alt Hacker NewsAbout 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.
I'm actually beginning to wonder if I might have learnt to type on an Olivetti as well. That typewriter's been gone over forty years but it may well have been. We did have computers at school (and were barely allowed access), but I taught myself on a typewriter anyway... I had to... My handwriting's awful!