Marcin WicharySep 28, 2025

Now *this* is an interface to a computer – or, it seems, specifically its printer – with an aesthetic I have not seen before. (At a Warsaw museum of technology.)

I don’t know much yet about vector fonts. Is this some sort of a standard one, or a unique one? The 7 and C are pretty distinctive.

Show threadMarcin WicharySep 29
Still trying to figure out this font from the prior post! The device is the printer control panel for Odra 1305, a Polish computer from 1973. I have spent a few hours looking at plotter fonts yesterday, but haven’t seen anything that looked quite like the letterforms above.
Show threadBrialaSep 29
@mwichary The sign above it looks a lot like OCR-A. But I bet you already knew that...
Show threadMarcin WicharySep 29
@static except for the mangled “1”
Show threadMagnus AhltorpSep 29
@mwichary @static But the ”1” in ”1974” looks exactly like the OCR-A font. The one above it is just a vertically flipped ”1”.
Show threadSimon Cozens
@ahltorp @mwichary @static Someone swapped the 0 and the O in the main sign and hung the 1 upside down.
Sep 29 at 9:20amWeb
Show threadMagnus AhltorpSep 29

@simoncozens Yes: https://mastodon.nu/@ahltorp/115286666457994883

But the ”1” is not rotated, it’s flipped.

Magnus Ahltorp (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] It says ”0DRA 13O5”, not ”ODRA 1305”. It’s also manually kerned.

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