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 […]
Category: Typography
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. […]
An OCR-A Typeface Adler and Let’s Make Our Own Royal Portable Foot Screwdriver!
Weapon of Choice: “Moroni” 1975 Adler Universal 200 #9668314 Another identical LDS-owned OCR-A Adler U200 is in the TWDB, 18,818 serials off from mine – apparently the Mormons bought a bunch of these data entry typers in 1975. 1975 Adler Universal 200 #9649496 My original purpose for going to MTE was to borrow Bill’s Royal […]
New PDF downloads in the Typewriter Database File Library for Typewriter Hunters!
New PDF downloads in the Typewriter Database File Library for Typewriter Hunters! Buncha new NOMDA Blue Books and some Olympia, Underwood and SCM dealer literature. Enjoy! File area is here, after you’ve logged in with a Typewriter Hunter account:
Typewriter Typeface Font Search By Models made more obvious on TWDB
A couple people have asked me recently if I could add the ability to display typefaces by particular typewriter model, and this confused me because I thought you already could. I built the TWDB to be a Database, IE: you can query it using simple variables to filter results, and these queries are written into […]
1968 – Smith-Corona SCM Typewriter Typestyles and Keyboards
1968 – Smith-Corona SCM Typewriter Typestyles and Keyboards
Double-Strike Typewriter Bolding Tests, Part 1
Weapon of Choice: 1972 Royal Mercury – Excellent double-striker! Weapon of Choice: 1970 Royal Sprite – Excellent double-striker! Weapon of Choice: 1978 Brother Charger 11 – Bad double-striker. Weapon of Choice: 1940 Royal Aristocrat – Decent double-striker. Weapon of Choice: 1961 Swissa Junior – Decent double-striker. Weapon of Choice: 1963 Olympia SM-7 – Bad double-striker. […]
Synergies flow: the Interrobang, Quomma and Queriod for typewriter lovers!
How to type an interrobang on a typewriter, and some reasons why we should. Much easy, so wild!
Weapon of Choice: 1956 Tower Commander Chad Comello’s Crusade for the Interrobang 99% Invisible on the Interrobang Various ways a computer can make an interrobang
O.O.P.R.A.P. and The Typewriter Repair Bibles are Back! :D
Get ’em while they’re here. I am reminded of Scripture, Psalm 33:10 “The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.” Roughly translated into the title of a Public Enemy album, it means “Man Plans and God Laughs.” In other words, Act Now – Possibly a Limited […]
Drago and a nice scan of an Underwood #5 Pica Paper Scale
Words are Winged: Tuning an Underwood 5
Nelson Hawks and the American Point System
From May 1985 Upper & Lower Case magazine, the trade magazine of the International Type Corporation