Show HN: Teletext TrueType Font

http://www.galax.xyz/TELETEXT/INDEX.HTM

by glxxyz • 6 years ago

22 11 6 years ago

kseistrup4• 6 years ago

Specs or otherwise, it's a pity this font doesn't support at least the full range of Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) characters. Otherwise it looks rad!

glxxyz6• 6 years ago

Yes, it would be good- I was only trying to reproduce the look of an authentic BBC Micro which was sort-of ASCII. The complete Teletext spec lists a lot more characters; probably all of Latin-1 and even Arabic and Cyrillic: http://www.galax.xyz/TELETEXT/TTXTSPEC.PDF

A few people have complained that it was missing characters for Danish, Swedish, and Finnish characters (they also had Teletext-type systems on their TVs. It's on the list of projects I'd like to complete.

kseistrup4• 6 years ago

That's nice to hear. I am Danish, and it is exactly the missing Danish national characters (Æ, Ø and Å) that prevents me from using the font, although having at least Latin-1 would be better.

I don't own a tv, but I often read news headlines from webified teletext at https://www.dr.dk/cgi-bin/fttx1.exe/110 and so I have sometimes contemplated having a personal website in the style of teletext.

mrlonglong• 6 years ago

Ah, the sublime text mode 7 used on the BBC micro. Uses only 1k of memory. Generated using the SAA7070 video chip.

glxxyz6• 6 years ago

You may also be interested to see these BeebFax that Pitfall Jones generated using my font:

1981: http://www.pitfalljones.com/bbc-beebfax/1981/page_100.htm

1982: http://www.pitfalljones.com/bbc-beebfax/1982/page_100.htm

1983: http://www.pitfalljones.com/bbc-beebfax/1983/page_100.htm

1984: http://www.pitfalljones.com/bbc-beebfax/1984/page_100.htm

It was also used for these pages that I know of:

https://www.mortimerbrewing.co.uk/

http://www.aqarius.net/

https://teletext.markgaze.dev/100