111 points sohkamyung 2 hours ago 17 comments
petesergeant 1 hour ago | parent
The download links seem broken, does anyone have the TTF?
Tomrn 1 hour ago | parent
_joel 1 hour ago | parent
The intersection of people who come to HN to read articles and those who can't browse a git repo is interesting.
keyle 55 minutes ago | parent
Completely useless comment thank you. And the link is broken in the repo.
nar001 52 minutes ago | parent
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 49 minutes ago | parent
That isn’t the repo. That’s a readme. It’s there in the repo, it’s just fine.
bodge5000 39 minutes ago | parent
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
zooweemama 1 hour ago | parent
We need one for the ZX Spectrum too!
Sharlin 1 hour ago | parent
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.
jankhg 43 minutes ago | parent
This reminds me of this beautifully written article about the font Gorton.
mxfh 24 minutes ago | parent
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...
exitb 42 minutes ago | parent
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 32 minutes ago | parent
Same, the old one somehow looks newer lol
appstorelottery 3 minutes ago | parent
Very nice - thank you!