Tag Archives: IBM

IBM 1403 inspired typeface update (Vietnamese added)

Posted on 7 August 2013 by slantedhall

I added a first pass at uppercase Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) to my IBM 1403 inspired monospace typeface. So, now, what started as a combination of the 52 characters represented by the A & H chains of the IBM 1403 printer has … Continue reading →

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IBM 1403 inspired typeface update (Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew)

Posted on 24 April 2013 by slantedhall

I’ve been busy. As a break, I added a first pass at uppercase Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew to the IBM 1403 inspired typeface. There are fun challenges in fitting these scripts into a fixed width (especially one set initially for … Continue reading →

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IBM 1403 inspired typeface update

Posted on 27 February 2013 by slantedhall

It’s been about a month since I started designing my IBM 1403 printer inspired typeface (initial post about it with an early sample image).  The typeface has grown from 52 glyphs covering the A and H print chains to over 730 glyphs, … Continue reading →

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An IBM 1403 Printer Inspired Typeface (in progress)

Posted on 23 January 2013 by slantedhall

Backstory The other day, 18 January 2013, Mark VandeWettering (@brainwagon) wondered aloud on twitter about the existence of a typeface reminiscent of the IBM 1403 line printer.  Mark wrote about his path to this query.  Stan Paddock (his 1401 blog) had created a scanned font (artifacts and all) from … Continue reading →

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