(x) Looking for Olivetti lettera 35 Schreibmaschinen-schriften {James Langdon}
I’m looking to track down the typewriter font used by Derek Birdsell in his book ’notes on book design’.
He refers to it as ’Olivetti lettera 35 Schreibmaschinen-schriften’ within the text, but I can’t seem to find it, or anything similar.
I’ve attached some pics from the web, but they’re not great so apologies for that.
Any help will be much appreciated!
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5.Aug.2008 4.05am
Images are too small. You can take a look at lekton an olivetti typewriter inspired ‘open source’ font
5.Aug.2008 4.34am
I don’t know if this is what you’re looking for as I can’t see the type in the images, but from the name it might be:
http://www.myfonts.com/search?search%5Btext%5D=schreibmaschineregular
5.Aug.2008 5.45am
Thanks guys, it’s much appreciated.
The Lekton face is very interesting, certainly going to keep that in mind for future projects.
Schreibmaschine Regular is the exact font I was looking for, thanks James you’re a star.
T
5.Aug.2008 12.11pm
This is just great. Somebody posts pictures where you can’t make out a damn thing, then somebody else identifies the exact font by name.
Just a few things to consider:
Why do I bother at all? When it comes to typewriter faces, I just can’t help it ... now does anybody have a recognizable picture of the typeface in question ... you really got me interested ;)
Cheers
Jens
5.Aug.2008 12.41pm
Terry, excuse me for asking this but you really got me intrigued. How on earth did you expect anyone to identify this typeface from those pictures? I mean, there is no way you can make out even a single character.