Jenny List writes about a project by Levente Szabadkai who traced the iconic font from Commodore 64 keyboard keycaps using photographs and released it as a vector font on GitHub. The font includes uppercase letters, PETSCII glyphs, function keys, and a Commodore logo, though commenters noted several inaccuracies in the tracing and pointed out that the C64 did in fact support lowercase characters on screen.
- Commenters identified specific discrepancies in the recreated font, including the shape of the G, R, and M characters, and the lack of stroke contrast present on the original keycaps.
- A commenter provided a Dropbox link to a modified version of the font that adds lowercase letters and fixes some symbols.
- The article's claim that the C64 "never sported lower case letters" was widely disputed; the machine supported lowercase via C= + Shift, though the keycaps themselves only displayed uppercase.
- A link to an earlier, more faithful recreation of the C64 screen font (style64.org) was shared, though that is distinct from the keycap font.
- Commenters identified specific discrepancies in the recreated font, including the shape of the G, R, and M characters, and the lack of stroke contrast present on the original keycaps.
- A commenter provided a Dropbox link to a modified version of the font that adds lowercase letters and fixes some symbols.
- The article's claim that the C64 "never sported lower case letters" was widely disputed; the machine supported lowercase via C= + Shift, though the keycaps themselves only displayed uppercase.
- A link to an earlier, more faithful recreation of the C64 screen font (style64.org) was shared, though that is distinct from the keycap font.
