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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.

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.

Cover from the book Art Typing by Julius Nelson 1940.
More info here. Pic by Janine Vangool.

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.

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