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Marcin Wichary
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Marcin Wichary

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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
Joined October 2009

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    1. Tim Erickson‏ @t1merickson 2 Nov 2017
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      OH! I'm re-creating the keycaps to be reproduced for modern MX switches—trying to track down the font used for the modifers, any insight?

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Nov 2017
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      Off the top of my head, I only know Canon used this font on many keyboards. I’ll take a look later.

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    3. Tim Erickson‏ @t1merickson 2 Nov 2017
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      It's found as well on a bunch of Canon AP typewriters from the same era.

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 2 Nov 2017
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      Yeah, I meant keyboards as in “electronic typewriters and computers alike.”

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      I have a sense that I’ve seen the answer somewhere, but I cannot find it now. :·(

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      Thanks for even spending a minute to dig into this— let me know if you find any clues or info! 🙌🏼

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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 3 Nov 2017
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      It might be a cool project to try to recreate this font, if not available elsewhere.

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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 3 Nov 2017
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      Scanning the key caps, if they’re double shots, should give pretty good quality source material.

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      No luck in Identifont, opened a case here: https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/forum/case/1300962/ …

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    10. Tim Erickson‏ @t1merickson 3 Nov 2017
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      check out the N glyph here: https://deskthority.net/photos-f62/canon-typewriter-keyboards-t4242.html …

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      I saw this earlier today. It looks to me that this typewriter simply uses two different fonts for the function keys.

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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 3 Nov 2017
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          BACK TRACE is the good font, DEC TAB is the bad one. My bet is they needed to add new keys for this model, and weren’t paying attention.

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          Or, possibly, the bad font is the same they used on alphanumeric keys previously.

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