szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font
Photo-based reconstruction of classic Commodore 64 keycap lettering, with desktop fonts, webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen.
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A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps, with cleaned-up shapes and consistent proportions. Try it in your browser · Download TTF · OTF · Webfont · Complete package Install the TTF or OTF, then select C64 Keyboard in your application. To try it out, open the online preview, or download and extract the complete package and open preview.html. Click a function-key or PETSCII button to insert its symbol into the type tester, then copy the text into your application and select C64 Keyboard. If you have an earlier version installed, replace it with version 1.112 and restart applications that still show the old font. The former U+E000 symbol and the U+E020–U+E028 key-name legends are no longer included. Lowercase input displays as uppercase. This recreates printed key legends, including smooth geometric reconstructions of the PETSCII graphics, rather than the screen bitmap font. The lettering comes from my own…
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What this repository does
Photo-based reconstruction of classic Commodore 64 keycap lettering, with desktop fonts, webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen.
Repository facts
- Owner
- szabadkai
- Primary language
- Python
- Stars
- 525
- Forks
- 11
- Open issues + pull requests
- 4
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-05T11:03:06.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-07T21:18:43.000Z
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