Font used on silver faceplate of vision

[Osgeld]

I am looking for the font used on the colecovision, not the coleco logo but like where it says "video game system" or "Expansion module interface" or " insert cartridge here" on the main unit

 

anyone have any pointers?

Edited November 19, 2016 by Osgeld

[Milli V]

Take good photo and upload it to http://whatthefont.com

[Osgeld]

yea that worked, thanks

[Ikrananka]

And what was the outcome?

[Osgeld]

Closest it found was OPTIMA

 

http://www.freefontsdownload.net/free-optima-font-39.htm

[Ikrananka]

Closest it found was OPTIMA

 

http://www.freefontsdownload.net/free-optima-font-39.htm

Thanks

[SJD69]

The font is called "Corporate". More info here:

https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/42847/corporate

 

and available here:

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1044847/av05_logotype

 

You're welcome.

Edited March 21, 2022 by SJD69

[Falonn]

Ooo, whatthefont.com is an amazing tool!

 

After some poking around: the font used on the title pages of TI's old TMS-era datasheets and programmer's guides is "Goudy Old Style Extrabold".  This version matches very closely.  The one available through Creative Cloud's fonts--with "Extra Bold" as two separate words--is also close, each having their own (very!) minor, non-overlapping differences.

 

Here is the font (in blue) overlaid on a scan (in black) from the VDP Programmer's Guide title page:

 

 

 

It was more painstaking to track down the font used in the body (because it's so generic), but Linotype's CG Times seems extraordinarily close, so long as you dial the "tracking" down a few points to squeeze the letters a little closer together.

 

From a scan vs. typed into Illustrator:

 

 

I didn't have any luck with the sans serif font used in their data tables, but really, you could use just about anything there and get away with it.  So that detail aside, now we can make authentic-looking period data sheets.