Does anyone know what's the font used in the following pictures? Indeed this math font is very common in many Russian math/physics textbooks published last century, and it appears in almost all the Russian math textbooks that I've read.
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Sure it's not handwritten? There was some kind of standard technical lettering before the CAD times.– Oleg LobachevApr 6, 2019 at 13:28
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Hi Oleg, thank you very much for pointing this out. I found that some books with the above fonts were published around 1970, even older than the initial release of TeX.– Ce ShenApr 6, 2019 at 13:54
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Welcome to tex.sx. I'm inclined to agree with @OlegLobachev, that these diagrams were prepared by hand. Look carefully at the two "2"s in the second image; they are very similar, but not identical, and I don't think that's the result of a low-resolution scan. This reminds me of results obtained from using a Leroy set. (That was a commonly used drafting tool in the era before computer typesetting became available. The description linked by Oleg is the comparable tool for Cyrillic.)– barbara beetonApr 6, 2019 at 20:27
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OMG I forgot we had rOtring NC-scribers only as recent as 1980's (the dawn of switching from stencils to electronic lettering) pre personal word processors– user170109Apr 7, 2019 at 0:31
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@barbara beeton, thank you very much! There's a slight difference between the two "2"s, and now I believe that these letters and numbers are prepared by hand. According to another post and a paper, it seems that the old Russian or Soviet typographical style hasn't beem implemented hitherto. If so do you have any idea from where the original templates or stencils can be obtained?– Ce ShenApr 7, 2019 at 10:18
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