Font for DEC indicator panels

[Wayne S]

Dec may have used a customized font. You could recreate it fairly easily using a font utility like Fontographer (my favorite... Really easy to use) or Font lab.
They allow you to take a font that you like and modify the different glyphs to your taste.


Wayne


> On Nov 12, 2018, at 12:04 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> 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
>