Transcribed below. The pen is an Esterbrook No. 048 Falcon with Walnut Drawing Ink.
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Courier: The Type That Says, “Don’t Look at Me”
The typewriter is a Smith Corona SL 500 with the Regency 10 printwheel that came with the machine. The printwheel was advertised in Smith Corona literature as “Regency 10/Courier 10.” The typewriter was set for automatic carriage return, which accounts for the very ragged right margin.
It appears from looking at sites here and there that many people think “Courier” means “monospaced typewriter type.” Courier is a particular typeface designed for IBM in the 1950s; the generic term for monospaced typewriter type in America is “Pica” or “Elite,” depending on the pitch. It is a tribute to Courier’s success that it nearly took over that generic meaning.
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How Many Spaces After a Period?
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Keyboarding: The Archaic Skill That’s So Twentieth Century
The typewriter is the Woodstock. Readers may be interested in this clip in which Groucho and Zeppo Marx demonstrate the unreliability of dictation to a human secretary.
The graphic comes from a booklet published by IBM in 1943. You can have it adapted as an SVG file if you like.
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Should Children Learn Cursive? We’re Asking the Wrong Question
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What Is This Place?
There is a certain amusing dissonance about a site on the Web whose theme is writing by making marks on paper. But that is not the only dissonance you will find here. This is a supplement to Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine, and we’ll have long digressions on random subjects, instructional articles about writing instruments, and even poetry—but everything will be written out on paper, and only then published to the electronic world at large.