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07 Oct 2026, 5:17 PM	Hacker News	3.0	A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps GitHub repo szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font reconstructs the printed lettering on classic Commodore 64 keycaps from photographs, shipping cleaned-up outlines as TTF, OTF, webfont, and editable glyph files plus a preview.html specimen. It has 381 stars, 6 forks and 9 commits, is at version 1.107, and covers uppercase letters, numbers, punctuation, arrows, £, selected Hungarian accented characters, f1–f12 function labels, and all 63 PETSCII graphic front legends arranged by key. The author explicitly notes it recreates the printed key legends — including geometric reconstructions of PETSCII graphics — and not the C64 screen bitmap font. Why: If you need authentic C64 keycap lettering for a retro UI, game asset, or hardware mockup, this gives you redistributable outlines you can install and edit instead of tracing keycap photos yourself — open preview.html, click the PETSCII buttons to insert symbols, then copy into your app. The catch is stated in the README: this is the printed-legend font, not the screen bitmap font, so it will not give pixel-accurate C64 screen emulation. Install v1.107 over older versions and restart apps still showing the old font. retro-computing fonts open-source design-assets commodore-64

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07 Oct 2026, 5:17 PM

Hacker News

3.0

A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps

GitHub repo szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font reconstructs the printed lettering on classic Commodore 64 keycaps from photographs, shipping cleaned-up outlines as TTF, OTF, webfont, and editable glyph files plus a preview.html specimen. It has 381 stars, 6 forks and 9 commits, is at version 1.107, and covers uppercase letters, numbers, punctuation, arrows, £, selected Hungarian accented characters, f1–f12 function labels, and all 63 PETSCII graphic front legends arranged by key. The author explicitly notes it recreates the printed key legends — including geometric reconstructions of PETSCII graphics — and not the C64 screen bitmap font.

Why: If you need authentic C64 keycap lettering for a retro UI, game asset, or hardware mockup, this gives you redistributable outlines you can install and edit instead of tracing keycap photos yourself — open preview.html, click the PETSCII buttons to insert symbols, then copy into your app. The catch is stated in the README: this is the printed-legend font, not the screen bitmap font, so it will not give pixel-accurate C64 screen emulation. Install v1.107 over older versions and restart apps still showing the old font.