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There are surprisingly few fonts based on, or used by, actual typewriters. In the interests of finding out the right answers by posting wrong ones:
Prestige Elite, Typewriter Elite (balls and fillets), Courier (no balls, slab serifs), LTC Remington Typewriter (wavy seven).
A2 Typewriter, 1403 Vintage Mono, and Orator feature in the next post.
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InDesign question:
When I type in a text box (in normal speed), random letters get duplicated.
I neeed to carefullly read everything twiice to makee sure the text isnn’t messed upp like tthis.
This only happens in the current and the last versions of InDesign on Windows 11, no other program.
I used to do a lot of writing in InDesign. That’s impossible now. Instead, copy & paste from a text editor it is.
Would love to get back to my old routine. How do I fix this?
title text: We're building on our earlier success getting web developers to pay to change the backslashes in our displayed payment URL to forward slashes.
(https://xkcd.com/3113)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3113)
Take Back Mokum, a collection of essays, interviews, illustrations and more, around the theme of squatting and housing in Amsterdam.
The first (and I hope not the last!) book set in my typeface, MD Lórien.
Designed by @janegbers (https://janegbers.info), who has my eternal gratitude for using oldstyle, lining *and* small cap figures in a single project.
Via @FontsInUse: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/67027/take-back-mokum
Typeface: https://mass-driver.com/typefaces/md-lorien/
So @nina_kali_nina thread on typewriters is excellent https://typo.social/@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt/114818967335108149 and reminds me of a feature that i suspect is common but not known about. The spacebar makes a double clunk, and this is a clue: holding down the space bar AND THEN TYPING a letter does two things: letter is positioned ½ space ahead; and, carriage does not move (so can in principle be used for overlay effects more easily than backspacing).
Illustrated here, with some explanation in the next post.
A look at the typefaces released mid-May to mid-June in today’s #AtlasOfType monthly news post, for your weekend reading pleasure.
Doing research for an article I had to compile this list, and friends, it sent shivers down my spine.
Linotype, 2006; China Type, 2006; Ascender Corp., 2010; Bistream, 2012; FontShop / FontFont Library, 2014; URW, 2020; FontSmith, 2020; Hoefler & Co., 2021; Berthold, 2022; Milieu Grotesque, 2023; Fontworks, 2023; 39 typeface families by David Berlow from the FontBureau Library, 2023; Colophon Foundry, 2023; SharpType library, 2024; DSType library, 2024.
Crass seeing em all together like this.
David JONES
Jens Kutílek
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Rutherford Craze
Dan Burzo
Kai Bernau
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