On 2018-11-12 3:04 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > So, anyone happen to know the font used in DEC's indicator panels: > > http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/DECIndicatorPanels.html > > or, at least, a very close match? > > For mockups we're doing, Dave B is using 'DejaVu Sans', but that's not a > really close match: the vertical bars are wider than in the DEC font, where > the verticals and horizontals are the same width. > > It would be nice to have a closer match when we go to turn out replicas. > (We're just about settled on the format for the QSIC RKV11-F/RPV11-D panels.) > > Noel > >
I took a quick look... None of them are DIN, for what it's worth. It's somewhat close to Akzidenz Grotesk[1] - around Medium weight. The TC08 looks slightly compressed horizontally, so you might need to play with weights and transformations and letter spacing a little bit to match actual panels. To narrow it down farther I think we would need much better quality images. --Toby [1] https://www.bertholdtypes.com/font/akzidenz-grotesk/proplus/
