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Dinand Mentink
Dinand Mentink
@dinandmentink@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Hello you wonderfully wierd fedizens. I'm looking for something, something so obscure someone here is bound to know it.

I'm looking for a font that 'feels'™ like old IBM terminals. I know of the 3270 font, however I find it a bit hard to read.

It's for a book, where I will use it for "forum posts" and "short messages". So, it'll be used for prose, but short.

I could use a regular monospace font, but would prefer something a bit more 80s.

#font #retrocomputing #writing #80s

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Being Left Behind Enjoyer
Being Left Behind Enjoyer
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@dinandmentink @fluidlogic probably one of these https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/

The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack: Font Index

Full index of the world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles
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Dinand Mentink
Dinand Mentink
@dinandmentink@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@thomasfuchs @fluidlogic yes. It may be, however, that I should use one with antialiassing and other modern innovations, for legibility.

So will try a few of these out, otherwise I'm searching for some font that resembles these, but modern.

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