Selectric typewriter font

Thomas Watson Jr. (the 2nd president of IBM, 1952–1971) called Selectric golf ball “the most totally distinct invention we’ve ever made as a company.”

Michael A. Covington. IBM Selectric Typewriter Resource Page

Genesis of the golfball. 100 years of influences on the Selectric, 1856 to 1956

Selectric typewriter font

What is your instrument in composing? You are one of the few writers I know
who still uses an electric typewriter. What’s wrong with a personal computer?

Hunter S. Thompson: I’ve tried. There is too much temptation to go over
the copy and rewrite. I guess I’ve never grown accustomed to the silent,
non-clacking of the keys and the temporary words put up on the screen.
I like to think that when I type something on this [pointing to the typewriter],
when I’m finished with it, it’s good. I haven’t gotten past the second paragraph
on a word processor. Never go back and rewrite while you’re working.
Keep on it as if it were final.

Dodo, italic, swashes

Using OpenType, you can keep not only smallcaps and ligatures, but alike some different variations ('stylistic alternates') of your italic ascenders and descenders in the same font file. That will be available in desktop publishing software via Character / Paragraph — OpenType — Swashes, Stylistic Alternates, Titling Alternates...

@LIGATURES = [f_f fi fl f_j f_f_i f_f_l f_f_j ct s_t longs_t W_h];
@LETTERS_UC_SWASH = [A.swash ... Z.swash];

feature swsh { # swashes
    sub @LETTERS_UC by @LETTERS_UC_SWASH;
    sub @LETTERS_LC by @LETTERS_LC_SWASH;
} swsh;

Dodo, revision 2016