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Typewriter Spool

by Typodermic
Individual Styles from $69.95 USD
Complete family of 122 fonts: $169.95 USD
The Typewriter Spool Font Family was designed by Ray Larabie and published by Typodermic. Typewriter Spool contains 122 styles and family package options. More about this family

Typewriter Spool Complete Family

 122 fonts

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$1.39 USD

Pack of 122 styles:

$169.95 USD

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About the family

Designers rarely know what the next typewriter brief will demand. One client needs a pristine office memo; another wants a slightly uneven personal letter. Later it may be a narrow form, a battered report, a document several photocopy generations removed from the original, or an archival exhibit where newly typeset material has to sit convincingly beside scans.

Typewriter Spool was built for that uncertainty. Rather than offering one idealized typewriter texture, it explores a wide range of document conditions through one coordinated family. CLN provides the cleanest and most controlled setting; SFT introduces restrained mechanical irregularity; XRX moves into copied and transmitted material; RUF pushes further into worn ribbon texture, misalignment, and physical degradation.

That range makes Typewriter Spool useful for agencies, production studios, exhibition designers, editorial departments, and in-house creative teams whose typewriter needs change from project to project. A branding agency might use it for a founder’s letter in an anniversary campaign, then return to it for limited-edition packaging, an archival quotation, or a heritage exhibition.

Film, television, and documentary production can take the idea further. A single project may need correspondence, interview transcripts, evidence sheets, intelligence files, photocopied reports, labels, and enlarged document excerpts. Different treatments can suggest different stages in a document’s life while keeping the underlying typography related. A clean original and a degraded copy can look like versions of the same source rather than props assembled from unrelated typewriter fonts.

Museums, historical exhibitions, investigative publishing, and documentary editorial projects face similar problems when archival material has to coexist with newly designed information. Typewriter Spool can distinguish clean transcripts, reconstructed quotations, copied records, witness statements, correspondence, and worn source material without abandoning a consistent documentary vocabulary.

Its broad support for Latin-based languages, Greek, Cyrillic, and Vietnamese also helps internationally active studios keep the same system as campaigns and productions expand across markets.

Typewriter Spool is less a single typewriter look than a working library of typewritten conditions: clean, imperfect, copied, transmitted, worn, narrow, broad, emphasized, and multilingual. For designers who cannot predict what the next typewriter brief will look like, that range is the point.

Designers: Ray Larabie

Foundry: Typodermic

MyFonts debut: Jan 18, 2021

Typewriter Spool

About Typodermic

Welcome to Typodermic Fonts, a spirited type foundry rooted in Nagoya, Japan, started by the Canadian typeface designer, Raymond Larabie in 2001. Our library brims with 500+ diverse typefaces to fuel creativity in graphic design, advertising, web, and app development. As digital type pioneers, we adopted web fonts and app licensing early, consistently pushing the design envelope. With Canadian heart and Japanese precision, we're your global partners in extraordinary typography. Explore Typodermic Fonts—where creativity meets character.

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