Recipient
Process Type Foundry · Eric Olson · 2022
A monospaced text face by Eric Olson that draws on IBM Selectric and Olivetti typewriter designs from the final years of pre-digital office typography.
About
Five weights with matching italics give Recipient enough range for text and small headlines while maintaining the fixed-pitch rhythm of its typewriter forebears. Eric Olson blends drawn and geometric elements to keep it from feeling purely historicist, and practical OpenType features including pre-built fractions, superscripts, subscripts and arrows extend its usefulness for technical and editorial settings. Released in 2022, it sits in a small category of typefaces that look squarely at the office machine heritage without simple pastiche.
Classification
Explicitly a monospaced typeface, descended from IBM Selectric and Olivetti typewriter faces, combining drawn and geometric elements for text and headline use.