I keep going back to the old AT&T phone book fonts like Bell Gothic[0] and Bell Centennial[1] largely because it was designed to be legible at small sizes when

I keep going back to the old AT&T phone book fonts like Bell Gothic[0] and Bell Centennial[1] largely because it was designed to be legible at small sizes when using rather primitive printing methods. In a more modern context I find it works really well on charts and whatnot, even scaled down and compressed a bit more[2]. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Gothic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Gothic 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Centennial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Centennial 2: https://i.imgur.com/9xNgHX9.png https://i.imgur.com/9xNgHX9.png