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VG5000
Justin Bihan named VG5000 after the 1984 Philips home computer whose video chip drew every character on an 8×10 dot matrix; his revival redraws that grid four times finer, bending curves where the original only had right angles. The character set also carries experimental glyphs for French inclusive writing, ligating gendered endings into single letterforms.
Weights
Served as WOFF2: the same outlines the foundry drew, about 30% smaller over the wire.
Credit & license
Drawn by Justin Bihan, published by Velvetyne under the OFL-1.1 Open Font License. You can use it, freely. Get the files.
Pairs well with
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
Inter — a screen-native sans that shares the digital DNA without the nostalgia.
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
Roboto Mono — retro-computing kinship in a text-setting mono weight.
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
Lora — warm bookishness to contrast the CRT geometry.
The x-ray
Same size, same baseline — VG5000 over Inter. Where they agree the strokes merge; where they argue, fringes.
“Hamburgefonstiv” is the type designer's test word — it carries most of the shapes that give a face away.