Fonts are another issue that fall out of the assumption that all authors will type their book manuscripts on typewriters. Or more specifically, font style is the focus of today’s post. Typewriters, typically, have or had only one font. It looked a whole lot like fixed pitch Courier, which was in fact designed to resemble…

I was going to call these posts “Collisions of Technology” but I have a hard time thinking of a typewriter as technology – even though, it must surely be. These posts are about publishing, about the past shaping the present, and about the long cold shadow cast by the typewriter. You might be skeptical, but…