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My favorite recent font discovery is Simplex Roman. Designed in 1967 for early CRT vector displays by Dr. A. V. Hershey (for the US Naval Weapons Laboratory!),
by doomlaser 6y ago
My favorite recent font discovery is Simplex Roman. Designed in 1967 for early CRT vector displays by Dr. A. V. Hershey (for the US Naval Weapons Laboratory!), and released into the public domain.
Incredibly pleasant looking even today: http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/hershey/ http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/hershey/
OpenType conversions: https://github.com/scruss/AVHershey-OTF/tree/master/otf https://github.com/scruss/AVHershey-OTF/tree/master/otf
Reminds me of vector arcade games like Asteroids and Tempest... By the way, another cool public domain font is the one used on all US interstates — 1948! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Gothic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Gothic
- ducktective 6y ago'l' and 'I' is rendered the same way in Simplex. I mean, exactly the same. Also little difference between '0' and 'O'.
- doomlaser 6y agothe i has got a little cute circle, like the j! https://twitter.com/Doomlaser/status/1308021841324367872 https://twitter.com/Doomlaser/status/1308021841324367872
- Joeri 6y agoThis feeling of roundedness reminds me of APL385 / APL386. https://abrudz.github.io/APL386/ https://abrudz.github.io/APL386/ I’ve always liked the look, but I use Fira Code in practice because it is more readable and narrower.