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Posted by sohkamyung 12 hours ago

A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps(github.com)
359 points | 60 commentspage 2
crustyoldhuman 5 hours ago|
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

exitb 11 hours ago||
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 10 hours ago|
Same, the old one somehow looks newer lol
otikik 8 hours ago||
"!" is like half of the size of "?". Even if that's faithful to the keyboard, it is very annoying.
BearOso 7 hours ago|
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.

mark-r 9 hours ago||
What, no Euro key?

(Yes, I realize the € symbol didn't exist until 1996)

Sharlin 12 hours 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.
urbnspacecowboy 5 hours ago||
Good question! I've looked into this a bit myself and I think the best overall match is Akzidenz-Grotesk Condensed, albeit not exact: https://www.myfonts.com/products/condensed-regular-akzidenz-...

The G is different (look at the lower right corner), the 0 (zero) has a slash which looks custom, and the Q is very different (it looks like a letter O with a piece of another O added for the tail).

And yes, since it's the standard comment about fonts, this is a commercial font that costs an arm and a leg.

judetechdevs 10 hours ago|||
It looks too nice to have been drawn just for keycaps :(
mxfh 11 hours ago||
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.
exceptione 9 hours ago||
A weird thing: the exclamation mark `!` seems to be elevated from the baseline, judging from the specimen.
petesergeant 12 hours ago||
The download links seem broken, does anyone have the TTF?
Tomrn 12 hours ago||
https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/tree/main/fon...
dekoruotas 8 hours ago|||
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...
leptons 4 hours ago|||
I removed the querystring ?raw=true on the download link, and then clicked "view raw" and that worked.
_joel 11 hours ago||
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keyle 11 hours ago||
Completely useless comment thank you. And the link is broken in the repo.
nar001 11 hours 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...
_joel 9 hours ago||||
The readme is just a text file, the files are there, it doesn't take a genius to find them.

"How do I download the TTF". Well, use your brain.

madaxe_again 11 hours ago|||
That isn’t the repo. That’s a readme. It’s there in the repo, it’s just fine.
bodge5000 11 hours ago||
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

cringleycringe 9 hours ago||
I love AI!
queenkjuul 6 hours ago||
This is sweet but i could really live without the Claude commentary in the preview page
amai 10 hours ago|
No umlauts?
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