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ErroneousBosh • yesterday at 7:59 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Looks like the daisywheel typeface that one of the old ACT Sirius Ones at my dad's old work used to use.


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bayindirh • yesterday at 8:49 PM

It's designed to look like a font from that era, to be honest. It also reminds me some of the older computers I used. Some typewriter, maybe a real VT320 or the older DOS systems I used.

It's a modern yet period correct version of these older fonts, with proper character set support and love for details. It's so perfect for me, it becomes invisible, or as the Berkeley's page says: "It's boring. It's good"*.

Or as I mailed the creator after using it a couple of weeks: "It's so perfect that it transported all my computers to 70s, in a good way".

*: When I was writing this comment, I wondered whether I really set my browser's monospace font to Berkeley. It becomes that transparent after a while.