To: autumnraine
Post 1691
Someone posted that the data entries for the Obama document was Pica (common in typewriters of that era) and that Courier is the same font. Cursory search online didn’t find any examples of Pica type but did see sites where it could be downloaded as a TrueType font.
1,744 posted on
08/04/2009 9:13:05 AM PDT by
Peter Horry
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To: Peter Horry
The Kenyan document is NOT Pica font. It could be Courier font though, the numbers and letters are similiar. Courier was the standard and norm for Typewriters from 1955 forward.
This is Pica font and the #4 is open top.
1,827 posted on
08/04/2009 10:51:48 AM PDT by
autumnraine
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To: Peter Horry
Someone posted that the data entries for the Obama document was Pica (common in typewriters of that era) and that Courier is the same font. Cursory search online didn’t find any examples of Pica type but did see sites where it could be downloaded as a TrueType font. Pica is not a font... it's a unit of type measurement. A Pica is 1/72 of an inch.
On typewriters Pica is a type face SIZE that puts 10 fixed width Characters per inch on the paper. A Pica typewriter can have models that have different typefaces but each of them would be 10 characters per inch. Pica is larger than Elite which is 12 Characters per inch.
2,078 posted on
08/04/2009 10:55:27 PM PDT by
Swordmaker
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