Reminds me of digital organizers from the 90's.
I still have a working TI PS-6700, which my father used back then. I replace the battery once in in a while to keep the data. Meanwhile it has an uptime of almost 30 years.
I feel like my prayers have been answered, was looking for a good pixel font for the web and this seems like what I need! It's also monospaced so I can use it for programming
Unless you want to impose blurry fonts onto your visitors, this font won't be it unfortunately. The required increments of 11px to display a crisp font with DepartureMono makes your content either too small (11px) for most people to read, or too large (22px) to look good.
I am always saddened by landing pages like this, because they communicate an idea that only works in very specific cases. Are you looking to use this font for a similarly polished, "Apple"-style landing page that is form-over-function? Then this font clearly is for you. But on 99% of pages that have actual content on them this font likely won't work, as much as I, too, would like for it to.
Tangential, on the "lo-fi" theme: Looking at old stuff, I like how typewritten documents with charts literally pencilled in have a certain not-quite-perfect, straight-from-the-lab feel to them. By contrast, anything produced using modern methods, be they TeX or Pages.app, looks so damn... finished, for want of a better word (and any imperfections become jarring, rather than charming). What’s a good way of getting that feel, without resorting to downright emulation of low-tech methods (monospaced or even pixel-based fonts, that xkcd graph look for matplotlib, ...)? (Edit: grammar)
Yes, I love that font, and “DSE Typewriter” by the same creator. However, using them means emulating low tech, and I would like to find a way to avoid that.
I tried designing one of those SSH attack-map websites based around the interfaces in 2001: A Space Odyssey, like these here[1]. It was difficult, I was trying "emulation of low-tech methods" as you said. I think if you could run a shader over top of a web page it'd be easier. I didn't research it that deeply but I don't think that's really a supported use case for web shaders, it would block inputs from using the website if I'm understanding correctly.
