[GreenKeys] Weather Symbol Question

Richard Knoppow 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
Wed Apr 15 20:08:23 EDT 2015


       This looks pretty authentic to me but I have not seen any actual 
Teletype copy for some time.  I thought the M15 typeface was pretty much 
the same, can anyone confirm or deny that please.
       My new computer has a smoothing option for laptop and for 
desktop.  I have not tried it.  I think most Windows programs from XP at 
least on have a smoothing option somewhere.  I don't know if this 
accounts for the differences you observe.  The font I posted looks clean 
when printed out but is a "bold" font as I remember was true of the real 
thing. For some reason I have always been fond of the slightly art-deco 
Teletype typeface. BTW, what is the "pitch" of normal TT machines.  I 
assume about 10 pitch, which is the common large typewriter pitch.  It 
might be larger.

On 4/15/2015 4:39 PM, tony.podrasky wrote:
> GA OMs;
>
> Yes - I loaded that font years ago.
>
> When I first played with it I thought the guy who
> made the font was an idiot - because it looked
> all fuzzy and some letters were slightly higher than
> other and some were a bit caked-up. Then one day it
> hit me: the guy made the font look like the model 15
> fonts! It was BRILLIANT!
>
> Funny thing is, my old laptops display it perfectly.
> My new desktop tower smooths the font to make it cleaner.
> How it knows how to do that is beyond me.
>
> UE,
> K2EAA - TONY
> NNNN
> ZCZC
>
>
> On 04/15/2015 02:14 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>>       FWIW, in the course of searching this I found a site with the
>> Teletype font for computers.
>> http://www.dafont.com/teletype-1945-1985.font
>>
>>       It does look like the older typeface also.
>>
>
>

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Richard Knoppow
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