Reply #59: The tightness of the -fi- could mean it was done on an Executive

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Look at the samples of Executive typing I posted above in posts #39 and #57. As I explain in #57, the Executive used a pretty rough and ready method of proportional spacing, which meant that certain letters would be jammed together while others had obvious gaps between them.

If you look at the word "firm" in my post #39, you'll see that the -f- and -i- are almost touching, while there is a larger gap between the -i- and the -r-. If you look at the name "Glorfindel" in my post #57, you'll see that the -f- and -i- again are almost touching. In fact, the f's seem generally susceptible to jamming up against the letters after them -- note also the -fl- combinations in "briefly" and "flew."

Neither of these samples uses exactly the same font as the memoes. But the fonts are similar enough that the calculation of the propotional spacing was probably the same as well. And that means that an -fi- jam-up on the memo could actually help confirm it was typed on an Executive.