Hello, this is my first time crowdsourcing the Typophile community for help with ID'ing a font, so I hope you can help me.
The type I'm looking for was used on a lot of instrument panels in the 1950's and 1960's, (please see photo for reference). It has a very antiseptic, technical quality to it, similar to OCR B (although I know that's not the one.)
If you can hunt this one down or other typefaces that have the same feel, I would be most appreciative.
Fascinating request - I was just about to ask the same thing! I was in a hospital emergency room last night (don't worry, nothing that serious) and I saw the exact same etched typeface, with the distinctive /G/ and the clean style. Doubt it's been digitized or even existed outside whatever signmaking machine produced these, but learning their history would be very interesting.
Most likely done with a Leroy Lettering Machine; a reasonable facsimile thereof resides here...
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/nicksfonts/planscribe-nf/regular/characters...
Bryant Condensed from Process Type Foundry is pretty similar.
Yep, Planscribe is pretty close and works perfectly. Bryant Condensed is also nice. Thanks a bunch!
For future reference:
Engineering Plot by David Kovalchik
LeroyLetteringLightBETA01
Found another variant:
http://www.lineto.com/The%20Fonts/Font%20Categories/Text%20Fonts/Gravur%...
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