The swiss typewriter are famous for their unique precision. As complex digitalizations and macro shots were a start for the inspiration and studies, each character has been carefully re-crafted from the ultra high def scans of the printouts made on a special bleed-proof paper. Today’s characters such as @, euro sign, and all missing ones were built according the overall design and concept of the original metal typebars. More…

The idea was to digitize and keep a saving of the original typewriter including all its functions (e.g. underlining key) . It’s surprisingly very legible at small sizes as the original font (called ‘pica’). Thanks to an x-height tighter and more spaced, a glyph design less detailed and more neutral/simple than other fonts found on american or italian typewriters. The height and width of the metal type slugs on the typewriter were precisely calculated and reproduced in the digital face. The final artwork can be set at very big sizes due to the highly detailed glyphs.

The font consists of three cuts:

– one kind of ‘pro’ version which includes a ‘calt’ feature to avoid the repetition of letters in a word (more than 150 glyphs have been created with the typewriter to avoid this)

– and two stylistic sets : one with an original underlining feature, and another with a slashed feature (Slashed-x). In which all characters are unique and also made from the original prints.

It contains more 600 glyphs in total. The two features are separated in another two fonts in case a non OT-savvy app is used.

If you wish to obtain exactly the same prints as the original Swissa Piccola typewriter, you should set your font at 11.3 pt and 19.5 pt of line spacing.

The Swissa Piccola font was originally offered in a dedicated limited edition packaging.