Comment by technol0gic
9 months 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.
> 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.
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.