rbanffy/3270font on Hacker News

Passionate? Bitch please… https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font .

comment by rbanffy · 2026-10-20 · in Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers

Terminal needs a proper font: take mine: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font .

comment by rbanffy · 2026-05-25 · in HN Skins – Read Hacker News in Style

I still prefer mime, based on the classic 3278 terminals, https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

comment by rbanffy · 2025-04-01 · in IBM Plex

Fontforge is the tool I used to create and what I use to maintain my 3270 font, https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font . It has that 1990's Unix workstation vibes, but, if I didn't like vintage tech, I wouldn't make a 3270 terminal font.

comment by rbanffy · 2023-11-27 · in FontForge

You might like this... https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font + comments here... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24646107

comment by Kaibeezy · 2023-09-07 · in IBM 3740 Data Entry System [pdf]

…terminal glyphs like the Powerline symbols¹? I would love to have a ligatured version of that font https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font 1) the last sentence of the article implies that the author of the article abhor them as much as…

comment by nick__m · 2023-05-13 · in Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019)

https://www.codingfont.com doesn't have 3270 ( https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font ), but programmingfonts does: https://www.programmingfonts.org/#font3270

comment by rbanffy · 2023-02-14 · in Modern Mono

https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font Being distributed with Debian and downstreams, 11 years old, with 1.5K stars and 60+ forks is, by far, my most popular open source thing. My biggest shame is that it's not software, but a font that…

comment by rbanffy · 2023-01-27 · in Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

It’s this project I presume: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

comment by layer8 · 2022-07-09 · in Programming Fonts

…who would take seriously a font named after a media player?). Luckily, everyone can get one at https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font . Note: shameless plug ;-)

comment by rbanffy · 2022-02-14 · in MonoLisa – A font designed for developers

…as a base, but they work directly off a fork ( https://github.com/kilobyte/3270font ) of my repo ( https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font ) to generate packages. As far as I understand, Adam publishes many other packages and has an automated…

comment by rbanffy · 2021-08-26 · in Thousands of Debian packages updated from their upstream Git repository

…a permanent status as my go-to font for (personal) monospaced. * the modern, open source revival → https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

comment by Jiocus · 2021-07-28 · in Coding with Character

It’s https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font . It’s a terminal font based on 70’s IBM terminals. It’s been used in art projects and on the cover of a magazine, and it’s offered packaged in the Debian and Ubuntu repos.

comment by rbanffy · 2021-07-15 · in Ask HN: Failed project you spent 15 hours/week for 5 years on?

…a font supporting them correctly. I’m using a zsh prompt that uses them and it seems normal. Check https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font and let me know if it helps. I was thinking of adding the powerline symbols to the test renderings.

comment by rbanffy · 2021-04-03 · in Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

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3270font: A Font for the Nostalgic

story by lelf · 2020-10-01 · 82 comments

…[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial [4] http://idsgn.org/posts/sonoran-the-hidden-truths/ [5] https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font ...and then I saw the username i was responding to. I'll post anyway if you do not want to toot your own…

comment by clan · 2020-05-13 · in Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs

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Ask HN: What typefaces and display technologies were used in the Apollo MOCR?

story by rbanffy · 2020-02-05 · 2 comments

That font in modern formats... https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

comment by tyingq · 2019-12-01 · in Kali Linux Adds 'Undercover' Mode to Impersonate Windows 10

I like 3270font, inspired on 3270 mainframe terminals: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

comment by emersonrsantos · 2019-10-20 · in Lesser Known Coding Fonts

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3270font: A Font for the Nostalgic

story by emersonrsantos · 2019-10-11 · 0 comments

I have used it for testing on different Windows browsers, to check whether https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font would install correctly, and running some Windows software from my bank. The only time I needed the extensions was when I needed…

comment by rbanffy · 2018-12-21 · in VirtualBox 6.0 released

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A 3270 font in a modern format

story by fanf2 · 2018-11-21 · 0 comments

…I had to nitpick because the 3270 is where this beautiful (shameless plug) font originated: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

comment by rbanffy · 2018-11-20 · in IBM z14 Microprocessor and System Control Design

…[1], but I can replace that in a heartbeat with Unscii, which is more uniform and less OCR-y. [1] https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

comment by emersonrsantos · 2018-11-18 · in Unscii – a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics

…I had to recreate it. It's now my most popular GitHub project and is included in the Debian repos: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

comment by rbanffy · 2018-07-31 · in Hello World on z/OS

…A sans-serif, simple and elegant design, modern and yet timeless. I reproduced the 3270's here: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

comment by rbanffy · 2018-01-08 · in Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack

