Selectric Century

What is the Selectric Century Font?

Also known as Schoolbook. 900+ glyphs.. After Linn Boyd Benton’s and Morris Fuller Benton’s 1894 lower contrast version of Scotch Modern, Didone.. The part of the large project on revival and further development (by drawing many additional glyphs) of the 20th century’s typewriters’ fonts.. And especially the most famous, versatile and beautiful typewriter: IBM Selectric’s golfball fonts, lost for the civilization for many decades after ‘80s, not being created since then in digital vector form.. This new sub-project started in July 2018 for the restoration of the most beautiful classical typefaces, used during the 20th century on the extremely rare now IBM Selectric Composer typewriters / desktop publishing systems.. Together with Nick Hamze and the Right Reverend Theodore Munk, the collectors of old typewriters.. IBM showed the perfect taste by developing these best historical book typefaces of the human civilization for typewriters. So people could type then using both the real book faces, and the famous classical ones.

Selectric Century Font Families

When you download Selectric Century, the family will include the following font styles:

• Selectric Century Bold

Preview of the Selectric Century Font

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Who Designed the Selectric Century Font?

Selectric Century was designed by Alexander Bobrov, Linn Boyd Benton, Morris Fuller Benton.

This font has 1 style(s) and was published by Indian Summer Studio.

Is Selectric Century a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Selectric Century is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Selectric Century. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Selectric Century for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Selectric Century if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Selectric Century to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Selectric Century for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Selectric Century, it was available for as little as $40.00.