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1964 Olympia Typewriter Type Styles Fonts

1915 Hammond Typestyles Font Catalog

1973 Dreusicke Special Typeface Font Catalog

1970 – Rarotype Typeface and Font Catalog And a 1972 Addendum:

Another one from the group of Typospherians in 2014.

1962 Hermes Typewriter Typeface Catalog.

1970 Facit Typewriter Typefaces Font Catalog

Another one digitized by a team of Typospherians in 2014.

Another one digitized by a team of Typospherians in 2014.

1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.

1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.

1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.

1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.

1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.

1975 Royal Typewriter Typeface Catalog, From the Collection of Kirk Jackson.

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 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.

1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.

1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.

1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.

1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.

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 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.

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

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) […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]