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Show HN: Classic Nokia 3310 Dotmatrix Font based on original firmwares

by deejayy on 6/1/24, 1:58 PM with 2 comments

I'm working on a sideproject and while planning, it forked another sideproject to make the main one authentic enough (it is related to classic cellphones), so I started to make this font.

I found one which is not dotmatrix and another one which is not free, so I built this from scratch, hunted down original Nokia firmwares, extracted the font bitmaps to look as original as possible and also added some extras based on existing glyphs. It was a fun ride.

  • by qingcharles on 6/3/24, 2:46 AM

    This is great! Thank you for doing this. I was just expecting a bitmap, not a whole TTF.
  • by mati365 on 6/1/24, 3:21 PM

    Is it legal?