Tag: typewriter

1. Schmutz

   Designer: Grant Hutchinson ; Foundry: Image Club

   

   Grant dedicated the Schmutz family to his mother’s old Remington typewriter. Taking scans of documents produced with the old manual…

2. Babbage

   Designer: Corey Holms ; Foundry: Umbrella

   The idea behind this typeface was to create a more humanistic typewriter font. I have found that my obsession with…

3. Courier

   Designer: Howard Kettler ; Foundry: IBM, Adobe Systems, Bitstream, Monotype, URW++

   Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface. The typeface was designed by Howard “Bud” Kettler in 1955. The design of…

4. Letter Gothic

   Designer: Roger Robertson ; Foundry: Monotype, Bitstream, Adobe Systems, URW++

   The Letter Gothic font family was designed for IBM between 1956 and 1962 for use on the Selectric typewriter. Letter…

5. Chennai Slab

   Designer: Jeremy Dooley ; Foundry: Insigne

   

   Chennai Slab is an extension of the original Chennai. Chennai Slab is a simplified slab serif with over sixty OpenType…

6. Prestige Elite

   Designer: Howard Kettler, Clayton Smith ; Foundry: Adobe Systems, Bitstream, IBM

   

7. FF Trixie

   Designer: Erik van Blokland ; Foundry: FontFont

   

   FF Trixie, the original Instant Type, was taken directly from a typewriter that belonged to a woman whose name was…