Simon techno typeface for Blickensderfer

Now that is a little perverse: implementing ultra-modern, science-fiction inspired typeface for ancient, manual typewriter. Ain’t it?

But why not?
I am a big fan of Simon Stålenhag. Really good, hard science-fiction.
In one of his albums there is a line showing an old computer printout. I fell in love with this typeface! How about implementing it on Blick?
It is just two sentences so not the whole alphabet is used. I had to draw remaining letters to match the esthetics.

At first I thought it is a typeface used in Alien series. Nope.
OK, then maybe Blade Runner? Nope.
So Amiga or Atari? Well, also “nope” but that led me to super inspiring website driven by enthusiast who preserves old Atari typefaces: https://atari8bit.net/projects/artwork/atari-fonts/

I’ve contacted Steve and he kindly allowed me to post a few screenshots of these fonts. These were ones I used to draw my typeface, to resemble the one used by Simon Stålenhag in his book.

I chose these which have a “serif” - dark pixel - at the base of a letter. They are not exactly as in Simon’s book but resemble it well enough to be helpful in my project. Besides - as these are available for download on Steve’s page - I may implement them as well!

I’ve called my typeface Simon techno. It took a few implementations to nail it, below is one almost finished - with some mistakes in number 7 and too narrow space between letters.

With final corrections there it is, with slightly thicker letters, a bit more spaced from each other and with R made differently from Simon’s, to distinguish it more from letter A when printed on Blick:

As I was feeling playful I made an opposite version - stencils - of this typeface. Kind of playing with my previous struggles to get rid of artifacts around letters. This one is all but artefacts, with letter not printed:

Well, obviously a partial success. It is too difficult to read and requires really heavy inking. What inspired me was -again - a branch of such fonts on Steve’s page:

So what is next?
Well, one of Atari typefaces for sure!