I didn’t think it was called kerning when it wasn’t a proportional-width font. (I’m not a fontologist, though.)
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'Terribly sorry, it appears you are perfectly correct, according to the wiki entry on kerning.
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WE ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE
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I’ve been low-key eyeballing IBM Selectrics as they pop up on an auction site I frequent. But the Shipping!
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“Help! I’m trapped in a typewriter factory!”
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I heard a rumor that law offices are constantly on the prowl for IBM Selectrics because of all the pre-printed legal forms that need to be filled in by actual typing.
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Sphinx of black quartz, JUDGE MY VOW!
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I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter…
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What’s spinning inside a modern electric typewriter? I’ve occasionally wondered that whenever I happen to hear one and I’ve never found an explanation online.
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Diesel engine.
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Wot, because they never heard of setting up a document template which enters text in exactly the right places to print onto said forms as they are fed to a printer?
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Hey, I said it was a rumor. But it’s a rumor I heard as a dealer in secondhand junk.
Having set up templates to fill in pre-printed forms being run through printers…F#@k it. It is a lot easier to just use a typewriter, rather than fiddle with the dumb template all afternoon.
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A little squirt of W-D 40 on the old manual typewriter ribbons resurrects them for a while. The manual ribbons were oily ink, and the W-D 40 re-dissolves the ink.
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Looked like they were typed by very, very early AI.
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Never underestimate the power of bureaucratic inertia…
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Cozy lummox gives smart squid who asks for job pen is another fave of mine, but a sphinx of black quartz is just so vivid and evocative for a pangram.
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It is a very appealing phrase.
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