Typo American
Typo American

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: January 17th, 2007
Designed by: Mark Stanczyk
Designed when: 2003
Contained in Category: Monospaced
Design owned by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: monospace [suggest]

Linotype Typo American

Mark Stanczyk designed Linotype Typo American in 1999. The font is an excellent revival of American style typewriter type.

As most of us can remember from our childhood years, or through old stories and movies, everyone used to type with typewriters before the invention of computers. Unlike computers, most individual typewriters only had one typestyle, or font, to chose from. To make matters worse, the letters in a typewriter font would wear down with use. Over time, text typed out on a typewriter would look more and more corroded, old, and uneven. Stanczyk has captured exactly these features in this “revival” font!

Also like most older typewriter styles, Linotype Typo American’s letters are all mono-spaced, i.e., the letter i is the same width as the letter w. Typewriter letters also all tended to be cast in the same size, around 12 points or so. When using typewriter-style fonts, it is best to keep setting your text in similar sizes. (Of course, you can set really large and fun headlines with Linotype Typo American, too; if anything the unevenness of the design will come even more across in these applications.)

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Related Links

 • Linotype: Linotype Typo American (English)

‘Linotype Typo American’ is a trademark of Linotype GmbH which may be registered in certain jurisdictions

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