Typophile - (x) Letters on Amstrad CPC computer keys (1984) - similar to Bryant {Stephen} - Comments

Hi, thanks all for your kind

egemenk — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:09:37 -0700

Hi, thanks all for your kind replies. I think I’ll stick with this Bryant font. It’s the most similar font (the letters on the keyboard are also the same font). I suppose that the “Leroy set” or the “standard draftsman’s hand lettering” that you mentioned aren’t digital vectorised fonts that i could use.. I don’t seem to know a lot about these font issues anyway :) Thanks all again for your help.

olho: I have a CPC 464 too. Lots of dust and scratches but I never thought to dump it :)

Hehe! I rescued my old

olho — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:06:12 -0700

Hehe! I rescued my old Amstrad CPC464 last year. It’s gathering dust in the spare room now. It works fine, though the Amstrad monitor is unusable — it has a double image. To be honest, I don’t know what to do with it.

I’m glad I don’t have to load tapes on my present machine!

Gotham rounded would work to

Chipman223 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:18:24 -0700

Gotham rounded would work to the same degree Bryant would, but these letters look monospaced, so maybe they would be too wide. Lex is onto something. There HAS to be some typeface based off of the Leroy set. I have a broken set laying around my house, I’ve always wanted to use it.

It leaves a little to be imagined. For those who haven’t seen one of these, when you scribe these letters, the “reverse italic” look is corrected with the tool (this isn’t my set):

Correct me if I’m wrong,

Lex Kominek — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:03:42 -0700

Correct me if I’m wrong, but this looks a lot like kind of lettering you’d get from a standard Leroy set.

- Lex

Bryant was inspired by this

Stephen Coles — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:56:58 -0700

Bryant was inspired by this style of draftsman’s hand lettering.

That looks like standard

chemoelectric — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:18:25 -0700

That looks like standard draftsman’s hand lettering, which is what I would have expected to find.

Thanks for your reply. But I

egemenk — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:42:24 -0700

Thanks for your reply. But I think it’s a little bit different than News Gothic because it has more rounded corners/edges. I’m not very good with fonts and the terminology but News Gothic font didn’t seem to be a perfect match to me. But again thanks for your interest.

Try News Gothic

Robert Trogman — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:31:51 -0700

Try News Gothic

(x) Letters on Amstrad CPC computer keys (1984) - similar to Bryant {Stephen}

egemenk — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:27:47 -0700

This is the font on an Amstrad CPC computer (1984). I’m 3d modeling this machine for a project and i need these fonts for the textures.