- Nov 2024
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www.navy-radio.com www.navy-radio.com
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Thanks to David Ring N1EA, you can download a mill font for Windows computers
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- Oct 2024
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www.calligraphr.com www.calligraphr.com
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https://www.calligraphr.com/en/
Can be used to digitize typewriter typefaces.
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littlewishingstar.wordpress.com littlewishingstar.wordpress.com
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I've generally found that Olympia machines with a dedicated 1 key and a 4/$ key will usually have a script font. Additionally they don't have ribbon selectors (which are most often on the right hand side of the keyboard when they are present) or only have black and stencil settings.
The lack of bichrome settings on these machines is due to the taller/lower extenders on many script glyphs.
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In later units, the absence of a ribbon selector is a good clue, though later units (late ‘60s onwards) offered script with units that had ribbon selectors.
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In earlier units, typewriters that have the letter 1 key is a good clue that it is a script font typewriter.
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- Sep 2024
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typewriterdatabase.com typewriterdatabase.com
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https://typewriterdatabase.com/1964-sears-citation.2600.typewriter
Sears Citations seem to have an above regular frequency for script typefaces. They shipped with red stickers next to the bichrome setting and on the right ribbon cup warning against the use of bichrome ribbon for the tallest script letters on machines which had script typefaces.
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- Aug 2024
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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typographica.org typographica.org
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Typewriter / Typeface: The Legacy of the Writing Machine in Type Design by [[María Ramos]] on July 12, 2016
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- typewriter typefaces
- Kris Sowersby
- variable fonts
- fonts
- Joel Kaden
- Morris F. Benton
- Thomas Sokolowski
- Wim Crouwel
- typewriter fonts
- Tony Stan
- type design
- Georg Salden
- Stephan Müller
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- Andy Clymer
- Erik van Blokland
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- Jul 2024
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munk.org munk.org
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1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Olympia Font Styles
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- Jun 2024
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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You should not have much trouble finding a cubist (aka techno, square, robotic, futuristic, etc.) font or even Vogue; but good luck finding an italic. Of course, if you want to use them instead of collecting typewriters, get an IBM Selectric and a collection of balls.
colloquial advice
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littlewishingstar.wordpress.com littlewishingstar.wordpress.com
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Swiss-made Hermes (3000, Media 3) seems to top the list of the most sought after vintage manuals with script fontAnother popular choice among collectors is the script typewriter debuted by Olivetti Lettera in 1963.Other typewriter manufacturers that offered the script font were Olympia (SM3, SM7, SM8), Adler (Tippa, J4, J5), Royal (Safari, Sahara), Remington (Deluxe 5, Personal Riter), Smith-Corona (Classic 12, Sterling 5A, Galaxie Deluxe 10, Galaxie 11, Galaxie 12, Silent Super), Torpedo 18, Blickensderfer (with cylinder) and IBM (Selectric with typeball)
unreferenced here, so treat as colloquial
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A field guide to hunting down script typewriters. by [[May Tobias-Papa]]
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