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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Replying to @t1merickson
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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Replying to @mwichary
It's found as well on a bunch of Canon AP typewriters from the same era.
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Replying to @t1merickson
Yeah, I meant keyboards as in “electronic typewriters and computers alike.”
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Replying to @mwichary
I have a sense that I’ve seen the answer somewhere, but I cannot find it now. :·(
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Replying to @mwichary
Thanks for even spending a minute to dig into this— let me know if you find any clues or info!
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Replying to @t1merickson
It might be a cool project to try to recreate this font, if not available elsewhere.
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Replying to @mwichary
Scanning the key caps, if they’re double shots, should give pretty good quality source material.
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Replying to @mwichary
No luck in Identifont, opened a case here: https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/forum/case/1300962/ …
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Replying to @mwichary
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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Replying to @mwichary
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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Replying to @mwichary
Or, possibly, the bad font is the same they used on alphanumeric keys previously.
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