Comment by iterateoften

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.