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Old electronic typewriter font needed for a project

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Could someone please help me identify this font ?

It was pretty common on electronic typewriters from the late 80'/90's. Often combined with a Courier serif type font.

What's the name of that font (big titles seems like an ultra wide/expended familiar serif font) ? Has it been digitised ?

Thank you for your help ! :)

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Exercices p2, leçon II titre.jpg

La correspondance à Rome font.jpg

La correspondance à Rome (extrait).jpg

Sorry, but this forum deals mostly with typefaces used for traditional print and digital work—typewriter fonts are a specialty unto themselves, and while some were recreated as metal typefaces back in the day and as digital faces within the last 40 years or so, I'm not finding a match to this one.

Oddly enough, the Latin characters of the system font MS Mincho come very close to the smallest type in your sample.

1 hour ago, Kevin Thompson said:

the Latin characters of the system font MS Mincho come very close to the smallest type in your sample.

And it could well be it (or, rather, the typeface from which the Latin portion of MS Mincho was lifted/drew inspiration), since the sample seems from some kind of printer rather than from an electric typewriter.

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Thanks for your input guys ! 🙏

I found a pretty close match to the smaller font I posted : since I have the original copy I scanned for the samples, I found that Courier 10 Pitch W07 is a solid match when I compared the printouts side by side. However no exact match was found for the expanded/wide font.

In the meantime, I found TA Regresso Pro Little Light that comes pretty much close to the wide expanded fount from the sample. 😀

It is not a perfect match but it is pretty good !

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