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Departure Mono – a monospaced pixel font with lo-fi technical vibe

departuremono.com

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Probably the nicest website i've ever seen for something like this! Oh, and the font is cool too...

The Marvin Visions site is awesome too, though some not like the initial scrolling section at the beginning:

https://www.readvisions.com/marvin

Reminds me of digital organizers from the 90's. I still have a working TI PS-6700, which my father used back then. I replace the battery once in in a while to keep the data. Meanwhile it has an uptime of almost 30 years.

Here's a direct link to the font for those like me who couldn't get the site to load: https://departuremono.com/assets/DepartureMono-1.346.zip

That's a really nicely done website (and font!)!

This font is beautiful, thanks for sharing.

I really like the noisy half-filled box instead of a more common regular pattern.

I feel like my prayers have been answered, was looking for a good pixel font for the web and this seems like what I need! It's also monospaced so I can use it for programming

Unless you want to impose blurry fonts onto your visitors, this font won't be it unfortunately. The required increments of 11px to display a crisp font with DepartureMono makes your content either too small (11px) for most people to read, or too large (22px) to look good.

I am always saddened by landing pages like this, because they communicate an idea that only works in very specific cases. Are you looking to use this font for a similarly polished, "Apple"-style landing page that is form-over-function? Then this font clearly is for you. But on 99% of pages that have actual content on them this font likely won't work, as much as I, too, would like for it to.

Tangential, on the "lo-fi" theme: Looking at old stuff, I like how typewritten documents with charts literally pencilled in have a certain not-quite-perfect, straight-from-the-lab feel to them. By contrast, anything produced using modern methods, be they TeX or Pages.app, looks so damn... finished, for want of a better word (and any imperfections become jarring, rather than charming). What’s a good way of getting that feel, without resorting to downright emulation of low-tech methods (monospaced or even pixel-based fonts, that xkcd graph look for matplotlib, ...)? (Edit: grammar)

The Routed Gothic font has 60-70s technical drawing vibes https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/

Yes, I love that font, and “DSE Typewriter” by the same creator. However, using them means emulating low tech, and I would like to find a way to avoid that.

I tried designing one of those SSH attack-map websites based around the interfaces in 2001: A Space Odyssey, like these here[1]. It was difficult, I was trying "emulation of low-tech methods" as you said. I think if you could run a shader over top of a web page it'd be easier. I didn't research it that deeply but I don't think that's really a supported use case for web shaders, it would block inputs from using the website if I'm understanding correctly.

1. https://ilikeinterfaces.com/tag/2001-a-space-odyssey/

Love this!

I'm going to try using for programing.

Dang that’s nice

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