This font will look very familiar to many but few know of it.
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This font / type-face is also found in older documentation or manuals, used for subheads or for illustrations. I’ve been looking for this quite a bit, in the past.
As far as I can see, for a free font Routed Gothic (which is really an engraving font) is the best approximation.
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My first thought was that this is off-topic, but no, it’s seen on (older) keyboards
Many keyboards, especially older ones, sported a particular distinctive font on their keycaps. It was unusually square in proportions, and a weird mélange of “mechanical” and “childish.”
From the article (which is by Marcin Wichary)
The strangeness extended to the digits. There was a top-flatted 3 resembling a Cyrillic letter, 7 sloping down in a unique way, a very geometric 4, an unusual – perhaps even naïve – symmetry between 6 and 9, and a conflation of O with 0 that would be a fireable offense elsewhere.
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Yeah, sorry, I should have explained a little bit more on why this is computing. Retro, definitely.
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No problem - but if you get a chance to copy-paste an image from an article, or a sentence or two, that will often help!
It’s also found on punched cards. It’s really the all-purpose font of a forgotten era that never made it into the digital age.
Most often, all the variable, task-specific print is in Gorton, compare the above specimen. Apparently, the column codes come already with the standard stock and anything related to the purpose and any zone markings is Gorton.
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I believe this is the font on the SAIL and Knight keyboards.
This is, incidentally, a Teletype Model 28 keyboard. From the TAPE B.SP. key I believe it is probably an ASR.
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