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To: Republican Red
I think this is the final proof we need: Unless I'm reading this wrong, TNR wasn't even used on the fancy IBM Typewriters until the early 80s...

Courier was originally designed in 1956 by Howard Kettler for the revolutionary “golfball” typing head technology IBM was then developing for its electric typewriters. (The first typewriter to use the technology was the IBM Selectric Typewriter that debuted in 1961.) Adrian Frutiger had nothing to do with the design, though IBM hired him in the late 1960s to design a version of his Univers typeface for the Selectric. In the 1960s and 1970s Courier became a mainstay in offices. Consequently, when Apple introduced its first Macintosh computer in 1984 it anachronistically included Courier among its core fonts. In the early 1990s Microsoft, locked in a font format battle with Adobe, hired Monotype Typography to design a series of core fonts for Windows 3.1, many of which were intended to mirror those in the Apple core font group. Thus, New Courier—lighter and crisper than Courier—was born. (In alphabetized screen menus font names are often rearranged for easier access so now we have Courier New MT in which the MT stands for Monotype Typography.)

Courier’s vanquisher was Times New Roman, designed in 1931 by Stanley Morison, Typographical Advisor to the Monotype Corporation, with the assistance of draughtsman Victor Lardent. The Times of London first used it the following year. Linotype and Intertype quickly licensed the design, changing its name for their marketing purposes to Times Roman. Times Roman became an original core font for Apple in the 1980s and Times New Roman MT became one for Windows in the 1990s. (Ironically, at the same time IBM invited Frutiger to adapt Univers for the Selectric Typewriter, they asked Morison to do the same with Times New Roman.) Whether superior to Courier or not, neither of these digital renditions of Morison’s original design is the best one available today—in the opinion of information design specialist Erik Spiekermann that honor goes to a version called Times Ten.

56 posted on 09/10/2004 5:51:53 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Kerry's Campaign fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Has anyone tried processing the document using the Adobe version of Times Roman? That's the Linotype version.


57 posted on 09/10/2004 5:55:01 PM PDT by lavrenti (Think of who is pithy, yet so attractive to women.)
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Font Type Balls for Selectric Type I and Type II Typewriters:

88 character
10 Pitch Prestige Pica

12 Pitch Courier

12 Pitch Letter Gothic



96 character
12 Pitch Letter Gothic

10 Pitch Prestige Pica

More from the Selectric manuals:

Type I


Type II

67 posted on 09/10/2004 6:03:25 PM PDT by Thanatos
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Dude, you are amazing!!!


87 posted on 09/10/2004 6:20:46 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Morologus es!)
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