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Sep 16: Analyzing the CBS/USA Today Killian memos
Here is the techical analysis completed: An Examination of Character Fonts in the CBS and USA Today Killian Memos The main points are:

  • The font used is not (as indicated by numerous Websites) the "default Microsoft" (or Adobe True Type) font for Microsoft Word. Specifically it is not Times New Roman - the lower case "L" and the "a" and other characters look different in the Killian documents. See below.
  • As far as can be established, variations in characters that appear in the Killian documents could take several weeks to try to produce if you used a graphical editing program. Why not use a typewriter?

See additional notes at the bottom.

 

Highlights
From the CBS Killian Aug 18 document: From Microsoft Word the 'default' TrueType
Times New Roman
From an actual Typewriter font called "Typewriter New Roman" downloaded from the:
Free-Typewriter-Fonts
Top of lower case "L" is square.
Back of "a"
slants down from left to right.
Lower case L is pointed.
Back of "a" is straight up and down.
Top of lower case L is square.
Back of "a"
slants down from left to right.
The "LA" is from the word: "Alabama" in Times New Roman and Typewriter font:
found in CBS copy of:
August 18 1973 (CBSNews)
To left, each lowercase "a" in "Alabama" has subtle variations. About: when typed into a word processor, each lower case "a" is identical.
From May 4, 1972 (CBSNews) From the word processor:

The "7"s do not align vertically the third one starts lower. The downstroke length appears different In the word processor each "7" is aligned vertically and has the same downstroke.

See also:
All six memos published by (USA Today)
Notes:
A full article An Examination of Character Fonts in the CBS and USA Today Killian Memos discusses character variations and vertical misalignments found in the Killian documents that could not be produced with a Word processor and/or the "default Microsoft font." To learn more about Vertical Misalignment see: PC Printing: Current and Past Technologies.

About "L" vs. One: At first I thought this was just someone typing lower case "L" instead of "1" because that's what they grew up with. Many typewriters did not have a "1" key. But it's not. However the MS Word True Type Times New Roman is simply different from the font in the Killian memos and this glaring difference is why I contacted CBS. See below:

About "th's" As I told CBS, I'm not an expert in what a Selectric typing element has or can do. I do know that in Microsoft Word, to produce a non-superscript "th" you have to go out of your way to do it - which did get said fairly clearly. What I said I believe was: "There is one document from May of 1972 which contains a normal ''th"at the top. To produce that in Microsoft Word, you would have to go out of your way to type the letters and then turn the "th" setting off or back over them and type them again."

To expand and clarify. First you definitely do have to go out of your way to do this. As stated, you can turn off the automatic setting (for text formatting for instance). Or you can type spaces, then go back and insert "th" in between them. Then delete the first space but DON'T PRESS the space bar. If you
forget and press the space bar after the "h", the "th" will automatically superscript. Then you have to erase it and type it all over again. That is how it works.


Easier to use a typewriter. In total, I made two statements: 1) to CBS and 2) to the New York Times is: "It doesn't look like you can do this very easily. If you use something like Photoshop you could come close to faking it, but why not just go out and buy a Selectric for US$75?" Sep 15, 2004 this article by JimRutenberg and Kate Zernike re-published (Taipai Times)
 
 
 


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Killian Documents: Typewriter or Word?
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2000 Mar 23 No business like e-business A silly little song about B2B

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