1403 Vintage Mono™
Line printer vibes. No waiting.
Designed by Jeff Kellem
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Story
1403 Vintage Mono was inspired by the IBM 1403 mainframe line printer from the 1960s. The idea to create the typeface was sparked by Mark VandeWettering wondering aloud if a digital font existed reminiscent of that particular printer. Jeff Kellem began his research for the project but printed samples were minimal, requiring a bit of guesswork for some shapes. He started with the basic 48 glyphs (26 letters, 10 digits, and 12 symbols) used on the 1403 ‘A’ chain. Mixing between the ‘A’ and ‘H’ chains, a few more characters were discovered (e.g.- a square lozenge symbol) and added to the font. Kellem was also able to source a several more glyphs from chains that had been modifed to support Icelandic text.
In the early stages of design, the weight was heavier, slightly wider overall, and spacing was tighter. With rigorous proofing and testing of each iteration, Kellem made critical adjustments. What would become “1403 Vintage Mono Limited.” now had the original 52 characters present in the printer, along with the basic complement of Latin characters and small capitals in place of lowercase characters. The completed font supports Unicode Latin-1 and the Adobe Latin 2 set.
The “Pro” version of 1403 Vintage Mono has a much larger repertoire of glyphs — clocking in at 366 Latin alphabet based languages supported, including: Vietnamese, Catalan, Czech, and Polish. In addition, the Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew scripts are present, increasing support by 77 more languages.
Use 1403 Vintage Mono at display sizes on book and album covers, in film titles, and elsewhere to signal trust and accuracy.
At text sizes, its monospaced quality makes it easy to set text in columns and grids. Furthermore, it lends an appearance of authenticity and officialdom to indices, labels, and documents.
Features
Additional features include: Contextual Alternates, Subscript, Superscript, Discretionary Ligatures, Slashed Zero, Case-Sensitive Forms, Stylistic Sets, Numerators, Denominators, Scientific Inferiors, and Ordinals.
Glyphs
Basic Latin 94
Latin-1 Supplement 95
Latin Extended-A 127
Latin Extended-B 85
IPA Extensions 3
Spacing Modifier Letters 11
Combining Diacritical Marks 28
Greek and Coptic 75
Cyrillic 172
Cyrillic Supplement 6
Hebrew 51
Latin Extended Additional 176
General Punctuation 41
Currency Symbols 15
Letterlike Symbols 24
Arrows 18
Mathematical Operators 45
Geometric Shapes 94
Alphabetic Presentation Forms 33
Dingbats 4
Box Drawing 128
Miscellaneous Symbols 54
Additional Glyphs 206
1403 Vintage Mono supports 435 languages. View our language support page to see which.