Boys and girls...I have a pair of GI socks that is probably older than many on this thread...now tell me this...I don’t recall ever hearing about font’s until the computer age....and yes I typed on manual as well as electric which there were rare in 1961, however by 1964 there were a few more. However fonts....hell you just got a typewriter and that was it.... That being said if you were in the business you probably knew about fonts, but the average person had never heard of them.
You’re right about you got whatever fonts were on a manual typewriter when you bought it. Or at least the ones I remembered with the long keys that striked the ribbon - whatever their technical term might be. However, if the ones with balls could be exchanged but I don’t know when those came out. I have an electric typewriter from the mid-70’s and it has interchangeble fonts that come on a wheel cartridge but that also uses a plastic-like ribbon which this KCOLB definitely isn’t typed with. This alleged document looks like it is typed with an inked cloth ribbon. See the light and darker shading of the letters as more or less ink is distributed. Also, some of the letters such as the “a”, “A”, and “s” show a build up of ink within the closed so slightly closed areas of the letters. As I said early this morning, I’m leaning toward a Royal model typewriter but I haven’t found which font it used.
The visual feel is quite similar to various documents I have around that era. The printed form itself (not the filled in from a typewriter) appears ok for that time. But who knows.
Also, see the top left corner? What are those two dots? Could it be from a staple? I can’t get it zoomed closer than 400% so can’t determine if the dots are holes and if the holes are ragged and if there might be staple indentations.
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The two different font/type or whatever were Pica and Elite. Pica was larger, probably equal to 12 pt. type and Elite was smaller, probably equal to 10 pt. type.
By the way, just how old are those socks?