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by technol0gic 491 days ago
it also facilitates legibility, especially at a slight distance, as well as distortion (squishing, stretching) if necessary.

Both of which are objectively desirable qualities of a font with massive control panels as its native habitat.
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rsynnott 491 days ago
> it also facilitates legibility, especially at a slight distance, as well as distortion (squishing, stretching) if necessary

Except for the terrible, terrible ‘0’, which looks more or less identical to the ‘O’. IIRC sometimes similar fonts had a strike-through 0 for legibility; I think the BBC Micro keyboard did, for instance.

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bjclark 491 days ago
The BBC Micro keycaps were made by Comptec (mentioned in the article) in Gorton Modified. Source: I work at signature plastics and have seen the original tooling for it.
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