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 @mwichary may know (knows more about keyboards than anyone and a lot about fonts)
I'm assuming you don't mean the LCD typeface btw.
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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.
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.php -
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 it looks like a vertically squashed version of Eurostile
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@jwildeboer @mwichary may know (knows more about keyboards than anyone and a lot about fonts)
I'm assuming you don't mean the LCD typeface btw.
@samueljohnson Correct. I mean the characters on the keys and on the case around the keys. @mwichary
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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.
„COMPLEX“: ITC Handel
„C-POWER SYSTEM“ etc. and the buttons: Bitstream Square 721 Std Extended -
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.php@jwildeboer
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@jwildeboer it looks like a vertically squashed version of Eurostile
@jwildeboer The reason why I could tell so quickly is that Eurostile is very distinct and widely used in signage. You might already have it installed. Upon looking into it, I think it might be Eurostile Extended
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„COMPLEX“: ITC Handel
„C-POWER SYSTEM“ etc. and the buttons: Bitstream Square 721 Std Extended@wysiwyg_ That is the closest candidate, thank you!
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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.
If the display fonts are similar to the key fonts, the following link might help. It goes to downloads of a number of zipped key font #TTF files.
https://edu.casio.com/forteachers/er/fontsets/
Additionally, the following Github repo provides what seems to be a reconstruction of the CASIO Classwiz display font:
https://github.com/Wenti-D/ClasswizDisplayFont
And this Github repo includes multiple Casio TTF font files that may contain key or display fonts or both:
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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 which one ? Look at the C in Casio, Complex, [C], [AC]… 4 different ones. I fear a combination of hand drawn and lettering stencils
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@jwildeboer which one ? Look at the C in Casio, Complex, [C], [AC]… 4 different ones. I fear a combination of hand drawn and lettering stencils
@lfourrier The ones on the keys. It seems Bitstream Square 721 Std Extended is very close.
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@jwildeboer There are different Fonts at play here. The one on the buttons looks like Eurostyle.
@animaux @jwildeboer
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@animaux @jwildeboer
Yes, there might even be 3 fonts in use.@raymaccarthy @jwildeboer I think we can top that!
1. Casio logo-font
2. Serif »fx-115D«-font
3. Italic »SUPER«-font
4. Font for »COMPLEX«
5. Button and on-display-fonts (Eurostyle)
6. possibly extra fonts for greek letters and mathematic symbolsMaybe @kupfers likes to chime in?
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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.
Off hand I'd say that was Eurostile / Microgramma.
There might be an inexpensive font that is similar
https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/11/29/fontspots-eurostile/
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@raymaccarthy @jwildeboer I think we can top that!
1. Casio logo-font
2. Serif »fx-115D«-font
3. Italic »SUPER«-font
4. Font for »COMPLEX«
5. Button and on-display-fonts (Eurostyle)
6. possibly extra fonts for greek letters and mathematic symbolsMaybe @kupfers likes to chime in?
@animaux @raymaccarthy @kupfers Eurostile not Eurostyle
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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 Those numeric keys go way back. The same lettering for the digits was used for the Casio fx-8 in 1977; that was Casio's first handheld scientific calculator with a LCD screen.
The first Casio battery handheld scientific calculator, the fx-1 (1972) and its successor the fx-10 (1974), used a different font for the numeric keys and had LED displays.
So I doubt you'll get an exact match for the typeface from original materials. Something close will have to do.
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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.php@jwildeboer To be clear, Microgramma is the original, from all the way back in 1952, and was uppercase only.
In the early 60s, two versions that extended it with lowercase letters were made, one of which was Eurostile (while the other remained Microgramma).
Various digitizations of both fonts were later made, including Bitstream's version, which would have been some time in the 80s/early 90s, and seems to have been made specifically from Eurostile.
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@jwildeboer To be clear, Microgramma is the original, from all the way back in 1952, and was uppercase only.
In the early 60s, two versions that extended it with lowercase letters were made, one of which was Eurostile (while the other remained Microgramma).
Various digitizations of both fonts were later made, including Bitstream's version, which would have been some time in the 80s/early 90s, and seems to have been made specifically from Eurostile.
@jwildeboer Oh, and btw, the word COMPLEX on that fx-115D is set in Handel Gothic.
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@jwildeboer To be clear, Microgramma is the original, from all the way back in 1952, and was uppercase only.
In the early 60s, two versions that extended it with lowercase letters were made, one of which was Eurostile (while the other remained Microgramma).
Various digitizations of both fonts were later made, including Bitstream's version, which would have been some time in the 80s/early 90s, and seems to have been made specifically from Eurostile.
@mangled_pixel TIL (Today I Learned)! Thank you for sharing this
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@mangled_pixel TIL (Today I Learned)! Thank you for sharing this
@jwildeboer Happy to help. Oh, and I've often used Michroma (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Michroma) as an alternative to Eurostile/Microgramma, if you're looking for something free in the same style, without worrying about complete accuracy.
