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nephihahayesterday at 7:44 PM1 replyview on HN

We had an electric Olivetti typewriter at home when I was growing up before we got a word processor/pc


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TacticalCoderyesterday at 10:01 PM

About 10 years ago I found old mail/letters belonging to my great aunt. One of these lettres did really stand out: just mundane stuff, some insurance invoice, but the font on that letter was a thing of beauty. It took me quite some time but I ended up finding which font was used in that (typerwrited) letter and it was some Olivetti font.

I've got a scan of that letter and reference somewhere and although I don't remember the ref right now, I know I eventually found which font it was here:

https://luc.devroye.org/fonts-96540.html

P.S: I've got great memories of my father smoking cigs while typing on his IBM selectric eletric typewriter.

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