Notices by Ramsey Nasser (nasser@merveilles.town)

i got my hands on an old east german arabic typewriter and ive been taking it for a spin! the thing is pretty wild. missing some obscure but important letters, representing some letters up to four different times to accommodate for the cursive nature of the script. the typeface is spartan but fine. it has a certain charm to it. i dont have a project in mind, just noodling for now.

the machine is on loan from the internet archive 🙏

this is the machine and its keyboard. it came out of the personal collection Martin Tytell, who's family maintained typewriters in New York City for decades. @textfiles found it when picking up documents from Tytell to add to the internet archive. it was one of 140 typewriters kept across multiple storage shuffles and collection down sizes, so it was special in some way. it came with this little tag attached too which I find fascinating.