To Type, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth...

Here’s another line chart that I’ve found to be more useful than the info on TW-DB for certain models of Smith-Corona machines. For Corona models 1-4 I generally refer to this chart, but for later models up to 1960, this NOMDA chart is very handy:

Cameron down at Living in the Woods asked today for some date of manufacture info about his Underwood Universal, and mentioned that he couldn’t find any info in the usual sources. I looked it up in my homemade line book, composed of printouts from scans I’ve made of various paper sources, and found a good […]

Ok, so I don’t know that Zooey Deschanel collects typewriters, but after showing up at the Writer’s Guild Awards sporting typewriter-themed fingernails,the typewriter geek community can be excused for seeking out evidence of another big star being a member of our weird little cult. Well, how’s this for further evidence? In Zooey’s current show “New […]

For part 2 of this series on “Perfect Albums”, I’ll be focusing on the work of one artist: Israeli DJ and video artist Ophir Kutiel, AKA Kutiman. Like any other DJ, Kutiman mixes sound samples to make music. What makes Kutiman different is where he gets his samples and what he does with them. Kutiman […]

One Stormy Night – DJ Munk

I admit I did very little specifically typewriter-ish to celebrate ITAM, but I did get 2 new typewriters this month, and fixed one of ’em up. I also typed, if not every day, then a sizeable minority of them. Every day is ITAD to me. (:

Don, from NathanGuitars.com, recently left some comments here. As I normally do, I clicked the link he left attached to his name, discovering yet another typecast blog I hadn’t seen before. Reading his post here caused me to think about the parallels in his introduction to typewriter hoarding and my own. I have the idea […]

And now for something else completely random:

and now, some typewriter-related posting. First an Experiment In Terror: and then, an amusing thing I got in the mail. This insurance company used an Elite typewriter font to address this letter that showed up in my mailbox. I’m curious if they thought that it adds a personal touch to try and fool me into […]

So, if “Pica” is a size, or more specifically any 10 CPI font face on a typewriter, then what is the typestyle that most of us know as “Pica”? Is it Courier, or does it have a name at all, or is it just designated as numbers by different factories?