szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font: Picture-based reconstruction of traditional Commodore 64 keycap lettering, with desktop fonts, webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen. · GitHub

A font recreated from images of traditional Commodore 64 keycaps, with cleaned-up shapes and constant proportions.

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Install the TTF or OTF, then choose C64 Keyboard in your software.

To strive it out, obtain and extract the whole bundle, then open preview.html. Click a special-key or PETSCII button to insert its image into the sort tester, then copy the textual content into your software and choose C64 Keyboard.

If you have got an earlier model put in, exchange it with model 1.107 and restart functions that also present the previous font.

• Uppercase letters, numbers, punctuation, arrows, and £.
• Selected accented letters, together with Hungarian characters.
• Function-key labels f1–f12 and traditional C64 key legends.
• All 63 PETSCII graphic entrance legends, organized by key within the preview.

Lowercase enter shows as uppercase. This recreates printed key legends, together with clean geometric reconstructions of the PETSCII graphics, quite than the display screen bitmap font.

Open preview.html and use the PETSCII buttons to insert the symbols, then copy them from the sort tester. Left legends correspond to Commodore + key, proper legends to Shift + key in uppercase/graphics mode. Pi on the up-arrow key additionally works with Commodore.

These are reconstructed outlines: identities and key assignments come from the Ultimate Commodore 64 Reference; body thickness, curves, and print proportions are inferred from the provided keyboard {photograph}. They aren’t precise photograph traces. Pi is unframed as on the important thing.

The preview handles the particular character codes for you. Copied symbols want this font to show appropriately. See the PETSCII key map and encoding guide for codes and keyboard combos.

Editable outlines are in glyphs/, with construct instruments in scripts/. Original images aren’t included.

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An impartial, unofficial reconstruction.