DSE Typewriter Font

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A project to create a monospace coding font inspired by early 20th-century typewriters.

And to practice editing fonts directly in FontForge.

I have to do something to occupy my remaining time in this fascist hellscape somehow.

About This Font

This font is not the result of any scans or traces of samples, specimens, or other output from an actual typewriter.

It’s more like an amalgamation of old-school typewriter fonts with features semi-arbitrarily picked from each one, as well as a few not in use on actual typewriters.

Features and Characteristics

• Relatively low ex-height.
• Coding-friendly distinctive characters: li1| Oo0 `'"
• Elite scale typeface (12 characters per inch at 12-point font size).
• Perfectly useful as a traditional typewriter face for other purposes, if you don’t mind the zero (0) having a dot in the middle.

Fun With Typographic Features

Fun With Character Variants

Fun With Stylistic Sets

Fun Combinations

Unicode Coverage

• Includes the following in their entirety:
  • US-International
  • Windows-1252
  • All macOS accented characters available by holding down a letter.
  • All macOS accented characters available using Alt- (Option-) or Shift-Alt- (Shift-Option-).
• Includes the following Unicode blocks in their entirety:
  • Basic Latin (ASCII)
  • Latin-1 Supplement (completing ISO Latin-1)
  • Box Drawing
  • Block Elements
  • Braille Patterns
• Selected extended Latin, to support most western European languages.
• Basic Cyrillic and Greek.
• Additional selected punctuation, currency symbols, arrows, math operators, and more.
• Full coverage of Code Page 437 and WGL4 in progress.

Check out the complete list of characters covered, and how much we cover important Unicode blocks and WGL4.

Caveats and Answers to Questions You Might Ask

• There are no hints, so on certain platforms this font may not be readable at lower font sizes. Auto-hints seem to work okay-ish.
• This is most definitely a work in progress.

Download

dse-typewriter-font.ttf, the base variant.

dse-typewriter-font-lh.ttf, a variant with a taller (1.2) line-height.

dse-typewriter-font-ah.ttf, a variant with autohints, mainly for Windows users. Try it!

GitHub

https://github.com/dse/dse-typewriter-font

Copyright/License

Copyright © 2020 Darren Embry. SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Contact

dse COMMERCIAL AT webonastick FULL STOP com

Screenshots

Samples

/* from Linux kernel source (GPL2): */

/* If CLONE_SYSVSEM is set, establish sharing of SEM_UNDO state between
 * parent and child tasks.
 */

int copy_semundo(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
{
        struct sem_undo_list *undo_list;
        int error;

        if (clone_flags & CLONE_SYSVSEM) {
                error = get_undo_list(&undo_list);
                if (error)
                        return error;
                refcount_inc(&undo_list->refcnt);
                tsk->sysvsem.undo_list = undo_list;
        } else
                tsk->sysvsem.undo_list = NULL;

        return 0;
}
                            

Try It Out!

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My Other Font(s)

• Routed Gothic, that mid-20th-century drafting font scanned from K&E drafting equipment.
• DSE Typewriter Bitmap, an X Window System bitmap font I made decades ago. It’s similar to DSE Typewriter, but not exactly the same.