this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2024
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I purchased this last week in Wellington, Colorado. The Model D Executive has an unusual feature for a typewriter: a proportionally-spaced font.

This typewriter still needs a lot of work, I plan to have it professionally serviced soon.

I look forward to using it for writing letters.

The typewriter is HEAVY. When you hit the carriage return and the platen snaps back, it shakes the whole desk.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good question! Proportional-spacing is the opposite of monospace, not all characters are the same width.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago