Condensed Typewriter font with Cyrillic/extended Latin support? - Adobe Typography

I agree with the choice of a typewriter font for titles (or most running text) is just a bad choice. It is special-purpose. One problem, of course, with most typewriter fonts is that they are monospaced and are designed to appear least objectionable when set that way. Tracking and scaling won't improve their appearance worth the effort.

American Typewriter Cond is properly optically spaced, but the clunky typewriter serifs drag it down visually. I'd suggest a sans serif "typewriter" font, but then, it won't look like a, um, typewriter font.

That said, I looked at several dozen typewriter fonts. I saw none even close to American Typewriter Cond for appearance or readability.

Neil

In article <3bc3d0a8.-1@webcrossing.la2eafNXanI>,
Joel_Cherney@adobeforums.com wrote:

> Can any of you suggest a typewriter-lookin' font that has the glyphs
> for these languages (or Cyrillic, at least), that also has a
> condensed face?

Officina Serif is not exactly condensed, but it seems narrower than
average:

<http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/detail.htm?pid=431967>.

URW Typewriter doesn't have a condensed version, but it would probably
survive pseudo-condensing better than Courier:

<http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/detail.htm?pid=410163>.

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