The C64 Dead Test Font

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27 points | by masswerk 4 hours ago

3 comments

  • Chaosvex 16 minutes ago
    Seeing typos like 'resulation' is now a nice hint that a human wrote the article.

    Nice exploration, bit of quirky fun.

  • rob74 1 hour 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...
  • krige 55 minutes 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.