Ruth's Typewriter
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When my mother was young (and specially after my birth) she supplemented the family's income from home by typing for students and businesses. When I was a student I used the same machine for my assignments, lesson plans and thesis. The years were not kind to the machine, the mechanics rusted or broke, the letters worn with frayed edges or disintegrating serifs and fine lines. Ruth's typewriter is a declaration of my appreciation of many years of service the brave little machine gave... As you can see I clearly didn't get the letters repaired ;) The font looks like I rearranged and glued down what was left of the raised surfaces, to continue using the typewriter and give my words a very modern look ;)) A "grunge-writer" ?? Did you notice that no typewriters were ever sold with this kind of modern destructured typefaces?! ;)
Since I started this font many years ago (Ruth was very amused and appreciated this hommage) this work has now become a memorial to her
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Info:Created on 5th November 2013. Last edited on 25th July 2022.
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License:All Rights Reserved. No download available.
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13 Comments
A unique font with a beautiful story
Thank you, time-peace. And: it was a beautiful little machine, not chunky, very feminin - but maybe I thought that because the make was "Erika"
nice!
Uppercase I looks broken to me
@mgUdit yes that's the point. it's supposed to be broken
@mgUdit: you're almost right. May I test a selection of your UC "i" suggestions that match better the feeling of the rest of my font? My UC "i" is not just broken but positively disintegrating :´(
I think something like this might work well (it's just parts of J).
@mgUdit : thank you for the suggestion. I've followed it -- but I split the glyph to follow the idea of distortion-breaks.
Congratulations Aeo, the new I looks much better to me (the first one was too fragmented and interrupted the flow of the rest of the font, IMHO).
Thank you elmo, mgUdit was right. I was too destructive on the "i"
why does x look like a frown
for no reason it looks similar to the mcdonalds font
This looks like coins
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