: What typewriter font is used in this document? What typewriter font is used in this document?: If yes: Can I download a freely (as in freedom) usable font file for use in text editors ?

@Murphy569

It might be related to Hermes typeface Techno Square Elite or maybe Techno Pica depending on the space between letters. Some Hermes fonts are available in this blog online: offountainpenstypewriters.blogspot.com/2012/05/not-so-junk-hermes-3000-and-hermes.html

Whatever it is, your type sample looks like the type on my Hermes 3000 with straight lower case 'p' and squared off 'o'. I love it. It is a very clean, readable and slightly retro typeface. Best!

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@Welton168

I found it. In EWD1000 Dijkstra mentions the typewriter he apparently used for the bulk of his manuscripts until he started mostly handwriting them around 1979:


By the time I went to the Technological University of Eindhoven —Sept. 1962— I was an expert typist. Asked whether I had any special wishes —in those days new professors were supposed to have special wishes— I shocked my future colleagues by asking an electric Hermes Ambassador with the Techno Elite type fount and special characters according to my specifications.


The type samples I've found for Hermes Techno Elite don't have the same numerals as his typewriter. Presumably those were taken from another font as part of his customization. Possibly Hermes Elite since it's the only 12 pitch font in the sample with a "4" extending below the baseline.

He also mentions than an earlier Hermes Media typewriter with the Techno font that had a full set of brackets and braces:


I then allowed myself the luxury of a portable typewriter, which I still have. [It had square brackets.] {It had braces too.} I could also type -> and => . In early 1960 I used it for, say, a dozen EWD's...

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@Holmes874

This font www.fontsaddict.com/font/albertsthal-typewriter.html is very similar to the one in the document.

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@Lengel450

Surprised at the low level of response here. It is quite possible to convert a physical, mechanical typewriter font to a digital font: site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-fonts.html
What's posted in the query is an unwitting 'typecast'. Welcome to The Typosphere: typosphere.net
The font used above is Techno: offountainpenstypewriters.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/mysterious-hermes-3000-techno-pica.html

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@Shakeerah625

Magda Clean Mono Regular is similar, but it ain't free !

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@Cofer715

This looks a lot like Artisan which was an IBM Selectric Typewriter Ball typeface. The typefaces could be changed by swapping the ball.

Check this specimen:
selectric.org/selectric/fonts/artisan12.gif
I suspect some of the blockiness in the PDF is from a low resolution black and white (threshold) scan and ink bleed on the paper.
www.dafont.com/artisan-12.font

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@Gloria351

Acutally that is pdf converted from image. With this tool you can find out which font is that.
www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

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@Caterina889

That is not a font. (Font meaning digital file for a typeface)

That is an actual typewriter page which has been scanned and then converted to a PDF. The PDF only contains Lucida, Lucida Bold, and Lucida Italic.

If You are merely searching for Typewriter fonts MyFonts.com has a large selection.

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