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Departure Mono – a monospaced pixel font with lo-fi technical vibe

185 points by microflash 2y ago

turtle_heck 2y ago
This font is beautiful, thanks for sharing.
landgenoot 2y ago
Reminds me of digital organizers from the 90's. I still have a working TI PS-6700, which my father used back then. I replace the battery once in in a while to keep the data. Meanwhile it has an uptime of almost 30 years.
lsllc 2y ago
That's a really nicely done website (and font!)!
autoexec 2y ago
Here's a direct link to the font for those like me who couldn't get the site to load: https://departuremono.com/assets/DepartureMono-1.346.zip https://departuremono.com/assets/DepartureMono-1.346.zip
brirec 2y ago
I really like the noisy half-filled box instead of a more common regular pattern.
NetOpWibby 2y ago
Dang that’s nice
ferguu_ 2y ago
Probably the nicest website i've ever seen for something like this! Oh, and the font is cool too...
- Rendello 2y ago
  The Marvin Visions site is awesome too, though some not like the initial scrolling section at the beginning: https://www.readvisions.com/marvin https://www.readvisions.com/marvin
Pinus 2y ago
Tangential, on the "lo-fi" theme: Looking at old stuff, I like how typewritten documents with charts literally pencilled in have a certain not-quite-perfect, straight-from-the-lab feel to them. By contrast, anything produced using modern methods, be they TeX or Pages.app, looks so damn... finished, for want of a better word (and any imperfections become jarring, rather than charming). What’s a good way of getting that feel, without resorting to downright emulation of low-tech methods (monospaced or even pixel-based fonts, that xkcd graph look for matplotlib, ...)? (Edit: grammar)
- kryptiskt 2y ago
  The Routed Gothic font has 60-70s technical drawing vibes https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/ https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/
  - Pinus 2y ago
    Yes, I love that font, and “DSE Typewriter” by the same creator. However, using them means emulating low tech, and I would like to find a way to avoid that.
- Rendello 2y ago
  I tried designing one of those SSH attack-map websites based around the interfaces in 2001: A Space Odyssey, like these here[1]. It was difficult, I was trying "emulation of low-tech methods" as you said. I think if you could run a shader over top of a web page it'd be easier. I didn't research it that deeply but I don't think that's really a supported use case for web shaders, it would block inputs from using the website if I'm understanding correctly. 1. https://ilikeinterfaces.com/tag/2001-a-space-odyssey/ https://ilikeinterfaces.com/tag/2001-a-space-odyssey/
PixelForg 2y ago
I feel like my prayers have been answered, was looking for a good pixel font for the web and this seems like what I need! It's also monospaced so I can use it for programming
- mrusme 2y ago
  Unless you want to impose blurry fonts onto your visitors, this font won't be it unfortunately. The required increments of 11px to display a crisp font with DepartureMono makes your content either too small (11px) for most people to read, or too large (22px) to look good. I am always saddened by landing pages like this, because they communicate an idea that only works in very specific cases. Are you looking to use this font for a similarly polished, "Apple"-style landing page that is form-over-function? Then this font clearly is for you. But on 99% of pages that have actual content on them this font likely won't work, as much as I, too, would like for it to.
wkyleg 2y ago
Love this! I'm going to try using for programing.
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185 points by microflash 2y ago

This font is beautiful, thanks for sharing.

Reminds me of digital organizers from the 90's. I still have a working TI PS-6700, which my father used back then. I replace the battery once in in a while to keep the data. Meanwhile it has an uptime of almost 30 years.

lsllc 2y ago

That's a really nicely done website (and font!)!

autoexec 2y ago

Here's a direct link to the font for those like me who couldn't get the site to load: https://departuremono.com/assets/DepartureMono-1.346.zip https://departuremono.com/assets/DepartureMono-1.346.zip

brirec 2y ago

I really like the noisy half-filled box instead of a more common regular pattern.

NetOpWibby 2y ago

Dang that’s nice

ferguu_ 2y ago

Probably the nicest website i've ever seen for something like this! Oh, and the font is cool too...

Rendello 2y ago
The Marvin Visions site is awesome too, though some not like the initial scrolling section at the beginning: https://www.readvisions.com/marvin https://www.readvisions.com/marvin

Pinus 2y ago

Tangential, on the "lo-fi" theme: Looking at old stuff, I like how typewritten documents with charts literally pencilled in have a certain not-quite-perfect, straight-from-the-lab feel to them. By contrast, anything produced using modern methods, be they TeX or Pages.app, looks so damn... finished, for want of a better word (and any imperfections become jarring, rather than charming). What’s a good way of getting that feel, without resorting to downright emulation of low-tech methods (monospaced or even pixel-based fonts, that xkcd graph look for matplotlib, ...)? (Edit: grammar)

kryptiskt 2y ago
The Routed Gothic font has 60-70s technical drawing vibes https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/ https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/
- Pinus 2y ago
  Yes, I love that font, and “DSE Typewriter” by the same creator. However, using them means emulating low tech, and I would like to find a way to avoid that.
Rendello 2y ago
I tried designing one of those SSH attack-map websites based around the interfaces in 2001: A Space Odyssey, like these here[1]. It was difficult, I was trying "emulation of low-tech methods" as you said. I think if you could run a shader over top of a web page it'd be easier. I didn't research it that deeply but I don't think that's really a supported use case for web shaders, it would block inputs from using the website if I'm understanding correctly. 1. https://ilikeinterfaces.com/tag/2001-a-space-odyssey/ https://ilikeinterfaces.com/tag/2001-a-space-odyssey/

PixelForg 2y ago

I feel like my prayers have been answered, was looking for a good pixel font for the web and this seems like what I need! It's also monospaced so I can use it for programming

mrusme 2y ago
Unless you want to impose blurry fonts onto your visitors, this font won't be it unfortunately. The required increments of 11px to display a crisp font with DepartureMono makes your content either too small (11px) for most people to read, or too large (22px) to look good. I am always saddened by landing pages like this, because they communicate an idea that only works in very specific cases. Are you looking to use this font for a similarly polished, "Apple"-style landing page that is form-over-function? Then this font clearly is for you. But on 99% of pages that have actual content on them this font likely won't work, as much as I, too, would like for it to.

wkyleg 2y ago

Love this! I'm going to try using for programing.

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