well I selected the font because it is fixed width and old-timey :-)
But it does look to me like what I remember - not that THAT proves
anything :-) Possible slightly diferent keypunches had different
fonts, or they evolved over the years. But what was definite was
that the font was not proportional.
I also considered eliminating the type on the card altogether
and then writing "The Good Old Days" outside the card, above
or below.
No use downloading fonts unless they will work within Elements 5.0
I found the chart for the pnches on line - I didn't remember them
cold.
ann
On 2/23/2014 15:37, steve harley wrote:
on 2014-02-22 11:00 Ann Sanfedele wrote
and I could. I considered making it without the type (I tried to make
it look
as much as what I remember the "font" to be when "punching" the holes in
photoshop).
it's a fun concept, but i don't think that font is accurate; looks like
American Typewriter, and i remember a more stripped down typeface on
punch cards; i tried to find you a more accurate typeface, and came up
with this:
<http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/webfonts/index-en.html#fonts_set>
that is a large group of fonts, and you may have trouble unpacking the
download - contact me offlist if you'd like me to send the most
appropriate fonts
i found it by way of this amusing tool which executes google searches by
teletype:
<http://www.masswerk.at/google60/>
i didn't use punch cards much - at university i was lucky to plunge
directly into interactive CRT terminal use in 1978; on the side i had a
research assistantship with Arthur Swersey, a disarmingly non-conformant
biz school professor who wouldn't blink when i showed up at his office
in bare feet and cutoffs; one of my many tasks with Prof. Swersey was to
set up some SIMULA jobs to run on an IBM 360; i think that, about 1981,
was my only contact with punch cards, and it felt pretty old-fashioned
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