Why do hardware companies release fonts? It’s not snark, I am legitimately curious. Is it marketing, branding, something else?
Did Papyrus represent the Avatar brand?
DID PAPYRUS?!
As iconic a moment as the creation of the first sans serif font [2].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
[2] "The earliest printing typefaces which omitted serifs were not intended to render contemporary texts, but to represent inscriptions in Ancient Greek and Etruscan. Thus, Thomas Dempster's De Etruria regali libri VII (1723), used special types intended for the representation of Etruscan epigraphy, and in c. 1745, the Caslon foundry made Etruscan types for pamphlets written by Etruscan scholar John Swinton." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif#:~:text=The%20earli....
This thread made me finally look up its origins which are a bit interesting.
https://ew.com/tv/2017/12/19/snl-writer-julio-torres-avatar-...
Even the ones that don't have a display may have printing on them, from part numbers and serial numbers to instructions and warnings.
Intel produces and awful lot of software; they clearly are hardware-first, not hardware only.