A monospaced geometric sans made specifically for typewriters.
Manufactured by Ransmayer & Rodrian [Kernaghan]
who showed a very similar design as Moderne
Pica-Blockschrift (Schrift Ra 280) [1932
catalog, but not 1928]. Royal first installed it on their
Portable machine, and advertised it in 1929 as Vogue
[ads]. It preceded Intertype’s Vogue and differs with its more
conventional ‘Q’, angle-barred ‘e’ (like Kabel’s), and
longer bottom stroke on ‘g’ (which Vogue offered as
alternates).
Rough freebie digitizations: Royal
Vogue (Richard Polt, 2011) and
Royal Vogue Typewriter 1929 (Tomasz Skowroński, 2017).
In 2023, Dave Hayden
made a basic digital font to create 3D-printed IBM Selectric font
elements.
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A monospaced geometric sans made specifically for typewriters. Manufactured by Ransmayer & Rodrian [Kernaghan] who showed a very similar design as Moderne Pica-Blockschrift (Schrift Ra 280) [1932 catalog, but not 1928]. Royal first installed it on their Portable machine, and advertised it in 1929 as Vogue [ads]. It preceded Intertype’s Vogue and differs with its more conventional ‘Q’, angle-barred ‘e’ (like Kabel’s), and longer bottom stroke on ‘g’ (which Vogue offered as alternates).
Rough freebie digitizations: Royal Vogue (Richard Polt, 2011) and Royal Vogue Typewriter 1929 (Tomasz Skowroński, 2017). In 2023, Dave Hayden made a basic digital font to create 3D-printed IBM Selectric font elements.
Reply (François Rappo, 2021) is loosely inspired by its use in the correspondence by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
