The C64 Dead Test Font
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The C64 Dead Test Font
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Re: The C64 Dead Test Font
#2In 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...
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#3Good 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.
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#4Seeing typos like 'resulation' is now a nice hint that a human wrote the article.
Nice exploration, bit of quirky fun.
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#5I love the "MICR line"-like appearance, fonts of which type were heavily used in the 1970s and 1980s to indicate "computer/technology stuff".
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#6Seeing typos like 'resulation' is now a nice hint that a human wrote the article. Nice exploration, bit of quirky fun.
> Even the glass dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections, proof they were crafted by the honest, simple, hard-working indigenous peoples of wherever.
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#7In 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...
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.
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#8Seeing typos like 'resulation' is now a nice hint that a human wrote the article. Nice exploration, bit of quirky fun.
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.)
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#9Seeing typos like 'resulation' is now a nice hint that a human wrote the article. Nice exploration, bit of quirky fun.
> Even the glass dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections, proof they were crafted by the honest, simple, hard-working indigenous peoples of wherever.
Every hand-knotted 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. :-)
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#10I am pretty sure that I saw that font on a C64 before. Paradroid used a very similar font for the logo, but the game itself uses a different font (Paradrew).