12 Nov
2018
12 Nov
'18
12:54 p.m.
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/