#T mobile font century schoolbook manual#

These souped-up electric typewriters used golf ball-sized font elements to produce camera-ready, justified copy using proportional fonts in a variety of styles from 8 points to 14 points. Stories were then edited by hand and sent to the typesetting department, which re-typed them using IBM Selectric Composers.

#T mobile font century schoolbook manual#

In my first job as a reporter in the late 1970s, I was assigned a solid Facit manual typewriter the keys of which needed to be pounded with some force. Unfamiliar names like Baskerville, Century Schoolbook, Garamond, Helvetica, and Optima fired up my imagination, and made me realize that the fonts you chose could affect the personality of the printed page. Working on the school newspaper, I learned about letterpress and offset printing and eagerly perused the printerвЂ™s typeface catalogue to see what choices were available. Growing up before the age of personal computers, I discovered the wonders of the typewriter and learned to distinguish between pica (10 characters per inch) and elite (12 characters per inch) type. With only a slim guidebook to inform my efforts, however, my output was pretty awful, and I soon realized that if I were to create something presentable on a page, I would need some mechanical help.

I vaguely recall attaching the nibs to a pen holder and dipping them in ink to explore how beautiful letters could be formed. IвЂ™VE been fascinated by letters ever since I received a set of calligraphy nibs as a gift when I was in grade school.