Old Timey Mono 适合于做时钟的复古等宽字体（英文）

A clean monospace typeface based on Reproducing Typewriter which was available as early as 1906.
Reproducing Typewriter was designed for simulating typewritten letters in smaller point sizes for advertisements, catalogs, etc., where readability and/or distortion resulting from duplication were issues with faces based on actual typewriters at the time.

“Sight Saver” typewriter faces designed for readability were also available, though they were at larger sizes than ordinary pica or elite typefaces.

I developed Old Timey Mono because I thought those characteristics would make it a good basis for a coding font with an antique aesthetic. You may have seen Reproducing Typewriter used in the Turbo Pascal 3.0 product manual.

At a size of 12pt (6 lines per inch), Old Timey Mono is a pica font, or 10 characters per inch, like Courier. It should be suitable for screenplay writing.

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用 DeepL 翻译了一下，并做了点手工校对：

A clean monospace typeface based on Reproducing Typewriter which was available as early as 1906.

这是一种简洁的等宽字体，基于早在 1906 年就出现的 Reproducing Typewriter^[1]。

Reproducing Typewriter was designed for simulating typewritten letters in smaller point sizes for advertisements, catalogs, etc., where readability and/or distortion resulting from duplication were issues with faces based on actual typewriters at the time.

Reproducing Typewriter 是专为广告、目录等模拟较小字号^[2]的打字字母而设计的，因为当时基于实际打字机的字面存在可读性和/或复制造成的变形问题。

“Sight Saver” typewriter faces designed for readability were also available, though they were at larger sizes than ordinary pica or elite typefaces.

此外，还有专为提高可读性而设计的 “Sight Saver” 打字机字体，不过它们的尺寸要比普通的pica^[3] 字体或 elite^[4] 字体大。

I developed Old Timey Mono because I thought those characteristics would make it a good basis for a coding font with an antique aesthetic. You may have seen Reproducing Typewriter used in the Turbo Pascal 3.0 product manual.

我之所以开发 Old Timey Mono 字体，是因为我认为它的这些特点将使其成为具有古典美感的编码字体的良好基础。你可能在 Turbo Pascal 3.0 产品手册中见过 Reproducing Typewriter。

At a size of 12pt (6 lines per inch), Old Timey Mono is a pica font, or 10 characters per inch, like Courier. It should be suitable for screenplay writing.

Old Timey Mono 字体的大小为 12pt（每英寸 6 行），是一种皮卡字体，即每英寸 10 个字符，就像 Courier 字体一样。它应该适合剧本写作。

1. 应该是一种字体的名称，这里没有翻译。 ↩︎

2. point size 是字号的一种单位。 ↩︎

3. pica 是一种印刷字母规格和字行长度单位。下文有解释，即 “6 lines per inch”。 ↩︎

4. 结合上下文来看可能也是一种字符大小单位。 ↩︎

话说回来，个人感觉这个字体真的挺好看的。以前看见的有衬线英文字体，基本上只有 Times New Roman 及类似的字体：

它们的特点是，字符笔画的端点上有尖角，而且不同笔画的粗细并不完全一致。

可能是因为在各种公文，以及报刊上见得比较多，一直感觉这种字体比较严肃。

直到后来，看见了罗森的店铺招牌，才知道还有其他类型的衬线字体：

这种字体，笔画粗细一致，而且衬线没有尖角。不太清楚这种风格应该怎么称呼，但个人感觉这种设计比 Times New Roman 那种柔和一些。

确实是，衬线字体一是历史悠久，二来传统纸媒大多仍坚持使用衬线体，所以容易给人这种感觉。

查了一下，应该是叫“粗衬线”，典型例子有 Courier 等（常用于打字机，许多用于计算机和编程的等宽字体等受此影响也采用了粗衬线）。讨论贴主题的 Old Timey Mono 字体应该也属于这一类。