Levente Szabadkai traced the Commodore 64 keyboard font from photographs and released it as a free vector font on GitHub in multiple formats. The font was never digitized officially, leaving a 40-year gap between the hardware and any usable file.
The release is uppercase only, matching the original hardware. It includes all punctuation, every PETSCII glyph, function key labels, and the Commodore logo character. Szabadkai notes minor variations between C64 models, visible in details like solid versus outlined cursor arrows. That specificity is what makes the full repository worth examining.
If keyboard font history interests you, the original article links to prior Hackaday coverage of the Gorton font, the engraving typeface that became the default for industrial keyboard production and explains why so many keypads from different eras look identical.
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