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Typewriter typeface identification question
Does anyone recognize the typeface on this old radio script?
(the non-Italic typeface that looks something like Vogue, but isn't)
- Uwe
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Re: Typewriter typeface identification question
Well, it's sans-serif and looks like a form of Gothic; I'm sure I have a couple of machines that are fitted with something very similar. However, wha't really interesting is that the document also uses an italic serif type, which I assume was achieved by using two different typewriters to type it all out. What a pain that must have been.
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
- Valiant
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Re: Typewriter typeface identification question
That's a good observation Uwe! I wonder if that typescript might have been aided by an IBM Selectric? Two type balls easily interchanged or, perhaps, a single type ball with both roman and italic typefaces?
Ooops, just saw that the script is dated 1938, so the whole type-ball thing wouldn't apply..... 
Is there a possibility it was produced on a Varityper?
Last edited by Valiant (07-9-2015 20:32:19)
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