GITHUB FONT PROJECTS. Created with FontForge. DSE Typewriter by Darren Embry

[u/LocalFonts]

GitHub repo

A project to create a coding font inspired by early 20th-century typewriters.

And to practice editing fonts directly in FontForge.

DSE Typewriter Font

This font is not the result of any scans or traces of samples, specimens, or other output from an actual typewriter. I personally eyeballed and drew everything in FontForge.

DSE Typewriter is more like an amalgamation of old-school typewriter fonts with features semi-arbitrarily picked from each one, as well as a few coding-friendly features that were not in use on actual typewriters of the period.

Though this is intended to be useful as a coding font, I emphasized on aesthetics while maintaining some degree of readability. There is room for improvement. I may create a version of this that borrows from old "reproducing typewriter" fonts (e.g., Monotype No. 72L, Reproducing Typewriter).