Signing in San Francisco & Failure interview

Q&A in Failure Magazine

“Typewriters and the art of self-sufficiency”

“It's possible to spend a fair length of time doing something intuitively, just because you can sense somehow that that thing is good and right and beneficial for you; then there is an added pleasure that can be gotten after someone else comes along and articulates — using clear language and beautifully reasoned arguments — what you had so far only felt on instinct.

This unexpected but entirely welcome articulation is what typewriter expert and philosophy professor Richard Polt's new book, "The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century," came along this fall and did for me and my roughly four-years-and-counting intuitive love of writing on typewriters.”

This lovely essay / book review by Kathleen Rooney of Poems While You Wait appears in today's Chicago Tribune.

PDF version here.

VisOmatic Electrite font

I hadn't made a typewriter font for a while, so with an hour to spare last night, I did.

I don't think I've seen this typeface on another typewriter. Isn't that ampersand a beauty?

Download the font here.

Also available: VisOmatic, with more regular alignment.

You can make your own font, for free, at paintfont.com.

Here's a closeup of the type.