I have two manual typewriters, one is a Olympia SM3 Deluxe with tabs, paper shield and paper supporting paper bail portable in brown, and the other is a very rare full size Royal Olympia with telegraphers type face with all capitals and slashed zero.

My "DREAM" typewriter is a portable Olympia with Italic Large and Small capitals with a slashed zero. The owner of Vibroplex in New York had one - he ran a typewriter repair and telegraph supply store so he sold both - he used the Italic Large and Small caps manual typewriter for general correspondence as well as copying telegram messages. At one time retirees from Western Union and Press Wireless had a private wire running from Philadelphia, PA through New York to Hartford, Connecticut - with a few dozen subscribers who were WU and AT&T and PreWi retirees.

When standard manual MILL typewriters became rare, I ordered for my ships an IBM Selectric and an ORATOR typeball which was small and large caps, no lower case.

Some TTF fonts you can try on your computer.

My original MILL Font: https://qsl.net/n1ea/mill_02.ttf

Rubin CO2IR's improved MILL Font (the best one) it has support for accented letters. https://qsl.net/n1ea/Telegram_co2ir.ttf

Orator Regular and Orator Italic (from the IBM Selectric Ball typewriter)

Roman Pro Caps MILL font (Roman Letters with serifs, with slashed zero, large and small caps for correspondence or telegraphy!)

They're all on my web page: http://qsl.net/n1ea with direct links here and attached to this message

73

DR