A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps

petesergeant

The download links seem broken, does anyone have the TTF?

zooweemama

We need one for the ZX Spectrum too!

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.

Oarch

Oh gosh, this is really rather nice.

jankhg

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

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.

appstorelottery

Very nice - thank you!

amai

No umlauts?

orbital-decay

But what font did the C64 keyboard originally use?

amelius

Apple ][ please. (Actually, I think the Commodore had a better font)

tniemi

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)

mark-r

What, no Euro key? (Yes, I realize the € symbol didn't exist until 1996)

exceptione

A weird thing: the exclamation mark `!` seems to be elevated from the baseline, judging from the specimen.

petecooper

> https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/issues/4 This saddens me, frankly.

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)

dar5hak

If creatively expanded to more characters, this would make a pretty nice coding font.

otikik

"!" is like half of the size of "?". Even if that's faithful to the keyboard, it is very annoying.

queenkjuul

This is sweet but i could really live without the Claude commentary in the preview page

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