This reminds me of this beautifully written article about the font Gorton.<p><a href="https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/" rel="nofollow">https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201953">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201953</a>
Very cool! Hope you like this one ... about a font carved into a tree!!<p><a href="https://bjoernkarmann.dk/project/occlution_grotesque" rel="nofollow">https://bjoernkarmann.dk/project/occlution_grotesque</a>
Wow, I like the idea and how this was used as a photography arts project.
Also, I think this idea could be transferred to other materials, such as iron, or ice.
That’s really neat. Interesting watching them grow sideways
in the further reading there is also a list with a number of recreations of related digitzed routed fonts:
<a href="https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/recreations/" rel="nofollow">https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/r...</a>
Thank you! Great article, better than the actual submission I came for, super interesting and a pleasure to read
Thanks for sharing, wonderful article! Makes me wonder what using a bitmap Gorton in terminal would feel like… maybe I’ll try it today.
The old versions of VIC-20 used a font called Microgramma.<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1pjw7q6/the_vic20_trinity/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1pjw7q6/t...</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgramma_(typeface)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgramma_(typeface)</a>
Perhaps best known for being the basis for Eurostile, a staple of SF movie typography.
The PET models used this as well.
8BitDo made a modern mechanical keyboard that looks like a C64. I got one and I am loving it.
<a href="https://www.8bitdo.com/retro-mechanical-keyboard-c64/" rel="nofollow">https://www.8bitdo.com/retro-mechanical-keyboard-c64/</a>
><a href="https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/issues/4" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/issues/4</a><p>This saddens me, frankly.
The S is misproportioned. M should have the middle go all the way to the baseline. The middle stems on 3 and 4 are too long and too short. The punctuation is all different sizes. This is just me glancing at the normalized comparison image. It's really obvious.
It's an asshole issue, but at the same time the AI that did the work isn't going to have it's feelings hurt.
What a confused comment.<p>"There is no RETURN, SHIFT...", "Too many F keys". They are confusing a typeface with trying to replicate the keyboard keys.<p>The arrows are <i>not</i> the cursor keys, but based on the ESC key.<p>They are right about the @ character though, it looks quite wonky.
Why would keys with full words like shift/return/etc be useful in creating a font. Basic comprehension skills are at a loss for this user. The issue comment should have ended with the first sentence. However, could the keys with full words have been used to provide clues on kerning or other spacing to use when building the font?
If creatively expanded to more characters, this would make a pretty nice coding font.
Looks nice. The C-64 had an excellent keyboard typeface<p>I think peak keycaps font were the ones used in the Epson QX-10, Epson HX-20, Tandy 100, and the common C-64.
Oh gosh, this is really rather nice.
The special characters / punctuation are not aligned. The !#$% characters either float too high or need to be a little bigger.<p>(Yes, I copied the image from the page into Paint and drew a line)
thank you so much for this! love how this looks, it's such a clean typeface<p>EDIT: I kept getting problems downloading it--errors acting like nothing was there. After clicking around on the download links a few times, it eventually made it to my downloads and I got the file. Not sure what's going on there, but just a heads up for anyone else
We need one for the ZX Spectrum too!
"!" is like half of the size of "?". Even if that's faithful to the keyboard, it is very annoying.
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.
What, no Euro key?<p>(Yes, I realize the € symbol didn't exist until 1996)
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.
Good question! I've looked into this a bit myself and I think the best overall match is Akzidenz-Grotesk Condensed, albeit not exact: <a href="https://www.myfonts.com/products/condensed-regular-akzidenz-grotesk-996615" rel="nofollow">https://www.myfonts.com/products/condensed-regular-akzidenz-...</a><p>The G is different (look at the lower right corner), the 0 (zero) has a slash which looks custom, and the Q is very different (it looks like a letter O with a piece of another O added for the tail).<p>And yes, since it's the standard comment about fonts, this is a commercial font that costs an arm and a leg.
It looks too nice to have been drawn just for keycaps :(
Kind of ambivalent state of things, a research thread to solve that provenance
issue to some degree of certainty is always only one prompt away too.
A weird thing: the exclamation mark `!` seems to be elevated from the baseline, judging from the specimen.
But what font did the C64 keyboard originally use?
Dunno about the original C64 (which is what this attempts to recreate), but the C64C used ITC Avant Garde Gothic Pro Book according to <a href="https://github.com/FeralChild64/MechBoard64-keycaps" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/FeralChild64/MechBoard64-keycaps</a>
The download links seem broken, does anyone have the TTF?
<a href="https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/tree/main/fonts" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/tree/main/fon...</a>
Readme links to:
<a href="https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/blob/main/fonts/C64Keyboard-Regular.ttf?raw=true" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/blob/main/fon...</a>
Instead, it should be linked to:
<a href="https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/raw/refs/heads/main/fonts/C64Keyboard-Regular.ttf" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/raw/refs/head...</a>
I removed the querystring ?raw=true on the download link, and then clicked "view raw" and that worked.
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This is sweet but i could really live without the Claude commentary in the preview page
I love AI!
No umlauts?
Very nice - thank you!
Apple ][ please.<p>(Actually, I think the Commodore had a better font)
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