I've been on the look for this for a long time.
Thanks!
Routed Gothic Font
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#22It's not ugly, it's beautiful.
At the risk of sounding "out of touch with reality" and "retro nostalgic", I strongly believe that a lot of clean, sterile work took place in the 1965-1985 era. From UNIX to SR-71, everything mankind did in the technical space was minimal, purposeful, clean, legible, durable, maintainable, modular and many other adjectives that would compound on the idea of creating a truly better product or service. Marketing took a…
> minimal, purposeful, clean, legible, durable, maintainable, modular
Yeah, the modernist ethos. Today those would sound featureless, single-minded, featureless (yea, again), oversimplified, lasting beyond its usefulness, unoptimised, repetitive.
As any engineer, I also like the modernist thinking better, but it's not realistic, life is messy and complicated.
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#23Why does it implement just a few of the superscripts, but not all?
1, 2 and 3 are in the Latin 1 block, 0,4-9 are at U+2070-U+2079.
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#24Related to this one, has anyone identified an equivalent font for what was used in the Apollo CSM and LM cockpits?
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#25I'm pleased to see he implemented the vital U+1F4A9 code point.
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#26Wow, this is triggering some kind of memory cascade in the back of my brain that I simply cannot place. I know this font, but I really can't say from where. The closest guesses I can come up with is the Commodore 64 Programmers Reference Guide, or maybe an old terminal or computer magazine. But I could easily be wrong. Either way, I love it.
Perhaps Forrest Mims of Radio Shack Engineer's Notebook fame?
https://hackaday.com/2017/01/18/forrest-mims-radio-shack-and...
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#27Wow, this is triggering some kind of memory cascade in the back of my brain that I simply cannot place. I know this font, but I really can't say from where. The closest guesses I can come up with is the Commodore 64 Programmers Reference Guide, or maybe an old terminal or computer magazine. But I could easily be wrong. Either way, I love it.
Perhaps Forrest Mims of Radio Shack Engineer's Notebook fame? https://hackaday.com/2017/01/18/forrest-mims-radio-shack-and...
Wow. I think that might be it!
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#28Wow, this is triggering some kind of memory cascade in the back of my brain that I simply cannot place. I know this font, but I really can't say from where. The closest guesses I can come up with is the Commodore 64 Programmers Reference Guide, or maybe an old terminal or computer magazine. But I could easily be wrong. Either way, I love it.
To me it looks like the Simplex font from AutoCAD (which I believe was based on a selection of characters from Hershey).
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#29Brick Hect would be proud.
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#30For a newer font in this vein, I'd look at B612, a font designed in cooperation with Airbus specifically for visibility inside cockpits: https://github.com/polarsys/b612/blob/master/docs/B612-Leafl...
Too bad the () and the [] look so much alike in the monospaced version.