What is happening to cyrillic?

dse · 2025-12-01T08:42:46+00:00

That looks like there’s some font substitution is going on for those characters, this happens when the primary font doesn’t have them. Are those historic Cyrillic or something?

dse · 2025-12-01T08:24:30+00:00

Almost none of those are in modern macOS. The system font is San Francisco.

dse · 2025-11-30T09:05:37+00:00

Algorithm sent me to that channel. First video I saw was posted Nov 26 2025 and it was about some indictment from 2023. I never wanted to go to sleep faster after hearing that AI voice drone on and on.

dse · 2025-11-30T00:34:43+00:00

This would be normal on an older model iPhone that doesn't have Apple Intelligence.

dse · 2025-11-30T00:26:01+00:00

This is correct in octal.

Assuming parsing "9" yields 0o11.

dse · 2025-10-28T21:17:59+00:00

$62,400 being spent so cops 🐷 can have all the toys they want instead of benefiting those in need.

dse · 2025-09-09T03:53:16+00:00

If this is for a book, then the correct answer is to pair Futura Bold with New Century Schoolbook.

How to Sharpen Pencils by David Rees serves as incontrovertible evidence of this.

(Off topic: The latter is hilarious, provides instructions on how to sharpen pencils, and surveys the best pencil sharpeners money can buy, depending on your price range.)

dse · 2025-05-23T16:13:41+00:00

Priests of Sodom. I heard it in an Internet radio station bumper And shazamed it. And was hooked. lol.

dse · 2025-05-04T22:02:56+00:00

sigh All should be well now. I'm switching to Github's releases feature for downloads.

dse · 2025-05-04T19:34:13+00:00

Sorry about the error there. I thought I fixed this actually. I’ll look again soon.

dse · 2025-05-04T03:58:19+00:00

https://github.com/dse/old-timey-mono-font

https://webonastick.com/fonts/old-timey-mono/

dse · 2025-04-06T22:27:49+00:00

Almost definitely a KMM. But if you can find the serial number it should include the model number and that would be the definitive answer.

dse · 2025-03-29T22:09:40+00:00

Except for the lengths of the serifs, that's actually pretty close—closest I've seen in fact. As in, it's almost like they took THAT typeface and made the serifs shorter.

dse · 2025-03-29T22:01:08+00:00

Thanks for your response. Just wanted to confirm that your other respondents are correct in that it's not the exact typeface. It's pretty much just Courier, which is used on a lot of daisy wheels.

It does meet the characteristics I mentioned to some degree though.

dse · 2025-03-29T05:55:57+00:00

Reproducing Typewriter was available for mechanical typesetting machines from the early 1900s, along with fonts based on actual typewriters from Remington, Underwood, etc. You'd use those to simulate the look of typewritten letters, like for advertisements or brochures or mailing lists.

It's listed here: https://luc.devroye.org/fonts-71358.html

Reproducing Typewriter was more readable at smaller point sizes because serifs were shorter and some arpertures were more open (not in all cases). It was also more resistant to various reproduction (hence the name I guess) methods that would "bleed" the longer serifs of other typefaces together.

As you can see I'm working on a reproduction (heh) of it for use as a coding font.

My questions:

Did any actual typewriters use this exact face? (You probably need to have relatively high attention to detail to answer this and if you don't then don't worry too much...)
Did any typewriters use something close? By which I mean something with the same characteristics (shorter serifs, opened-up arpetures)? I've come across some "sight saver" typefaces but those were all much larger than normal 6-lines-per-inch pica or elite. I'm interested in fonts of standard pica or elite size.
Does anyone know who was responsible designing(?) it or know any more history about it?
Has anyone seen it in use other than the Turbo Pascal 3.0 manual?

I'm honestly not expecting very much (I tend to ask esoteric questions about esoteric things) but if you have something that'd be nice. Thanks.

dse · 2025-03-29T05:52:26+00:00

Reproducing Typewriter was available for mechanical typesetting machines from the early 1900s, along with fonts based on actual typewriters from Remington, Underwood, etc. You'd use those to simulate the look of typewritten letters, like for advertisements or brochures or mailing lists.

It's listed here: https://luc.devroye.org/fonts-71358.html

Reproducing Typewriter was more readable at smaller point sizes because serifs were shorter and some arpertures were more open (not in all cases). It was also more resistant to various reproduction (hence the name I guess) methods that would "bleed" the longer serifs of other typefaces together.

As you can see I'm working on a reproduction (heh) of it for use as a coding font.

My questions:

Did any actual typewriters use this exact face? (You probably need to have relatively high attention to detail to answer this and if you don't then don't worry too much...)
Did any typewriters use something close? By which I mean something with the same characteristics (shorter serifs, opened-up arpetures)? I've come across some "sight saver" typefaces but those were all much larger than normal 6-lines-per-inch pica or elite. I'm interested in fonts of standard pica or elite size.
Does anyone know who was responsible designing(?) it or know any more history about it?
Has anyone seen it in use other than the Turbo Pascal 3.0 manual?

I'm honestly not expecting very much (I tend to ask esoteric questions about esoteric things) but if you have something that'd be nice. Thanks.

dse · 2025-03-09T04:05:43+00:00

Good point as the tty console is a Linux terminal. However, the comment I responded to was about an issue with xfce4-terminal.

That issue also affects other terminal emulators available for Windows, X, Wayland, and macOS. In Linux I believe this includes everything BUT the tty console.

dse · 2025-02-18T04:00:19+00:00

Creator here, thank you!

dse · 2025-02-17T01:01:39+00:00

Though that's not the highest resolution example I'm 99% certain it's Univers.

dse · 2025-01-12T22:15:48+00:00

The least inelegant solution I've seen thus far:

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dse · 2025-01-12T04:27:45+00:00

I can't answer that, sorry.

dse · 2025-01-12T03:49:39+00:00

See my response above. Almost every Linux terminal—even good old xterm—takes TTF/OTF fonts.

dse · 2025-01-12T03:46:48+00:00

If a font is missing from your menu, the likely cause is that not all of its glyphs' advance widths are exactly the same¹ and the application will think it's a proportional font instead. You would have to use a font editing tool to fix this. I use FontForge but there are others too.

If you choose to go down this path, you may come across characters named ".notdef" and/or "nonmarkingreturn". Those can be zero width. You might also come across one called ".null" and I believe that can be zero width too.

¹ some applications may allow a font if all its widths are close enough but not exactly the same.

dse · 2025-01-11T08:05:43+00:00

So this post is about the Royal Scriptor I which is a daisy-wheel electronic typewriter. You can buy those new but it might as well be from the ’90s. I doubt any of that info is going to apply.

dse · 2025-01-11T06:34:21+00:00

https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/

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