[Thanatos]

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

[Chad Fairbanks]

I sure don't see either TR or TNR on that list...

[Thanatos]

oops.. the top graphic is for Type I and Type II Selectrics, the bottom graphic is for Type III Selectrics

[lavrenti]

Notice the letterspacing. It is not at all like the memos.

Anyone dig up the fonts for the Executive?

[Thanatos]

More Font Type Elements for the IBM Selectric type II

[Petronski]

The DUmmies have been posting that all day: "Look! It's a list of Selectric balls, and some of them have a black dot, meaning 'proportional spacing.'"

They overlook the asterisk: 'For use on typewriters and printers with proportional spacing.' IAW, NOT the Selectric.

[kylaka]

Though IBM may have had proportional spacing on its later model selectrics, it is rather crude when compared to what is achievable with kerning value tables that were implemented on the earliest electronic typesetters and todays desktop publishing programs. To optimally space every possible letter combination of every concievable font requires a lot of computing horsepower. It really only became possible on any kind of scale in the early 1990's.