These are absolutely beautiful! However, I think I often feel that when looking at fonts somebody has shared online, which makes me wonder how much I love the font, vs how much I just like the design aesthetic of people that craft fonts.
Also I understand why only the uppercase version is given, but it does pretty much preclude me from using the font, since 95% of the letters I type are lowercase
tniemi
The old versions of VIC-20 used a font called Microgramma.
If creatively expanded to more characters, this would make a pretty nice coding font.
gwbas1c
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)
sombragris
Looks nice. The C-64 had an excellent keyboard typeface
I think peak keycaps font were the ones used in the Epson QX-10, Epson HX-20, Tandy 100, and the common C-64.
zooweemama
We need one for the ZX Spectrum too!
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orbital-decay
But what font did the C64 keyboard originally use?
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crustyoldhuman
thank you so much for this! love how this looks, it's such a clean typeface
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
exitb
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.
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mark-r
What, no Euro key?
(Yes, I realize the € symbol didn't exist until 1996)
Sharlin
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.
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otikik
"!" is like half of the size of "?". Even if that's faithful to the keyboard, it is very annoying.
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exceptione
A weird thing: the exclamation mark `!` seems to be elevated from the baseline, judging from the specimen.
petesergeant
The download links seem broken, does anyone have the TTF?
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cringleycringe
I love AI!
queenkjuul
This is sweet but i could really live without the Claude commentary in the preview page
amai
No umlauts?
appstorelottery
Very nice - thank you!
amelius
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
These are absolutely beautiful! However, I think I often feel that when looking at fonts somebody has shared online, which makes me wonder how much I love the font, vs how much I just like the design aesthetic of people that craft fonts.
Also I understand why only the uppercase version is given, but it does pretty much preclude me from using the font, since 95% of the letters I type are lowercase
The old versions of VIC-20 used a font called Microgramma.
https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1pjw7q6/t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgramma_(typeface)
8BitDo made a modern mechanical keyboard that looks like a C64. I got one and I am loving it. https://www.8bitdo.com/retro-mechanical-keyboard-c64/
>https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/issues/4
This saddens me, frankly.
Oh gosh, this is really rather nice.
If creatively expanded to more characters, this would make a pretty nice coding font.
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)
Looks nice. The C-64 had an excellent keyboard typeface
I think peak keycaps font were the ones used in the Epson QX-10, Epson HX-20, Tandy 100, and the common C-64.
We need one for the ZX Spectrum too!
But what font did the C64 keyboard originally use?
thank you so much for this! love how this looks, it's such a clean typeface
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
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?
(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.
"!" is like half of the size of "?". Even if that's faithful to the keyboard, it is very annoying.
A weird thing: the exclamation mark `!` seems to be elevated from the baseline, judging from the specimen.
The download links seem broken, does anyone have the TTF?
I love AI!
This is sweet but i could really live without the Claude commentary in the preview page
No umlauts?
Very nice - thank you!
Apple ][ please.
(Actually, I think the Commodore had a better font)