Small quirk: There was no “1” on the machine, so a lowercase L was used instead. Language support: Latin (please check font download page for the exact languages)Ĭreated by directly scanning the letters produced by a Samsonite typewriter.With one exception (Conspiracy font), all the fonts in this list are also available for download as pre-made webfont kits.Ī great distressed grunge typewriter font with rough edges and a natural feel. In this section we included fonts available from other sources than Google Fonts. Language support: Latin, Latin Extended.You’ll find clean typewriting fonts, vintage, grunge, distressed, smudgy, telex/fax type and even conspiracy-style censored 🙂Įnjoy! Free typewriter fonts from Google FontsĪ vintage style typewriter font that mimics the Smith Corona Special Elite Type Number NR6 and Remington Noiseless typewriter models.īased on multiple classic typewriter typefaces, in particular IBM’s Executive and the Smith-Premier. We gathered the best typewriter fonts and included them into this nifty useful collection. Though their legibility on screens is generally better at bigger sizes, and are ideal rather for headlines, logotypes and short texts than long body text, the results they produce are most of the time amazing. They bring that charming retro vibe to projects and let your imagination run wild to detective stories and super secret classified documents from the 60’s. In early 1960 I used it for, say, a dozen EWD's.Typewriter fonts are awesome. I then allowed myself the luxury of a portable typewriter, which I still have. He also mentions than an earlier Hermes Media typewriter with the Techno font that had a full set of brackets and braces: Possibly Hermes Elite since it's the only 12 pitch font in the sample with a "4" extending below the baseline. Presumably those were taken from another font as part of his customization. The type samples I've found for Hermes Techno Elite don't have the same numerals as his typewriter.
Asked whether I had any special wishes -in those days new professors were supposed to have special wishes- I shocked my future colleagues by asking an electric Hermes Ambassador with the Techno Elite type fount and special characters according to my specifications. In EWD1000 Dijkstra mentions the typewriter he apparently used for the bulk of his manuscripts until he started mostly handwriting them around 1979:īy the time I went to the Technological University of Eindhoven -Sept.
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