Typewritten fonts by Murielle Rouleau (top, using only m) and Julius Nelson (bottom, using X and _). From Today’s Secretary 1950-1951. Scanned by Marcin Wichary.
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Typewriter works by Julius Nelson in the 1930s. From a good article in The Atlantic. We have more of Nelson.
Typewriter Mystery Games by Julius Nelson (1951). Thanks to Andrew Belsey for the tip.
Update: now available on archive.org
News article from 1947 about Julius Nelson – a typewriter artist who wrote several books on the subject. An interesting interview where he gives good advice on typewriter art – or artyping as he liked to call it. He organized a competition every year, and received thousands of entries.
He also worked with “typewriter mystery games”. They were basic instructions such as “type Q four times, press return” which resulted in an image. There is an example in the article. It seems that he wrote books about typing well into the 1980s.
(via popmech)