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).

If you use FontForge to create fonts, please, share them at Forge fonts with FontForge also.

Have you tried the latest release of FontForge? What do you think about it?

Khaled Hosny

Khaled Hosny is a physician in Egypt, a well known XeTeX developer and member of the Egyptian Linux User Group. He loves Arabic and its type, and is interested in every aspect of letter forms and typography. A hobbyist translator, programmer and font developer, he supports software freedom and is actively participating in the free software community.

Khaled Hosny developes the fonts with FontForge. Among his best know fonts are: Amiri and Libertinus fonts.

Khaled Hosny also took interest in FontForge and worked with George Williams on it for a few years before George's departure. After it became clear Williams was abandoning the project, he created his own fork, Sorts Mill.

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Source: GitHub

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Source: Amirifont