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Offline 2dfx

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Commodore 64 Keycap Font & Style
« on: Mon, 21 May 2012, 20:08:31 »
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:



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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Commodore 64 Keycap Font & Style
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 22 May 2012, 15:42:23 »
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:


Getting closer...
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