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/
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?
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.
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
Very cool! Hope you like this one ... about a font carved into a tree!!
https://bjoernkarmann.dk/project/occlution_grotesque
in the further reading there is also a list with a number of recreations of related digitzed routed fonts: https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/r...
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)
Perhaps best known for being the basis for Eurostile, the staple of SF movie typography.
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)
Oh gosh, this is really rather nice.
I haven't read "Press play on tape" in decades!
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/
It really is though. Very clean.
A weird thing: the exclamation mark `!` seems to be elevated from the baseline, judging from the specimen.
>https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/issues/4
This saddens me, frankly.
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?
What, no Euro key?
(Yes, I realize the € symbol didn't exist until 1996)
"!" is like half of the size of "?". Even if that's faithful to the keyboard, it is very annoying.
We need one for the ZX Spectrum too!
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.
Same, the old one somehow looks newer lol
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.
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.
But what font did the C64 keyboard originally use?
The download links seem broken, does anyone have the TTF?
Readme links to: https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/blob/main/fon... Instead, it should be linked to: https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/raw/refs/head...
https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/tree/main/fon...
Very nice - thank you!
No umlauts?
I love AI!
Apple ][ please.
(Actually, I think the Commodore had a better font)