https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy

https://archive.org/details/Tytell_Typewriter_Company_COL_761

An Archive of a Different Type<br /> by [[Jason Scott]] on Internet Archive Blogs accessed on 2026-06-11T10:58:48

https://archive.org/details/typewriter-foundry-marks-haas/mode/1up

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1cffdj8/the_typewriters_of_ripley/

see also, with little to add: https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1s471gq/typewriter_personality_key_to_a_mystery/

It's attempting to recreate a nostalgia for mid-century typewriters that were poorly registered, poorly aligned, typed with cotton ribbon, dirty slugs, and poorly typed. It's a generic version of a ubiquitous pica typeface. The vast majority of typewriters from that era were far better and clearer than the characters represented in the 1942 Report Font. Distinguishing the font from an actual typewriter would be trivial for anyone who regularly uses a typewriter.

Typeface catalogs from the mid-century can be found here for some comparison: https://typecast.munk.org/category/typewriter-typestylesfonts/

1942 Report font https://www.dafont.com/1942-report.font

Reply to SadBeyond6201 at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1qqvvmd/1942_report_font/

Peter V. Tytell, a Typewriter Whisperer, Is Dead at 74 by [[Richard Sandomir]]

https://gfs2000.de/rili_300_de.html

https://www.gfs2000.de/rili_300_en.html

https://schriftexperte.de/en/haas-atlas/

https://schriftexperte.de/en/