Showing posts with label fonts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fonts. Show all posts

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?)