OK you FONT & TYPE people, please look at the OD in ODUYA near the bottom they are siamesed together, but OB in OBAMA is not, any explanation? I’m rusty on my Buckhead lessons.
thanks
Sure. Typewriters, particularly manual typewriters, do not have precisely uniform spacing between letters. If you typed quickly, you could outrun the motion of the carriage, and two letters would be printed close together.
rolling stone wrote: “OK you FONT & TYPE people, please look at the OD in ODUYA near the bottom they are siamesed together...”
Remember on those old typewriters when you thought you were done and loosened the paper from the roller? And then, DOH!, you forgot something! So you had to “eyeball” the paper back into place on the roller...
Well, perhaps that is why the “OD” is “Siamesed” together...or that is why it is made to look that way.
Polarik: Please note this post, I know you are the graphics guy, but please tell me if you think this is correct what I think on this.
It’s not a font/type issue, it’s a roller issue.
As someone who used a typewriter for 20 years, sometimes your roller skips and you have to go back and adjust the paper to be somewhat close to where you had it.
So if you stopped typing to type another document fast, or the roller skipped and you had to manually adjust the paper in the roller, two letters might be close together.
Actually, I’m glad you mentioned this. THIS makes me think this is REAL!! A computer wouldn’t jumble those letters close together, but a TYPEWRITER WOULD and even if someone used a typewriter to forge it, they would have to think real hard to make a common typewriter mistake.
ALSO!!!!!!!!
As I look at this, I am even MORE convinced it is the real deal. This doesn’t look like a faded typewriter!! This is a carbon sheet which was common in government forms even up to a decade ago. Before photocopiers were common place, it was easier to use carbon forms (in triplicate).
The GREY type isn’t a typewriter as it would be black for typewriter ink. But CARBON types as GREY!!!
It's nothing. Taking the page out of the typewriter for some reason (like correcting "student" or maybe the boss wanted something else typed immediately or who knows) and reinserting it will cause this to happen. Remember, everything was done by hand.