Here is the IBM selectric font used for the bush memos

[NJmaverick]

[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. I don't think anyone knows what machine was used for the memos.

It is possibly one of 2 machines I believe.

[yardwork]

3. The post is about the font

The font - or typeface - refers to the design of the letters. IBM Selectric typewriters used little balls to create the images. The balls were available in many different font sizes and types.

[Walt Starr]

2. Wow, notice something about that typeface?

It ain't MS Word Times New Roman. But you wanna know something else about that Typeface? I could type it up in MS Word Times New Roman, overlay it electronically over what you've poroduced, and it would MATCH EXACTLY, or at least "appear" to anyway.

[allemand]

4. Look at the "4". It doesn't have a "closed top" (or poor quality

of the scan?).

[troublemaker]

5. Not true. This face has an open topped 4. The memos do not

For checking faces- be sure to check the threes and fours. These threes match, but not the fours

In the memos the fours are 1) closed top (pointed), and 2) san-serif (no foot on the 4s)

In the memos the threes are rounded top, not flat top