Jesse England has done such a thing with his "Sincerity Machine" and though it may not score high for durability, it more than earns points for creativity. Type-modders, take note: DIY Fraktur may be within your grasp.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
A Sincere Improvement?
How about hacking a typewriter to use that much-maligned and little-loved typeface, Comic Sans?
Jesse England has done such a thing with his "Sincerity Machine" and though it may not score high for durability, it more than earns points for creativity. Type-modders, take note: DIY Fraktur may be within your grasp.
Jesse England has done such a thing with his "Sincerity Machine" and though it may not score high for durability, it more than earns points for creativity. Type-modders, take note: DIY Fraktur may be within your grasp.
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Interesting project. It should be noted that Royal offered a "Cartoon" typeface as an option on machines throughout the 1950's:
http://munk.org/typecast/2011/04/24/1964-nomda-blue-book-royal-font-styles/
Okay... this posted, here, on the 15th of October. Today, the 20th, I receive a "latest news" kind of update from Popular Mechanics, all about it.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/how-to/blog/comic-sans-typewriter-17324088?src=nl&mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&date=102014
We are so hip, around here. :)
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