New font: NearlyQ
A rendering of a 9-pin “Near Letter Quality” dot matrix font. Derived from the character ROM of an Amstrad DMP3160 printer. somebody, somewhere, is probably still producing invoices like this I started work on this in 2017, revisited it in late 2018, forgot about it for a few years and then finally completed it in a couple of days in July 2026.
https://scruss.com/blog/2026/07/19/new-font-nearlyq/
#amstrad #dotmatrix #font #NearLetterQuality #nlq #otf #type #typography #RetroComputing
Stewart Russell
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