1 - Pete E.
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Font Name ? Facit 1620
Would anyone know what Facit called this font style ?
It's on a nice Facit 1620 that I have in-coming.
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Re: Font Name ? Facit 1620
Looks like Pica cubic. Nice, simplified font.
Learned watchmaker and office machine enthusiast from Germany.
- Pete E.
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Re: Font Name ? Facit 1620
Thank you. It is very similar to the font on my 1964 Hermes 3000.
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Re: Font Name ? Facit 1620
Facit predominantly used typefaces from two foundries, so it didn't have its own unique typeface. The company used typefaces supplied by the Swiss manufacturer Caracteres, which also supplied Hermes, Patria, Swissa, Halda (and later Facit), and the German manufacturer Ransmayer & Rodrian, which supplied too many brands to list here.
When the machine arrives and you can look at a type slug, my guess is that it will be stamped CSA 14A (Caracteres).
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
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Re: Font Name ? Facit 1620
Thanks Uwe...will report back when the machine lands here at our home.
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Thread Starter- Pete E.
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Re: Font Name ? Facit 1620
Hi Uwe,
Yes...type-slugs are marked "CSA" and "11A" (which I assume is a font/style order number). Very nice cubic font.
It will be on my cleaning bench, tomorrow morning.
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Thread Starter- Pete E.
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Re: Font Name ? Facit 1620
Ready to join the clan.
SN places it as a 1969-made machine...
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Thread Starter- overwood
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Re: Font Name ? Facit 1620
That's pretty. Now I want one. Kinda stretches my idea of "portable" though...
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Re: Font Name ? Facit 1620
Hi Overwood,
The Facit 1620 is about the same width of my Olympia SM9 and about 1" less deep than the SM9.
The 1620 weighs 13.4 lbs. without its case, while my SM9 weighs 15.8 lbs. without its case.
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Thread Starter- overwood
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Re: Font Name ? Facit 1620
Yeah but the Olympia has a 1 key. Those are heavy. 
