Looks like a very standard "Motorola-chargen-style" font, found on everything from 80s micros to supermarket till customer displays. But if you're working in a 6x8 space, there's not much room for creativity if you want to maintain readability.
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This is just a pixel-perfect copy of the font found in the calculator's ROM converted to TTF. While I do love being creative with fonts, this was done for preservation.
may 28, 2025, 1:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah I get that, it was just an observation. There's also a utilitarian aspect to it, this font "does the job" which was deemed more important than stylistic flair. In PC BIOS fonts we see some variation, but they're largely the same as one another.
may 28, 2025, 1:36 pm • 1 0 • view
I put this font together sometime in the early-to-mid 90s (with this software), I found it in the wild recently and it looks like about 1/3rd of the nonstandard DOS fonts out there used it as a base (they have most of my <32 chars + some of my >128 chars)
may 28, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow, that has so much more character than the other code page 437 fonts from the day! Looks great! I've made TTFs of a lot of the 1970s character generators, many of which use 5x7 bitmaps, but there is so little space there isn't much room for variation. What little there is can be interesting.
may 28, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view