Font for DEC indicator panels

[Toby Thain]

On 2018-11-18 12:44 p.m., Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
> On 2018-11-13 10:21 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
>>     > From: Toby Thain
>>
>>     > To get closer I'd need better images of the panels.
>>
>> Hi, I borrowed a DEC inlay from someone (a KA10 CPU bay) and scanned a chunk
>> of it (as much as I could fit into my A4 scanner :-) at 200 dpi:
>>
>>   http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/jpg/KACPUPanel.jpg
>>
>> I have a TC08 inlay, but it's currently being used in my QSIC display (until
>> we can get the RKV11-F/RPV11-D inlay done :-), and I didn't want to yank it
>> out. As far as I can tell, it's the same font on the two of them.
>>
>>
>>     > the closest I know of off the top of my head is Akzidenz Grotesk.
>>
>> The Akzidenz Grotesk Medium is indeed very, very close (other than the zero).
> 
> (And the "Q")
> 
>> Do you happen to know if that font available for use in non-commercial
>> settings?
> 
> I just noticed this free font which is also rather close (has a slashed
> Q, at least):
> 
>   https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/hk-grotesk
> 
> Try the SemiBold weight.

Another non-free font very much in the same genre, that I recently
found, is FF Infra (though I wasn't able to check its lining numerals in
the online tester):

https://www.fontshop.com/families/ff-infra

> 
> --Toby
> 
> 
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> 	Noel
>>
>