Homecomputer Fonts (Sixtyfour)

Variable fonts based on the Commodore 64 fonts.

Inspired by the article Raster CRT Typography (According to DEC) by Norbert Landsteiner, I reworked some old pixel versions of the Commodore 64 and Amiga Workbench fonts and I had done years ago to include variable font axes for the size of the horizontal scanlines and the amount of horizontal bleed of the pixels due to the phosphor latency found in CRT displays.

Sixtyfour, check the interactive demo page.

Workbench, check the interactive demo page.

Building

Fonts are built automatically by GitHub Actions - take a look in the "Actions" tab for the latest build.

If you want to build fonts manually on your own computer:

To use gftools builder, I had to jump through some hoops to install pygit2 on macOS.

Activate the virtual environment:

source venv/bin/activate

When you have got it, you can just type

make build
make test
make proof

Changelog

License

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at https://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Repository Layout

This font repository structure is based on the Google Fonts Project Template.