Thursday, January 27, 2011

Typecast: When Hermes 3000s misbehave

  
For some idea of my disappointment, here is a peek at the Epoca typeface I'm being denied, taken from a Hermes type style sheet from the early '70s:

See? Totally cute.

I don't have any pictures of the typewriter yet, but here is an ad taken from a November '67 Rotarian magazine (courtesy of Google books). Let's hope we can sort out the typewriter and explore all the exciting features touted here:

3 comments:

  1. can you pick up the other one and swap the carriage?

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  2. notagain has an interesting suggestion. As I've said before, the carriage is easy to remove -- but tricky to put back. I do suspect that there's a mechanical problem and you're going to have to take that carriage off; this can't just be a question of poor lubrication.

    I agree that the '60s design for the 3000 is less inspiring, but in my limited experience this later version is smoother and easier to type on than the '50s machine.

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  3. I recently tried one of these Hermes 3000 - it works like a charm. It has techno script typeface, which seems very similar to, but is not identical with epoca (I just checked on your August entry on "typeface wars"). As I said, I still don't find these boxier shapes of the later Hermes 3000s very appealing, but the quality is top. Here some photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shordzi/5382420014/in/set-72157620618131983/ . (note that some keys are keys are changed, ex. "tab")

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