Workbench
Designed By
Jens Kutílek
1 Style Monospace
Type Specimen / 01Il1 O0
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Workbench · Regular
Compare letter widths, punctuation and figures in an aligned setting.
1 style available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Workbench ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
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Every Position Counts
Workbench · Regular
Equal-width letters and figures.
Specimen.js
const family = "Workbench";
function specimen(size) {
return { family, size };
}
specimen(24);0123456789
9876543210
Il1 O0 {} []
1 Style,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
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Years ago Jens Kutílek drew pixel versions of the Commodore 64 and Amiga Workbench fonts. Workbench, with its sibling Sixtyfour, is the rework, and what set it off was Norbert Landsteiner’s essay Raster CRT Typography (According to DEC), on how type was rendered on raster CRT screens.
The full variable version has 2 custom axes. Scanlines sets the height of each pixel row and with it the dark gap between rows, and Bleed smears the pixels sideways the way phosphor lag did on an old monitor. The file on this page is the static Regular: monospaced, 217 characters, held to a small set on purpose because of where it comes from.
A game’s title screen or a fake terminal in a film prop, at large sizes, is where we’d put it.
Characters & Figures
217 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 213 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Workbench
1 TTF style with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 8 KB ↓- Version
- 2.001
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/workbench/workbench.css">
body {
font-family: 'Workbench', monospace;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Workbench Heading · Inter Body
Letters, Figures & Code
Names, values and punctuation share a fixed rhythm. Compare the zero with the capital O, and the number one with the lowercase l.