Mega65 Keyboard prototypes have been manufactured

Re:Mega65 Keyboard prototypes have been manufactured by fermienrico on Monday September 17, 2018 @04:32PM (#18009782)

Can you fix the kerning on the key fonts? The kerning and overall font choice is poor mainly because of the space constraint. Try Univers Next Condensed with 16 degree italics like the old Mac keyboard! If you want something normal then you can try Swiss721 or DIN in their condensed formats. Geometric sans (with Futura-like "O") such as the one chosen __does not__ work for keycaps.

Looks like the kerning is manually adjusted by someone who just wanted to cram the letters in the keycap space. For example, "CAPS LOCK" - P and S are merged whereas on the "TAB" key, T, A and B are nicely spaced.

This would drive me nuts and would never able to "unsee" the kerning issues.

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Re:Mega65 Keyboard prototypes have been manufactured by busterarm on Monday September 17, 2018 @05:06PM (#18010088)

The whole point is to faithfully reproduce the C65 prototype. They're extremely unlikely to change the font.

That said, the lines all look a bit thicker/darker than the original to me. That may be responsible for the kerning issue you see.

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Re:Mega65 Keyboard prototypes have been manufactured by Tcepsa on Monday September 17, 2018 @05:42PM (#18010375)

In the article they mention that "The discerning viewer might notice that the MEGA logo is bleeding together a bit in the little vertical gap. We will tweak this. Also, the printing on the fronts of the keys is currently black instead of grey, and there is a little over-bleed on the graphical symbols. We will also get this fixed."

I'm not sure whether this will completely resolve the issue, but it seems likely to at least help. [EDIT: Just noticed that it specifically says "on the graphical symbols" so I'm not sure they'll be adjusting the lettering]

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Re:Mega65 Keyboard prototypes have been manufactured by mega65 on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @02:55AM (#18022298)

Yes, the text on top will also benefit from correcting the over-bleed, that currently makes everything look a bit jammed together.

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