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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: 2dfx on Mon, 21 May 2012, 20:08:31
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After searching through various wiki pages and searching around in various forums, I cannot for the life of me find out what font style or material your garden-variety C64 keyboard uses:
(http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/c64/h/front.jpg)
As for the font, it seems to be some kind of Lucida console-ish font? These keys look like they're doubleshots, but does anyone know what material they're made of? Hard to tell from the picture...doing an order for a WASD V1 to best imitate the C64 style and look.
I understand no amount of tweaking will ever come close to the spherical keys...one can try right? :)
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Hmm...long and interesting reads!
Closest thing I can compare it to is Trade Gothic Bold Condensed 20. Identifont is where I got it but I'm at URL limits apparently...
...but the tail in the Q ends flat on the C64 whereas in Trade Gothic Condensed 20 it does not:
(http://sleepingelephant.com/denial/wiki/images/a/a5/Left_helvetica.jpg)
Getting closer...