A long shot.
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A long shot. Does anyone know if the font/typeface that Casio used for the keys on their calculators back in the days is available as TrueType or SVG anywhere? I am weirdly fascinated by it and would love to use it for some displays.
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net @formschub@fnordon.de Du vielleicht?
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@mangled_pixel Ah, that’s the complicated thing. I do care about accuracy and I will happily pay for that, as my folder with typefaces I bought over the years proves
It is a lovely font, I can see why you’re fixated on it.
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@ilkkajii might have some clues.
@pahoittelemme @jwildeboer Seems that internet was faster than me. Again.
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@mangled_pixel Ah, that’s the complicated thing. I do care about accuracy and I will happily pay for that, as my folder with typefaces I bought over the years proves
@jwildeboer It's an interesting era to do font identification in, as the 90s were the transition period between pad-printing (such as on a device like that) being designed with with dry-transfer lettering like Letraset (possibly manipulated with phototypesetting methods), to digital. That design has a few examples where the letters are clearly squashed/stretched to fit the keys, which would have been hard (though not impossible) to achieve with phototypesetting, but easy to do digitally.
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@jwildeboer It is very similar to Eurostile. There is a free version of that around called QT Eurotype (developed for use in LaTeX iirc but available as OpenType)
@Hans @jwildeboer definitely eurostile. Just look at that lovely long bar on the G, or the 'swoosh' at the junction of the K
Casio also used Eurostile on the G-Shock and F91 series of watches, so I think it's more likely than not to be the same typeface on the calculator
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@lfourrier The ones on the keys. It seems Bitstream Square 721 Std Extended is very close.
@jwildeboer It seems to me it is perhaps between regular and extended , but it’s clearly not far
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Thank you all! Consensus seems to be that Eurostile [1] and Microgramma-d [2] are very close. The TTFs that Casio itself distributes [3] for teachers are not really that clean, in my opinion, and only contain the keys, not the other characters.
UPDATE: Bitstream Square 721 Std is even closer and might be The One
[1] https://fontsgeek.com/eurostile-font
[2] https://fontsgeek.com/microgramma-d-extended-font
[3] https://edu.casio.com/forteachers/er/fontsets/index.phpAnd now I want dark blue keycaps with white Microgramma characters for my keyboard. Damn
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A long shot. Does anyone know if the font/typeface that Casio used for the keys on their calculators back in the days is available as TrueType or SVG anywhere? I am weirdly fascinated by it and would love to use it for some displays.
@jwildeboer Did anyone else press the buttons on that photo? No? Just me then.
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And now I want dark blue keycaps with white Microgramma characters for my keyboard. Damn
@jwildeboer You should look at the custom keycap process that @attoparsec came up with for his amazing ten hundred keyboard! Just a resin printer with the color you want, dye transfer for the letters, and... a substantial amount of spare time!
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net @formschub@fnordon.de Du vielleicht?
@jwildeboer @wiase Hab gesehen, die Frage ist inzwischen korrekt beantwortet worden. Eine legale *kostenfreie* Möglichkeit, auf die Schrift zuzugreifen, kenne ich leider nicht.
Bei Interesse: Ich hab vor einiger Zeit zu genau dieser Schriftart mal einen etwas nerdigen Blogbeitrag geschrieben …
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@jwildeboer Did anyone else press the buttons on that photo? No? Just me then.
@druid I regularly press the buttons on the real thing (it’s my goto calculator since I bought it in 1995).
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