Workbench

Font Technology

Variable Font with 2 axes

BLED (BLED): 0–100

SCAN (SCAN): -53–100

How To Use Workbench

To use Workbench in your web project, either search Google Fonts and use their embed code or host the font on your server and use the CSS below. Note: fonts served by Google Fonts may be missing some OpenType features that are available in the original font.

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@font-face {
  font-family: 'Workbench';
  src: url('<YOUR SERVER PATH>Workbench[BLED,SCAN].ttf') format(woff2);
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-stretch: 100%;
  font-style: normal;
}

Description

Workbench and Sixtyfour fonts are inspired by the article Raster CRT Typography (According to DEC) by Norbert Landsteiner. They are a rework of some old pixel versions of the Commodore 64 and Amiga Workbench fonts the author created years ago. The fonts now include two custom axes: Scanlines , which allows control of the height of the lines and, as a result of this, the amount of vertical space between the lines. And Bleed to change the amount of horizontal bleed of the pixels due to the phosphor latency found in CRT displays. Due to this project's specificity and the fonts' historical origin, they only support a limited set of glyphs. To contribute, see github.com/jenskutilek/homecomputer-fonts

Designer

Jens Kutílek

Jens Kutílek is a type designer and font engineer based in Berlin. After receiving a degree in Graphic Design, he worked at the FontFont Type Department, and also published two commercial type families through the FontFont label, FF Hertz and FF Uberhand. Jens gave presentations about font technology at typography events across Germany and taught a type design course at the Braunschweig University of Arts. He also released a number of open source fonts, like his coding font Sudo. Since 2016, Jens has been working at the LucasFonts studio with a focus on variable font production and font tool development.

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