On keeping a journal (or something to that effect)
Something else I wrote five days ago along the same vein, but didn’t publish: First and final drafts written on the Adler Tippa 1 manual typewriter
A project on the art, acts and technologies of writing, editing and publishing
Something else I wrote five days ago along the same vein, but didn’t publish: First and final drafts written on the Adler Tippa 1 manual typewriter
The way type sizes are measured on typewriters is a bit different from traditional/digital typography. In fixed-width typewriters, type sizes are measured in ‘characters per inch’ (cpi). The most common are Elite (12 cpi) and Pica (10 cpi). Elite is therefore a smaller type than Pica. Amongst my three typewriters that use different printing mechanisms, …