Track40

Here’s to day 17 of my 2023 Advent of Fonts calendar — a tribute to floppy disks and all the magnetic glory with letter shaped a little like sectors on a track. I’ve always been fascinated by copy protection and the tricks you can pull off on a supposedly pure digital medium to stop it being duplicated.

This is even more extreme on systems that forgo the hardware controller chip (NEC 765A, Intel 8271, or WD1770) to do it all in software such as the Apple 2 or Amiga).

This font comes in to varieties — a small-caps called Upper and a regular lower-case version imaginatively called Lower. Sparing use is advised given the extreme stylization.