A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps

(github.com)

72 points | by sohkamyung 1 hour ago

6 comments

jankhg 1 minute ago
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 0 minutes ago
Nice. It never really occurred to me how different these are from 64C keycaps.
Oarch 16 minutes ago
Oh gosh, this is really rather nice.
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- Loughla 0 minutes ago
  It really is though. Very clean.
zooweemama 56 minutes ago
We need one for the ZX Spectrum too!
Sharlin 54 minutes 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.
petesergeant 1 hour ago
The download links seem broken, does anyone have the TTF?
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- Tomrn 1 hour ago
  https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/tree/main/fon...
- _joel 45 minutes ago
  The intersection of people who come to HN to read articles and those who can't browse a git repo is interesting.
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  - keyle 13 minutes ago
    Completely useless comment thank you. And the link is broken in the repo.
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    - nar001 9 minutes ago
      I'm confused, what do you mean? It seems to be in the git repo as it should be? https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/tree/main/fon...
    - madaxe_again 7 minutes ago
      That isn’t the repo. That’s a readme. It’s there in the repo, it’s just fine.