Smokeless Joe Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Does anyone know what font is used in the old Atari manuals? The Star Raiders manual gives a good example of it, but the Invitation to Programming series probably uses it more completely. I tried identifont.com and it suggested either "Zapf Humanist 601" or "Optima Nova", both of which look pretty close. I'm trying to write some supplementary information I can stick in my old manuals and I'd like it to look the same. Yeah, that's kinda picky, but so is using a 30+ year old computer. Thanks! -Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irgendwer Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 (edited) - REMOVED - Edited January 31, 2014 by Irgendwer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokeless Joe Posted January 31, 2014 Author Share Posted January 31, 2014 Aw, shucks, I saw someone reply but they deleted it. Made me look! After a little experimenting, it looks like Optima, which came with my iMac as far as I can tell, it just about as close as I could hope for. On the left is a screenshot from a scanned Invitation to Programming 2 manual. On the right is my own attempt to copy it using Apache OpenOffice with the Optima font, 9 point, bold. When I print them both out, stack them and hold them up to the light, the crossover is pretty good. Not perfect, but as Voltaire said, "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 That looks pretty darn close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 It's almost certainly Optima with wider character spacing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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