Perhaps best known for being the basis for Eurostile, a staple of SF movie typography.
queenkjuul 1 hours ago [-]
Microgramma and Eurostile are all time classics. I have so many old electronics that used them on the control panels.
There's an open source font QTEurotype that does an excellent approximation that I've been using in a recent project
badc0ffee 1 hours ago [-]
The PET models used this as well.
crustyoldhuman 47 minutes ago [-]
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
"There is no RETURN, SHIFT...", "Too many F keys". They are confusing a typeface with trying to replicate the keyboard keys.
The arrows are not the cursor keys, but based on the ESC key.
They are right about the @ character though, it looks quite wonky.
BearOso 3 hours ago [-]
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.
petecooper 2 hours ago [-]
>It's really obvious.
I'm not disputing that -- the approach of the issue OP was what irked me.
kalleboo 2 hours ago [-]
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.
dylan604 3 hours ago [-]
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?
dar5hak 3 hours ago [-]
If creatively expanded to more characters, this would make a pretty nice coding font.
Oarch 6 hours ago [-]
Oh gosh, this is really rather nice.
unD 5 hours ago [-]
I haven't read "Press play on tape" in decades!
Sharlin 4 hours ago [-]
There was a band named PRESS PLAY ON TAPE (stylized in all caps, of course) playing SID covers and similar stuff that I saw performing a couple of times back in the 00s/10s. Actually, looks like they’re still active at least to some extent: https://pressplayontape.com/
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)
otikik 3 hours ago [-]
"!" is like half of the size of "?". Even if that's faithful to the keyboard, it is very annoying.
BearOso 3 hours ago [-]
It's not faithful. The AI took the original image and assumed the ! was supposed to be elevated like that. This project is low-effort AI generated.
Edit to add: This GitHub user has a over a hundred repositories full of random slop. It's clearly being used to generate activity for a resume or something.
mark-r 5 hours ago [-]
What, no Euro key?
(Yes, I realize the € symbol didn't exist until 1996)
exitb 6 hours ago [-]
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.
judetechdevs 6 hours ago [-]
Same, the old one somehow looks newer lol
exceptione 4 hours ago [-]
A weird thing: the exclamation mark `!` seems to be elevated from the baseline, judging from the specimen.
Sharlin 7 hours ago [-]
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 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).
And yes, since it's the standard comment about fonts, this is a commercial font that costs an arm and a leg.
judetechdevs 6 hours ago [-]
It looks too nice to have been drawn just for keycaps :(
mxfh 6 hours ago [-]
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.
orbital-decay 5 hours ago [-]
But what font did the C64 keyboard originally use?
The readme is just a text file, the files are there, it doesn't take a genius to find them.
"How do I download the TTF". Well, use your brain.
madaxe_again 6 hours ago [-]
That isn’t the repo. That’s a readme. It’s there in the repo, it’s just fine.
bodge5000 6 hours ago [-]
To be fair they are correct, there's a "Download TTF" which seems to be at least partially broken (cmd-click works fine, but just clicking it takes you to an error page), but you are right, the files are there in the repo and download fine.
The readme isn't the first place I'd look for a download link either, but it is there
amai 5 hours ago [-]
No umlauts?
appstorelottery 5 hours ago [-]
Very nice - thank you!
cringleycringe 4 hours ago [-]
I love AI!
amelius 5 hours ago [-]
Apple ][ please.
(Actually, I think the Commodore had a better font)
https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201953
https://bjoernkarmann.dk/project/occlution_grotesque
https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1pjw7q6/t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgramma_(typeface)
There's an open source font QTEurotype that does an excellent approximation that I've been using in a recent project
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
This saddens me, frankly.
"There is no RETURN, SHIFT...", "Too many F keys". They are confusing a typeface with trying to replicate the keyboard keys.
The arrows are not the cursor keys, but based on the ESC key.
They are right about the @ character though, it looks quite wonky.
I'm not disputing that -- the approach of the issue OP was what irked me.
https://www.dafont.com/zx-spectrum.font
(Yes, I copied the image from the page into Paint and drew a line)
Edit to add: This GitHub user has a over a hundred repositories full of random slop. It's clearly being used to generate activity for a resume or something.
(Yes, I realize the € symbol didn't exist until 1996)
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).
And yes, since it's the standard comment about fonts, this is a commercial font that costs an arm and a leg.
"How do I download the TTF". Well, use your brain.
The readme isn't the first place I'd look for a download link either, but it is there
(Actually, I think the Commodore had a better font)