alt Hacker NewsA font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps
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The old versions of VIC-20 used a font called Microgramma.
https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1pjw7q6/t...
If creatively expanded to more characters, this would make a pretty nice coding font.
>https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/issues/4
This saddens me, frankly.
"!" is like half of the size of "?". Even if that's faithful to the keyboard, it is very annoying.
The special characters / punctuation are not aligned. The !#$% characters either float too high or need to be a little bigger.
(Yes, I copied the image from the page into Paint and drew a line)
We need one for the ZX Spectrum too!
A weird thing: the exclamation mark `!` seems to be elevated from the baseline, judging from the specimen.
What, no Euro key?
(Yes, I realize the € symbol didn't exist until 1996)
Nice. It never really occurred to me how different these are from 64C keycaps. I guess through our affinity for retro look, the original typeface ended up feeling more modern/current than the newer one.
It’s a very pleasant looking humanist sans. Now I’m wondering about the story of the original typeface – were the glyphs specifically designed for the keyboard? Seems more likely that some existing font was used.
The download links seem broken, does anyone have the TTF?
I love AI!
No umlauts?
Very nice - thank you!
Apple ][ please.
(Actually, I think the Commodore had a better font)
This reminds me of this beautifully written article about the font Gorton.
https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201953