Typographical Typewriter Fun

[@jhondoe3213]

I think Typewriter art is awesome! Also i figured out how to mimic half spacing on my Royal kh with back space having such a long stroke may also work with the 10 and kmm as well

[@_landro_1092]

Inspiring. You just showed me one more use of my versatile Erika 20 with automatical double spacing _and_ half spacing. Great vid!!

[@AtelierDBurgoyne]

Loved it! Fun to see what you were creating, the wave is very good looking. I started adding some kind of "twiggle" in my letters to indicate a significant change in the subject matter I am typing about. There are many variations, but the typewriter allows us to type one or more caracters on top of each other, therefore creating a new symbol, such as typing + and * creates a tiny flower. Daniel

[@Joe_VanCleave]

I’m going to start using “twiggle” in my vocabulary!

[@mrspeverett]

Very excited to use these ideas for Christmas presents! Thank you for another fantastic video

[@christophermckellar1352]

Thanks. Creative and as you say, fun.

[@leonardpearlman4017]

One hears so much about this "Fun"! I don't think it ordinarily involves typewriters. It's well if it DOES, since I have lots of typewriters and a quiet life otherwise.

[@ScottManess]

Thank you so much for your great videos and writing! Thankfully the bucket of inspiration put out continues to be full each morning! The important thing is that we put it out always. As always you are appreciated!

[@ctbdjc]

i'm going to try this with my typewriter

[@brettmanuel3440]

Love my Olivetti’s - I have 3 portables - a manual, electric and electronic. You’re very creative with your video ideas - good going Joe!

[@saulysw]

Month-Day-Year date format only makes sense to Americans! Anyway, essentially much of this is "ASCII art", which has a rich history. The line/character spacing tricks and the two colours on the typewriter make it slightly different compared to a computer font. Before high resolution graphics were a thing, this is what a lot of people did play with.

[@michaelcase8574]

I've seen videos of artists who have made some amazing portraits and landscapes using typwriters only. Very impressive! My Brother Daisy wheel can give you the shadow effect with the double bold letter mode.

[@AlencarFaulkner]

For the Romance language world or the British who prefer using a dash for dialogue marks, a half-line machine helps. You can half-space up and type an underscore before the dialogue. It looks neat. Although the size is incorrect, it's closer to an en-dash than an em-dash, which would be the proper dialogue mark.

[@savastefan]

I do the same thing with the date on a Canon Typestar 10-II. It's easier with the "Align Right" feature.

[@laurencefinston7036]

I'm old enough so that I learned to type on a manual typewriter and typed all of my papers for college as an undergraduate until my senior year on an electric one. Toward the end of that year, I started using the word processing system on the school's mainframe (!). For the past approx. 30 years, I've been using Donald Knuth's TeX system for typographical purposes. I liked the trick with the half-spacing to fit a four-letter word (not that kind!) into the space of a three-letter one and couldn't resist trying to duplicate it with TeX (not LaTeX). This is one solution: \tt \setbox0=\hbox{test} \setbox1=\hbox{tst} \setbox2=\hbox to \wd1{\hss t\hss e\hss s\hss t\hss} \parindent=0pt \hbox{\copy0\ \copy1\ \copy0} \hbox{\copy0\ \copy2\ \copy0} \bye In German, words are sometimes "spaced out" for emphasis instead of using italics or bold-faced, especially in older texts. This is called "Sperrung" and can be implemented in a similar way (using "horizontal glue" in TeX parlance).

[@laurencefinston7036]

I looked at my results again and they weren't entirely satisfactory. The problem is trickier than I thought. This is a better solution: \tt \dimen0=.6667pt \setbox0=\hbox{t\hskip\dimen0 e\hskip\dimen0 s\hskip\dimen0 t} \setbox1=\hbox{t\hskip\dimen0 s\hskip\dimen0 t} \parindent=0pt \hbox{\copy0~\copy1~\copy0} \hbox{\copy0~\hbox to 0pt{\hskip3pt e\hss}\copy1~\copy0} \bye In TeX, as with a typewriter, the spacing between letters in a word is fixed (per font in TeX). In order to get this to work, I had to "disable" this feature. If the spacing is too small, there won't be enough space for an extra letter, but if it's too large, correctly typed words will look bad. In the previous example, the parameter \dimen0 determines this spacing (here, 2/3 of a point, whereby 72.27pt = 1in. That is, it's not a PostScript point at 72pt = 1in.

[@someonespadre]

I could’ve gotten that machine for $20 but I was out of town so somebody else got it. The Studio 44.

[@michaelh.gerloff3659]

Thanks for the inspiring video. I like using special characters like the +, /, * or #.

[@agricolturadimontagna2.0]

Is it an elite typeface? I have the very same typeface on my Lettera 32.

[@Joe_VanCleave]

It’s a 10CPI typeface.

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

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[@dadtype2339]

Hi Joe, Very cool ideas, hadn't thought of these. I'll certainly be thinking about them next time I do a title. Not exactly the same thing, but have you seen those people who draw cityscapes with their Typewriter? It looks great and nuts how that's done at the same time. Apologies the Temporal Letter is taking longer than expected, I've had somethings come up, which I'll be a bit more open on our private messaging. New phone I'm to remind you to check that as you asked. Question? Do you think that part of or some of the love we have working on Typewriters involves a bit of OCD fidget with a touch of the button pushing crunch sound like the enjoyment one gets from popping bubble wrap for instance, do you think there is some enjoyment we get mashing, crunching buttons, that snap, or muted report, hard, or soft, key cushion just is answered when working on a Typewriter, even calls you to the keyboard...my goodness, cane working on a Typewriter be addictive??? Lol, I certainly hope so. My best to you and the Mrs. as always. This was fun Joe.