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Selectric Century Font

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Selectric CenturyDesigners: Alexander Bobrov, Linn Boyd Benton, Morris Fuller Benton
Created by Alexander Bobrov, Linn Boyd Benton and Morris Fuller Benton, Selectric Century is a serif font published by Indian Summer season Studio.

Also known as Schoolbook. 900+ glyphs.

After Linn Boyd Benton's and Morris Fuller Benton's 1894 lower contrast version of Scotch Modern, Didone.

The part of the big project on revival and more development (by drawing many additional glyphs) of the 20th century's typewriters' fonts.

And specifically the most famous, flexible and lovely typewriter: IBM Selectric's golfball font styles, lost for the civilization for many decades after '80s, not being developed ever since in digital vector form.

This new sub-project started in July 2018 for the remediation of the most beautiful classical typefaces, utilized during the 20th century on the very uncommon now IBM Selectric Author typewriters/ desktop publishing systems.

Together with Nick Hamze and the Right Reverend Theodore Munk, the collectors of old typewriters.

IBM revealed the perfect taste by developing these best historical book typefaces of the human civilization for typewriters. So individuals might type then utilizing both the genuine book faces, and the popular classical ones.

Font Family: Bold

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