…were their ugliest. No other font of theirs compares to their flagship mainframe terminal product https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font (the original, pixel-by-pixel, is the one used in x3270, from which this was based)

comment by rbanffy · 2018-01-08 · in Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack

I still prefer my IBM-inspired font... https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

comment by rbanffy · 2017-11-15 · in IBM has freed itself from the tyranny of Helvetica

Is there an easy way I can add my font? It doesn't seem to know about it. https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

comment by rbanffy · 2017-11-01 · in WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts

Sorry, but nothing beats the good old IBM 3270 font. https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

comment by rbanffy · 2017-09-15 · in Hack – A typeface designed for source code

For those who miss the 3270 terminals, I made this: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font Won't turn your keyboard into a beam-spring one, but it still feels cool.

comment by rbanffy · 2017-09-07 · in Release of GnuCOBOL 2.2

Shameless plug: Also, not pixel-perfect and with many symbols absent from the original, is https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font . Sadly, it never made it to the PCs, being confined to mainframe terminals.

comment by rbanffy · 2017-07-04 · in A collection of text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era PCs

…started up with a black on white CGA font on a 3278. And, of course, booting into PC-DOS. I made https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font for a reason.

comment by rbanffy · 2017-06-28 · in Typecasting: The Use and Misuse of Period Typography in Movies (2001)

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3270font: A font for the nostalgic

story by emersonrsantos · 2016-12-20 · 0 comments

My font package is not. I am curious as to why would that be. Can you give me a hand with that? https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

comment by rbanffy · 2016-08-02 · in Debian and Tor Services Available as Onion Services

https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font/releases/tag/v1.2.15 A bit early.

comment by rbanffy · 2016-06-23 · in How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters

Just added the group mark (and these power symbols) to https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font/tree/develop . It was fun. Thanks for giving me an excuse. http://imgur.com/Sx0lkM8

comment by rbanffy · 2016-06-23 · in How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters

…I'll add these (and the IBM-related symbols @kens mentioned, which are specially appropriate) to https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font for the next release (this weekend, I think - still lots of Cyrillic cleanup to do in the develop branch).

comment by rbanffy · 2016-06-23 · in How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters

I'd fork it and add a sample of https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font (more like a terminal font than a programming one) if I had a Windows machine with Sublime Text on hand. Can you add it for me?

comment by rbanffy · 2016-06-20 · in Space Mono

https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font In case you didn't already know that this exists.

comment by engi_nerd · 2016-05-17 · in Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

…recently dropped support for them, gtk support is hit and miss. Where I can't use Tamsyn I use https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font I like fonts that are easily readable when small so I can get more screen realestate, and bitmaps are the…

comment by Tiksi · 2016-05-07 · in Ask HN: What font do you use while programming?

…copied it pixel by pixel from a real terminal. May not be your piece of cake, but you can try it: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font When I can't use it, Terminus is a favorite. A long time ago I added a central dot to Luxi Mono's 0 and…

comment by rbanffy · 2015-08-30 · in Hack: A typeface designed for source code

…try it. http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/ https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font ;-)

comment by rbanffy · 2015-08-30 · in Hack: A typeface designed for source code

…vintage feeling. Makes me want to get a NEWS workstation... My terminals go for the 3278 looks: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font (but that'll probably not work with xterm)

comment by rbanffy · 2015-05-01 · in Input: Fonts for Code and Data

You may want to use a more appropriate font. https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

comment by rbanffy · 2015-03-13 · in COBOL on Wheelchair

…perfect text editors. Also, he managed to make his font work on WIndows. I never did it with mine ( https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font )

comment by rbanffy · 2014-07-25 · in Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer

Would anyone like to give a hand with https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font so we could build a 3270 theme?

comment by rbanffy · 2014-07-03 · in Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

It's https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font , which is based on the x3270 bitmap fonts which were, in turn, copied pixel by pixel from an IBM 327x terminal, IIRC, from an undergrad student in Georgia Tech. The idea is to bring back some of…

comment by rbanffy · 2014-04-27 · in Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

…is completely unrelated to my day job, but we all have hobbies. Also, about a week ago, I fixed https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font so now it works with https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell

comment by rbanffy · 2014-04-27 · in Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

…encoding (EBCDIC probably). I may look into converting it later. There's also one a copy at https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font , and you may be able to find a better copy by doing more searching.

comment by sdkmvx · 2014-04-14 · in Meyrin: CERN Terminal Font