Comment by tocs3
5 days ago
Got a type written letter yesterday from an old friend. It has a really different look than anything from modern printers (is there a font that mimics manual typewriter with maybe old ribbon type). My father would type my papers in high school on an old manual typewriter. I was amazed at how fast he was.
The site looks well done and I think the Manuals and Repairs section might come in handy.
A while ago I wanted to make a poster for something with an authentic "typewritten" look... unfortunately my 90's Nakajima is much too hifi, and looks more like a bad computer font than a typewriter. Shame, it's got that lovely clunk when you type on it.
There are loads of old typewriter fonts. Just try googling “typewriter font.”
Not the same really. A typewriter is analog. Every character is essentially unique because the ink it lays down depends on the ribbon condition in that place, how fast the arm movement placed the letter (you can get occasional overlapping letters if you type fast) and even how squarely the paper was aligned when inserting it. The margins are variable unless you are carefully aligning those too.
So a quickly typed letter on an old ribbon has a unique character that can’t be reproduced by a font.
GNUTypewriter is a realistic-looking one.