Keyboard fonts

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A wide variety of fonts have been used for keycap legends over time. Due to the nature of double-shot moulding, vintage keycaps used more rounded typefaces. Modern dye-sub and pad printing techniques allow for exquisite typography on keycaps. Some brands also prefer or have preferred the use of italics for keycaps, in particular Apple and Diatec.

Ducky Corp

Ducky Shining

Legend Font

Helvetica. picture

Cherry Corp

Cherry G80-3000 Doubleshot

Legend Font

Bubbly Sans - Link to Sixty Quote for specifics

It's a custom line font (pen plotter) based on Helvetica; Helvetica Rounded is close, with some notable differences, mainly a simplified the lower case t and a six sided *.
For a preview of every key on a standard ANSI Keyboard please refer to Cherry legends.

bubbly font

Cherry MX-Board 2.0

Legend Font

Myriad

IBM

Model F, Model M

Badge Font

Paul Rand details Metro?

Legend Font

Helvetica (Selectric typewriter like number row)

Logitech

K400 Wireless With Touchpad

Badge Font

Praxis

Legend Font

20th Century?