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Selectrics also had what is easily my favorite font, Artisan 12, which is kind of like a perfectly rounded (in the case of 'o') Letter Gothic variant to my rath
by dwringer 3y ago
Selectrics also had what is easily my favorite font, Artisan 12, which is kind of like a perfectly rounded (in the case of 'o') Letter Gothic variant to my rather untrained eye. It's so emblematic of an entire era in computing and I use a crude personal version of it regularly to make my terminals feel more retro.
Low res example of the classic: http://luc.devroye.org/IBM-Selectric-artisan12.gif http://luc.devroye.org/IBM-Selectric-artisan12.gif
- TacticalCoder 3y agoVery nice font and I know that site: years ago, I stumbled upon an old letter (sent by some insurance broker IIRC) to my old aunt. Maybe sent in the 70s or 80s and the letter was just beautiful. So I set up on a quest to find which font this was and ended up finding it was some Olivetti font and it's on that site you linked that I eventually found it! I have that letter and that font name "somewhere" but cannot access it atm : (