Teletext50



(please excuse the ugliness of this hastily put together page, I just want to share the fonts...)

This font is a very small tweak to the excellent Bedstead, that switches the smooth diagonal lines for 70s/80s style SAA5050 generated (hence the name '50') characters. All of the hard work was done by the people who built Bedstead and they deserve all of the credit for this font.

It's not as useable as a font as Bedstead, but has different more retro feel, for recreating Teletext pages as they would have looked. For more information about how this font was generated see the original Bedstead pages. The tweaked source that I used is at github.com/glxxyz/bedstead

Click here for a PDF that shows the whole character set.

Available in various widths, click to download .otf font files:

Teletext50 Condensed
Teletext50 Semi Condensed
Teletext50 (Default Width)
Teletext50 Ultra Condensed
Teletext50 Extended
Teletext50 Extra Condensed

(Ultra Condensed and Extra Condensed are used for double height text)

This Sample Text:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ
αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρςστυϕφχψω
АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ
абвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя
אבגדהוזחטיךכלםמןנסעףפץצקרשת
0123456789¼½¾!?.,:;'"‘’“”()[]{}
-—+×÷<=>/\|£$¥¢¤%&*#@¶©®℗
Should look like this:

Teletext50 Characters

Copyright

The program that generates Teletext50, Bedstead and all of the newly-designed glyphs have been released into the public domain.