#typewriters

[nemfrog]

Print ad for Olivetti Lettera 22. Zodiac 1957: Issue 1.

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[escuerzoresucitado]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Wow, well, there's a use for an old typewriter.

[fontseeker]

Hello! Do you have any resources for finding fonts used in typewriters? My parents have an antique Underwood model 5 (1930), and I've had no luck finding its font. Thanks!

Apparently different versions of the model 5 used slightly different fonts. There's several digital fonts based on Underwood typewriters, although they might not match yours exactly: try My Underwood, Underwood 319, Underwood 1913, or Underwood Champion.

All of these are based on the actual output of a typewriter, with all its imperfections. A clean, idealized version (like Courier) doesn't seem to exist. A metal version of at least one Underwood font was created for letterpress printing, but it doesn't seem to have ever been digitized:

[my-preferred-reality-blog]

Good morning ☀️

[shiftythrifting]

Memes and uranium glass in Snohomish, WA

Gamer Supps™ taste best when served in a uranium glass punch bowl

[petermorwood]

before computers, did public libraries have typewriters folks could come in and use?

Yes they did. Old...

...to new.

What's interesting to me is the suggestion that being able to type was a common enough skill - or capability, anyway, speaking as someone who's hunt-and-pecked through a bunch of novels, short stories and screenplays - that these machines were worth installing.

(Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft of "Fahrenheit 451" on a coin-operated typewriter.)

[thatsbelievable]