Typewritten text situation

[Coosbaylumber]

Got three questions regarding older typewritten text.....


What is the current font in SHP or Tru-type fashion?

What is normal height for capitol or lower case letters?

What is normal leading or spacing between lines of text?


Wm.

[ReMark]

The font is called Courier. It is commonly produced in 12 pt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_%28typeface%29

There are 12 points to a pica.

(1 point = 1⁄72 inches = 25.4⁄72 mm = 0.3527 mm)

Courier has mostly been replaced by Courier New even in AutoCAD. It is a TrueType font.

A capitol is 3/32nds in height.

Line spacing is 7/64ths of an inch.

A lower case 's' is about 1/16th of an inch.

[Coosbaylumber]

Although I am converting this, the sexytary says a flat no as to it being courier, as that was popular in the 1970's but this is even earlier and dates from around 1950 I think. Back when we had manual, and not IBM selectric typewritters.

I was using a Romans typeface set at .060 high, but that looks screwy now, leading wrong, and overall length wrong.


Wm.

[Dana W]

If you have it on paper, you can scan it or have it scanned to MS Word and convert it to any font you like.

[SLW210]

Although I am converting this, the sexytary says a flat no as to it being courier, as that was popular in the 1970's but this is even earlier and dates from around 1950 I think. Back when we had manual, and not IBM selectric typewritters.

I was using a Romans typeface set at .060 high, but that looks screwy now, leading wrong, and overall length wrong.


Wm.

See if this helps Old Typewriter Fonts

[BIGAL]

Some people liked the hand drawn look for text so theres a font called handrawn. The final text look is really up to what you want or wether you are meeting a drafting standard a couple of good ones crayon, kinder, barbwire.

[Jack_O'neill]

There is a true type font in Word called Century:
century.JPG

[ReMark]

It really begs the question...why are you going through all this in the first place? It is, after all, the year 2011. Do you really need to reproduce a typeface from the 1950's? Is the reccipient even going to care/notice?

[ReMark]

The Courier font was developed in the 1950's not in the 70's for use in the IBM typewriter. Maybe you want to look at what was used for the old Royal or Olivetti-Underwood typewriters.

Century Roman dates back to 1894. Maybe your secretary's typewriter does too. How old she anyway? Well over a hundred? LOL

[Coosbaylumber]

The Courier font was not mentioned as being developed in the 1970's only that it was available. Read through earlier posting.

The old stuff does resemble that of Century Schoolbook. I got a poop sheet from the adult school that was once attended showing this font. I also got a TT to Acad font converter.


Wm.