EMI front panel font

[creature.of.habit]

Apologies if this is the wrong forum to post this on, but i was wondering if anyone could steer me towards the font used by EMI on the several RS-124 incarnations. I'm in the process of engraving a LA-2 that looks nothing like the original, and really wanted to get an old type/industrial font for it. Can't think of anything better than the stuff used on the valve EMI gear. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[ln76d]

It's really hard to recreate vintage fonts using engraving method.
Don't say it's looks like EMI font, but i had ood result with bebas font, only had to stretch it little bit.

 

[zamproject]

Hi

I first want to say Helvetica but the "R" leg don't match
there is not so many industrial font silkscreened at this time, should be easy to find.
anyway...http://www.identifont.com/index.html

best
Zam

 

[ed rees]

Gil Sans is close. I normally use Helvetica 1L engraving font, the manually correct any glaring differences in CAD.