[Adammon]

Typewriters depended on how hard you mashed the key to determine the darkness of the print.

[NoGrayZone]

Did they make different S’s as well?

[Smokeyblue]

“Typewriters depended on how hard you mashed the key to determine the darkness of the print.”

Do they tilt too? See the “K” in Wichita, Kansas.

[KarlInOhio]

Typewriters depended on how hard you mashed the key to determine the darkness of the print.

Also ribbons reversed when they hit the end and were struck multiple times (unlike later film, one use only ribbons), so type darkness varied based on how much that space on the ribbon had been used.