A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps

Re:A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64... by zooweemama on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:10AM (#49990634)

We need one for the ZX Spectrum too!

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Re:A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64... by stevekemp on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:05AM (#49993849)

You can find a Speccy font here:

https://www.dafont.com/zx-spectrum.font

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Re:A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64... by zooweemama on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:07AM (#50015879)

Thank you! I was meaning a font created from photos of the Spectrum rubber keys, as in the OP

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Re:A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64... by TechnicianTed on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:00PM (#50027120)

The closest matches seem to be Helvetica Bold (CSS weight 700) for the main letter and Helvetica Demi-Bold (600) for the symbols and keywords but some symbols like @ # and ~ are slightly different.

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Re:A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64... by wolvoleo on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:11AM (#50001752)

And the Atari XL

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