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Equip yourself with these books and join the insurgency against the all-digital mindset.

The Typewriter Revolution

Craving your first typewriter? Curious about the creative possibilities? Want to join the movement?

THE TYPEWRITER REVOLUTION is your field guide to the 21st-century typewritten world.

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evertype

The narrator of EVERTYPE has wrenched himself loose from everything he’d become. Now he’s retreated to a forgotten town, armed only with a bike and a twentieth-century writing machine. Does he stand a chance of escaping the surveillance, terror, disease, and demagoguery of our times?

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the classic typewriter page

Online since 1995, this site has become a center for the love of typewriters and their history. Find user manuals, photos of famous writers with their favorite writing machines, repair shops from around the world … even download free typewriter fonts like the one you’re seeing right now.

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THE typewriter MANIFESTO

The credo of the insurgency. The fist of resistance against the Paradigm. Read it, type it, live by it.

Check out The Typewriter Revolution Manifesto in over a dozen languages. Your language not covered? Type it out, take a photo and email me. I’ll post it here.

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The Typewriter Revolution

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Get Victorian with me

by Richard Polt | Jul 11, 2026 | font

This is a typewriter typeface?? Yes! It's listed in a 1939 Varityper catalogue as “Diacritical”— but I think a better name for it is “Varityper Ornate.” Want to type with it? You can. It’s a new free download from the fonts section of The Classic Typewriter...

Typewriter ribbon inking machine

Jul 6, 2026 | ribbons

Now that Charlene Oesch of Baco Ribbons has passed away, many in the typosphere have been wondering what will become of her rare typewriter-inking equipment. I can report that it will not be junked; there is a likely buyer, and there are back-up takers in the...

A double gothic font

Jun 30, 2026 | font

For all you goths out there ...Now available on The Classic Typewriter Page.

Xenia type-in

Jun 27, 2026 | Type-in

Trevor Brumfield at work:Two big '70s Royals ... but the one on the left is really an Adler.Absorbed in a Voss (formerly mine, now Gery's):Fabulous decals designed by Erin Williams:Erin's Torpedo was made in West Germany and sold in Hong Kong:

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See California Typewriter

DIRECTED by Doug Nichol

THE TYPEWRITER REVOLUTION appears in this film along with Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, and others who love and enjoy typewriters. See this film and be inspired to discover an analog world lurking under the digital surface of our century.