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Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts

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Re: Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts

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Post by actionfromafar »

dsevil wrote: post #2

Based on Reproducing Typewriter, a letterpress typeface from c. 1906 used to create fake typewritten letters for promotional material. Where other monospace typefaces replicated actual typewriters, Reproducing Typewriter had improvements for better readability at smaller point sizes and/or where poor quality reproduction was an issue. I thought its features would make it the basis of a good coding font, too. Old Time…

You wouldn't consider changing license to Apache-2.0, or dual license under that?

Re: Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts

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Post by syeare »

merecactus wrote: post #9
dsevil wrote: post #2

Based on Reproducing Typewriter, a letterpress typeface from c. 1906 used to create fake typewritten letters for promotional material. Where other monospace typefaces replicated actual typewriters, Reproducing Typewriter had improvements for better readability at smaller point sizes and/or where poor quality reproduction was an issue. I thought its features would make it the basis of a good coding font, too. Old Time…

Thank you so much for making and sharing this. I'm especially grateful that you included the code variant. I'm not a programmer but love monospace fonts but the lack of a slashed zero in so many otherwise lovely fonts has been a deal breaker for me!

Spotted my kin!

What is it that makes slashed zeroes so nuch more appealing than the other kinds of "zeroes"? Slashed zeroes are definitely much better than those nasty dotted inverse donut zeroes

How does a dot in a zero even make any kinda logical sense? It's like a piece of dough floating in midair in the center of a donut

Dotted zeroes [insert copypasta] bad

I don't even know why I'm so obsessed with the slash in zeroes

Re: Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts

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Post by phorkyas82 »

evan_piermont wrote: post #16

Is there a(n easy) way to integrate this into Latex, to use it for math fonts?

If you want to use non standard fonts, I think, you should use XeLaTex to compile your file. After installing the font in the system, this just worked on my Ubuntu:

\usepackage{mathspec} \setallmainfonts(Digits,Latin){Old Timey Mono}

\begin{document}

Just test some equation \begin{equation} \frac{e^x}{2-x} = \int_0^\infty f(x)dx \end{equation}

\end{document}

Re: Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts

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Post by wmwragg »

dsevil wrote: post #2

Based on Reproducing Typewriter, a letterpress typeface from c. 1906 used to create fake typewritten letters for promotional material. Where other monospace typefaces replicated actual typewriters, Reproducing Typewriter had improvements for better readability at smaller point sizes and/or where poor quality reproduction was an issue. I thought its features would make it the basis of a good coding font, too. Old Time…

Looking at the examples, they look good, though one thing stands out, the "w" seems to be bolder than the other letters. The "m" seems fine, as do the other letters and symbols, just the "w".

Re: Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts

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Post by brainwad »

kleiba wrote: post #12

Apparently, the letter ß is not included which is used in German. That's why German is absent from the list of supported languages.

Just the uppercase variant ẞ - the lowercase ß _is_ there. Notably, uppercase ẞ didn't exist at the time the source typeface was designed – it was only officially adopted 111 years later in 2017.
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