photographs of a variable-width font, "Two Bit Gothic Proportional Condensed," and a later Information Appliance-designed version. The former is from Digibarn:

http://www.digibarn.com/friends/jef-raskin/slides/user-interfaces/A%20-1207.jpg

But the latter I haven't seen before:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCTyHEFUMAEnQQx.jpg

Twitter responses suggest the former was designed for "Burrell Smith’s original 6809-based Mac board, which had a 256x256 display," but I haven't seen the latter on a Swyftcard or a Cat, anyone know anything else about it?