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Minimum system requirements
Font installation
Family information
Release Notes
Known issues
Customer care
Other resources
Windows®
Macintosh
For information on installing these fonts, see http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fontinstall_en.
History
The typewriter was patented in 1868 by Christopher Latham Sholes, who sold his rights to the Remington Arms Company in 1873. The first typewriters were initially thought to be replacements for printing and so typewriter keybars utilized printing types; monospaced typefaces, that is, those designed so every letter takes up the same amount of space were a more practical alternative and soon replaced printing types. Monospaced designs are still in use as typewriter typefaces today. In 1974, Joel Kaden and Tony Stan adapted the friendliness and immediacy of typewriter letter styles into a proportionally spaced typeface, ITC American Typewriter. ITC American Typewriter can be used for business correspondence or in any work that requires an old-fashioned, personal look. The “A” faces are identical to the regular ones, except for alternate versions of the following characters: &, $, R, e.
Menu Names And Style Linking
In many Windows® applications, instead of every font appearing on the menu, fonts are grouped into style-linked sets, and only the name of the base style font for a set is shown in the menu. The italic and the bold weight fonts of the set (if any) are not shown in the font menu, but can still be accessed by selecting the base style font, and then using the italic and bold style buttons. In this family, such programs will show only the following base style font names in the menu:
American Typewriter Std Cn
American Typewriter Std Lt
American Typewriter Std Lt Cn
American Typewriter Std Med
The other fonts in this family must be selected by choosing a menu name and then a style option following the guide below.
| Menu Name | plus Style Option... | selects this font | ||
| American Typewriter Std Cn | [none] | ITC American Typewriter Std Condensed | ||
| American Typewriter Std Cn | Bold | ITC American Typewriter Std Bold Condensed | ||
| American Typewriter Std Lt | [none] | ITC American Typewriter Std Light | ||
| American Typewriter Std Lt Cn | [none] | ITC American Typewriter Std Light Condensed | ||
| American Typewriter Std Med | [none] | ITC American Typewriter Std Medium | ||
| American Typewriter Std Med | Bold | ITC American Typewriter Std Bold | ||
On the Mac OS, although each font appears as a separate entry on the font menu, users may also select fonts by means of style links. Selecting a base style font and then using the style links (as described above for Windows) enhances cross-platform document compatibility with many applications, such as Microsoft® Word and Adobe PageMaker®, although it is unnecessary with more sophisticated Adobe applications such as recent versions of Illustrator®, Photoshop® or InDesign®.
One should not, however, select a base font which has no style-linked variant, and then use the bold or italic styling button. Doing so will either have no effect, or result in programmatic bolding or slanting of the base font, which will usually produce inferior screen and print results.
For all fonts of family ITC American Typewriter Std: version 2.020 created on Wed Jun 13 17:58:24 2007.
version 2.020 created 2007/06/13
version 1.040 created 2002/10/12
Customer Service
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Support Plan Options and Technical Resources
If you require technical assistance for your product, including information on free and paid support options and troubleshooting resources, more information is available at http://www.adobe.com/go/support/. Outside of North America, go to http://www.adobe.com/go/intlsupport/. Free troubleshooting resources include Adobe’s support knowledgebase, Adobe user-to-user forums and more.
Online Resources
Adobe Type Showroom
Adobe Type Showroom - all current Read-Me files for our font families
User Forums