Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Key Jammin’, Circa 1950!

While helping my Mom clean out her basement in preparation for a move recently, I came across the apparent answer to the mystery of why some older fixed-width fonts confusingly feature “1” (numeral one) and “l” (lowercase letter L) glyphs that are identical:

royalTypewriter

(Hint: Look to the left of the “2” key!  Anything missing there?)

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