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

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.

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

Oh gosh, this is really rather nice.

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.

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

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.

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)

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