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Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
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Re: Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
#32Comic sans is quirky and wholesome. I'm tired of pretending I don't like it.
Re: Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
#33What do you think you’re running from? The disease is inside you!
Re: Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
#34I couldn't resist.
https://github.com/rbanffy/3270_type_element
Now I need to get myself an IBM Selectric, or make a daisy wheel printer element for my typewriter (which will eventually become a terminal).
Re: Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
#35[flagged]
I too irrationally hate incredibly legible typefaces. https://dyslexichelp.org/why-is-comic-sans-good-for-dyslexia...
Cyanide and Happiness reference, for graet justis.[0]
(maybe not NSFW, but... eh. edgy. it's up to you.)
Re: Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
#36> I have not yet printed and tested this exact model! Sadly that sums up the 3D printable scene perfectly. So many times I’v seen someone creating X for Y but they don’t have Y to test it but “it should work”.
Looks like the same person made a typeball for Cherokee, and that comes with a picture of the printed output:
https://www.printables.com/model/441262-cherokee-typeball-fo...
So maybe Comic Sans (and Wingdings) will work as well.
Re: Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
#37The problem with this 3D-printed typeball is that without being injection-molded with an extremely durable plastic, it will not make good strike. I suspect it would also be torn apart (separating at the printed layers), beginning with the smaller common characters (e.g. the period/comma would quickly fail). The typeball hits the paper hard and it is under incredible rotational strains.
I've recently retired an IBM Selectric II, only because it is so damn finicky! When it is operating it is a fantastic machine, but it definitely needs a full-time technician to service (and they've almost entirely died off at this point, save for Berkeley). I got tired of the pulley creep [which eventually leads to gibberish output], only solved with continued maintenance (parts too fine for my electrician hands, and my nearsight is antiquating rapidly).
For my daily drivers, I still love my Smith Corona "Coronet Super 12", which has individual strikes and a powerful motor (for all your latenight raging / brainstorming). Can't [easily] change the font, though (which is why I have multiple S-C models).
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Re: Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
#38The problem with this 3D-printed typeball is that without being injection-molded with an extremely durable plastic, it will not make good strike. I suspect it would also be torn apart (separating at the printed layers), beginning with the smaller common characters (e.g. the period/comma would quickly fail). The typeball hits the paper hard and it is under incredible rotational strains. I've recently retired an IBM Se…
> without being injection-molded with an extremely durable plastic, it will not make good strike.
I wonder how true that actually is. A properly 3d printed ABS part isn't really much if any less durable than an injection molded part. It's mostly just worse with respect to feature resolution.
Re: Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
#39> I have not yet printed and tested this exact model! Sadly that sums up the 3D printable scene perfectly. So many times I’v seen someone creating X for Y but they don’t have Y to test it but “it should work”.
They also link a version that works they say.
https://selectricrescue.org/
Also includes Papyrus!
Re: Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure. And it's given away for free, so complaining feels wrong. But is it _too_ much to ask that they print their tweaked version 2 and test it before publishing it? :sigh:
Why don’t you print and test it and contribute to the documentation? Too much to ask as well? ;)
He is not the author. The author’s post would still say I’ve never tested this and leave people uncertain about whether it’s actually a viable design.
I feel like as a matter of policy or at least convention, people really shouldn’t be uploading models that they haven’t at least printed. It’s disrespectful.