Royal Executive: typeface and font

If you ever see a typewriter with a key like this, you've got something special.

Here's an ad posted by Peter S. on Facebook. The exact phrase is "overcomes objections to the more usual faces."

Download the font here.

Oliver No. 11 typewriter

Manufactured ca. 1923 (The Typewriter Database).







Paper table decal:



Decal above keyboard:



Click for a high-resolution version of the flying hands decal:


Feel free to use this image for a rubber stamp, stationery, or even a temporary tattoo. I did!



The No. 11 was touted as a fast and quiet machine, as in this Popular Mechanics ad from May 1923. These claims are ... well ... imaginative.

Calling all Philadelphia typewriter lovers

Bryan's business:
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Some stories about Bryan and his passion:
"Typewriter Man" now in Mt. Airy
A mechanic for those writing machines that go click, clack, ding!
Helping shift focus to writing in the key of yesteryear
"Owl Post Office"
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