Typewriter Archive
Writing, stationery and editorial design
Make it say something of yours
Preview the free single style at its original weight, not every paid style. Your text stays on this page and is not saved or sent to analytics.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Compare five text sizes
The same text at five sizes, with default spacing and features.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Get the complete family
$15
Typewriter Archive includes 2 original styles for writing, stationery and editorial design. Download TTF and OTF desktop fonts plus WOFF and WOFF2 webfonts.
- 2 styles: Regular, Bold
- TTF and CFF-based OTF desktop files for every style
- WOFF and WOFF2 webfonts for every style
- Local HTML specimens, character coverage, and feature examples
- Version 0.500 under the included single-user commercial license
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Usage license: Licensed to one named individual for finished personal and commercial work, client artwork, physical merchandise, one website owned by that individual, and read-only document embedding. Additional users, client-site embedding, font resale or sharing, editable templates, and app, game, ebook, or server embedding are not included. These terms apply to the purchased files and do not restrict rights already granted for the free edition.
See the styles and details
These previews use the delivered fonts. Illustrations, textures, and mockups are presentation artwork, not included templates or extra styles. Open an image for a full-size view.
Free style or complete family?
Keep the free Regular style, or choose the 2-style family for more letterforms and OpenType features. You do not need to buy the family to use the free edition commercially or embed it.
- Included styles
- Free: one Regular style.
- Paid: Regular, Bold.
- File formats
- Both editions include TTF, OTF, WOFF, and WOFF2. The paid download includes these formats for every listed style.
- Character coverage
- Free: 571 encoded characters, including spaces.
- Paid: 571 encoded characters in each style, including spaces.
- Additional OpenType features in the paid family
- Contextual alternates (calt) — all paid styles.
- Case-sensitive forms (case) — all paid styles.
- Discretionary ligatures (dlig) — all paid styles.
- Stylistic set 1 (ss01) — all paid styles.
- Slashed zero (zero) — all paid styles.
Feature support varies by application. The live tester and character grid on the family page show the free style; paid-style artwork shows the purchased editions.
Free-edition license
Use, modify, and share this free product, including for commercial work. Font embedding in websites, apps, games, and documents is allowed. Do not sell the product files or repackaged copies. You may sell original work created with the fonts. Third-party materials keep their own licenses.
Read the free-product licenseThis license replaces earlier personal-use, household, classroom, no-sharing, and no-embedding restrictions on our free products, including notices in older downloads. Paid-product and third-party licenses are unchanged.
Paid-family license
Licensed to one named individual for finished personal and commercial work, client artwork, physical merchandise, one website owned by that individual, and read-only document embedding. Additional users, client-site embedding, font resale or sharing, editable templates, and app, game, ebook, or server embedding are not included. These terms apply to the purchased files and do not restrict rights already granted for the free edition.
Free-style OpenType, up close
The free Typewriter Archive style contains 622 glyphs: 571 encoded characters, 50 unencoded alternates, and one missing-character glyph reserved for unsupported input. Every alternate is represented in the feature samples below.
Ligatures
These combinations substitute a dedicated glyph for two or more letters. Compare the supported ligatures below with the same feature disabled.
Off
0123456789
On
0123456789
Off
0123456789
On
0123456789
Off
0123456789
On
0123456789
Off
0123456789
On
0123456789
Off
0123456789
On
0123456789
Off
1/2 3/4 5/8
On
1/2 3/4 5/8
Off
x́ q̈ v̧
On
x́ q̈ v̧
Off
ạ̈́
On
ạ̈́
Off
ff ffi ffl fi fl
On
ff ffi ffl fi fl
All ten digits are shown for each numeral style, including combined oldstyle and tabular figures. Feature support varies between applications. The inventory comes from the free edition's shipped font file.
The free-style character set
All 571 encoded characters in the free style. Select any character to inspect it. Combining marks sit on a lowercase a; spaces appear between A and B. Each is rendered as live text, not an image.
571 of 571 characters shown
Uppercase
Lowercase
Numerals
Punctuation
Extended letters
Combining marks
Other numbers
Symbols
Spacing characters
Before you install
Frequently Asked Questions
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See Typewriter Archive in use
These are live text samples rendered by the font file, not pictures. The same letters can be used in your own projects.
Case file 1962-04
Dear Mr. Hale,
Received: 14 May
Copy · Do not remove