The C64 Dead Test Font

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59 points | by masswerk 7 hours ago

4 comments

  • rob74 5 hours ago
    In Germany (maybe also Austria?), that font is probably best known from the logo of major computer magazine/site CHIP (https://www.chip.de/). Although, for some unfathomable reason, the C in the "dead test font" doesn't have the characteristic "thickening" in the lower vertical part, although the G has it...
    • daneel_w 1 hour ago
      And so many variant typefaces of the same graphical language were seen in a million products during the home computer boom of the late 70s and early 80s. Iconic.
  • krige 4 hours ago
    Good ol' It's A Computer (tm) font. A good while back I've been using Westminster in every piece of UI I wrote for myself. Maybe I should start doing that again.
  • bitwize 3 hours ago
    I love the "MICR line"-like appearance, fonts of which type were heavily used in the 1970s and 1980s to indicate "computer/technology stuff".
  • Chaosvex 4 hours ago
    Seeing typos like 'resulation' is now a nice hint that a human wrote the article.

    Nice exploration, bit of quirky fun.

    • masswerk 30 minutes ago
      Sorry, I had to fix this.

      (You're welcome anyway. And yes, I think, it's the sort of quirky article, an LLM can't come up with.)

    • phrotoma 2 hours ago
      > Even the glass dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections, proof they were crafted by the honest, simple, hard-working indigenous peoples of wherever.
      • masswerk 25 minutes ago
        Every hand-knitted carpet has some error per design, since only Allah is perfect.

        But, I guess, "resulation" may be a bit blotchy for a sign of humbleness. :-)