by Richard Polt | Aug 25, 2026 | Book review
Author Ross Dunbar kindly sent me a copy of Click Clack Boom, the first in his Blackjack Harrigan Files series. Harrigan is an intelligence officer who specializes in finding unusual people who are just right for a military challenge. In this case it’s Hank...
by Richard Polt | Aug 22, 2026 | Book review
The Complete Manufacturing Process of a Vintage Typewriter: Archival Engineering Reconstruction—1930–1938 is a 73-page book published in 2025 by Type Space in Portland, Oregon. Type Space is a beautiful shop and cultural center run by Antony Valoppi with the...
by Richard Polt | Aug 20, 2026 | artificial intelligence
These screenshots come from a YouTube video titled “10 Antique Typewriters in Your Attic Worth a Fortune! (Most People Don’t Know What They Have).” The whole thing is AI-generated. It doesn’t pretend to be anything else, but I still think...
by Richard Polt | Jul 11, 2026 | font
This is a typewriter typeface?? Yes! It’s listed in a 1939 Varityper catalogue as “Diacritical”— but I think a better name for it is “Varityper Ornate.” Want to type with it? You can. It’s a new free download from the fonts section of The Classic...
