I recently had a project with a vintage Magazine Logo and needed to get something similar to the font used.
It was hand drawn and nothing quite right was out there.
So I found an AI thing that was actually helpful.
mixfont.com made a very passable version of it. I showed it the logo and it spat out a font. It would not work well for a lot of things, and a few bad characters were generated, but I mostly just needed the numbers.
I hate AI, but if it’s used sparingly and only as a tool I have been known to hold my nose and just get the job done. Here’s the thread where I was asking about it and some examples of what it did.