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.
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?
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'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.
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
That’s really neat. Interesting watching them grow sideways
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, a staple of SF movie typography.
>https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/issues/4
This saddens me, frankly.
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.
>It's really obvious.
I'm not disputing that -- the approach of the issue OP was what irked me.
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.
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?
If creatively expanded to more characters, this would make a pretty nice coding font.
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.
More AI slop.
"!" is like half of the size of "?". Even if that's faithful to the keyboard, it is very annoying.
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.
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)
We need one for the ZX Spectrum too!
You can find a Speccy font here:
https://www.dafont.com/zx-spectrum.font
A weird thing: the exclamation mark `!` seems to be elevated from the baseline, judging from the specimen.
What, no Euro key?
(Yes, I realize the € symbol didn't exist until 1996)
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
But what font did the C64 keyboard originally use?
Dunno about the original C64 (which is what this attempts to recreate), but the C64C used ITC Avant Garde Gothic Pro Book according to https://github.com/FeralChild64/MechBoard64-keycaps
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.
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...
I love AI!
No umlauts?
Very nice - thank you!
Apple ][ please.
(Actually, I think the Commodore had a better font)