Designed by Blake Haber in 1996 and released as a free font for personal use.

“[…] created from the scanned pages of love letters written from my grandfather to my grandmother in the late 1930s and early 1940s (she replied in blue ink). There were no samples of a few of the  characters, so these were taken from fresh imprints of other manual typewriters of similar vintage.” [Dixie’s Delights Readme]