1964 Olympia Typewriter Type Styles Fonts
Category: Typewriter Typestyles/Fonts
1915 Hammond Typestyles Font Catalog
1915 Hammond Typestyles Font Catalog
1973 Dreusicke Special Typeface Font Catalog
1973 Dreusicke Special Typeface Font Catalog
1970 – Rarotype Typeface and Font Catalog
1970 – Rarotype Typeface and Font Catalog And a 1972 Addendum:
1920 Ransmayer-Rodrian Typeface Font Catalog
Another one from the group of Typospherians in 2014.
1962 Hermes Typewriter Typeface Catalog
1962 Hermes Typewriter Typeface Catalog.
1970 Facit Typewriter Typefaces Font Catalog
1970 Facit Typewriter Typefaces Font Catalog
1957 Dreusicke Typestyles Fonts Catalog
Another one digitized by a team of Typospherians in 2014.
1932 Ransmayer Rodrian Typestyles List E
Another one digitized by a team of Typospherians in 2014.
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: Underwood-Olivetti Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: Smith Corona SCM Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: Royal Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: Remington Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: RC Allen Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
1975 Royal Typewriter Typeface Catalog
1975 Royal Typewriter Typeface Catalog, From the Collection of Kirk Jackson.
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: Packard Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces. “Packard” was a rebranding of a Hermes Baby clone from the mid-late 1960’s, and wasn’t sold for very long. I have no idea how they got a spot in the WOMDA typeface catalog for their very limited 1 Elite and 1 Pica typeface selection. :D
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: Olympia Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: Imperial Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: IBM Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: Hermes Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: Facit Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: California Retyping Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces. CRC was a company that would take in the dealer’s used stock of machines with worn, damaged or undesirable type and they’d replace the slugs with new ones. These are the typefaces that got put on probably many thousands of used typewriters of nearly any brand, so […]
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: Adler Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
1968 IBM Composer Typewriter Font Typestyle Catalog
1960 Union Foundry Typewriter Type Slug Specifications
This one is less a typestyle catalog and more about technical specifications of the typeslugs, keytops and other products offered to typewriter manufacturers by Union. Want to know how to read the markings on type slugs? There’s some of that here. Want to know what size key rings are on an Orga Privat, a Kappel […]
1953 IBM Executive Typewriter Brochure & Type Samples
1953 IBM Executive Typewriter Brochure & Type Samples
1961 Adler Typewriter Type Font Styles
When someone purchased a particular Adler Primus serial number 3141007 in 1961, it would be clear to later investigators (me) that the purchaser was very interested in choosing just the right typeface for thier new portable typewriter. They had requested from the dealer a full typestyles catalog, chosen Ransmayer & Rodrian #84 Ra (Elite Imperial) […]
1954 Smith-Corona (SCM) Typewriter Type Styles and Keyboards Catalog
Here’s where I start when trying to identify the typeface on a Smith-Corona typewriter, and where I’m most successful in getting an ID. This PDF got passed to me almost a decade ago, but I’m not sure from where. Sadly, it’s a very dark, low-contrast scan, and not much can be done about it. The […]
1939 Type Styles for Remington Typewriters
An excellent reference for especially pre-WW2 Remington typefaces. Much more than just a listing of faces, including what machines certain faces can be found on, what keyboards they were matched with, possible letter spacings and line heights, plus a special section on Noiseless types.
1928 Alfred Ransmayer & Albert Rodrian (RA/AR) Typewriter Typeface Font Reference Catalog
When I am working on identifying a typeface with the slug markings “R” or “AR”, or if the markings are not provided, I will make my first lookup in the “1928 RaRo A-B” catalog, which contains the typeface offerings of the Alfred Ransmayer & Albert Rodrian foundry as of 1928. These typefaces show up very […]
Fifty Posts a Month Soon? :D
Weapon of Choice: “Thunderbird 2” 1968 Montgomery Ward Signature 440T #B8860433 Obligatory Desk Cat Boomer basks in the warmth of my old vertical monitor.
Third Score of the 2022 Typewriter Hunting Season: 1956 Olympia SM3 (the perks of paying attention in TCL chat)
Weapon of Choice: “Jubal Harshaw” 1956 Olympia SM3 #785328 1956 Olympia SM3 #785328 (Hunter Teresa C’s collection) So the Typewriter Gods decided that a gifted Hot Rod Typewriter in swirly purple & silver wasn’t an amazing enough way to end out the 2022 Typewriter Hunting Season. I know, that’s pure crazy talk, but here’s the […]
Montgomery Ward Typewriters 1941-1985, Signatures, Forwards and Escorts and why certain rare Royal Typefaces can be found on Brother Typewriters!
Weapon of Choice: “Thunderbird 2” 1968 Montgomery Ward Signature 440T #B8860433 It’s been a bit since I’ve browsed through Muse Technical’s Department store catalog archive, but the other night someone asked about an 80’s-era Penncrest machine on the FB – and that set me to looking at the archive again. What I’ve found is that […]
The Story of Vertical Script (AKA: “Script 46 Ra”, “Oxford Script”)
While working on the “Typewriter Typefaces Bible” project, I’ve collected over 50 typeface references together spanning from 1915 through 1993. This is probably still just a thin sample of what was produced over those years, but it is still extremely useful in figuring out what typefaces were available during what years and on what machines. […]
Soldering Typeface to Typebar & Use of Type Gauge S-221
The More You Know: Using typeface alignment tool and repairing or replacing typeface slugs. From: The Royal FP, MC Empress, 440 & 470 Typewriter Repair Shop Manual – 426 Pages.