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The Typewriter Revolution

Craving your first typewriter? Curious about the creative possibilities? Want to join the movement?

THE TYPEWRITER REVOLUTION is your field guide to the 21st-century typewritten world.

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evertype

The narrator of EVERTYPE has wrenched himself loose from everything he’d become. Now he’s retreated to a forgotten town, armed only with a bike and a twentieth-century writing machine. Does he stand a chance of escaping the surveillance, terror, disease, and demagoguery of our times?

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the classic typewriter page

Online since 1995, this site has become a center for the love of typewriters and their history. Find user manuals, photos of famous writers with their favorite writing machines, repair shops from around the world … even download free typewriter fonts like the one you’re seeing right now.

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THE typewriter MANIFESTO

The credo of the insurgency. The fist of resistance against the Paradigm. Read it, type it, live by it.

Check out The Typewriter Revolution Manifesto in over a dozen languages. Your language not covered? Type it out, take a photo and email me. I’ll post it here.

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The Typewriter Revolution

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Good mail day.

by Richard Polt | Jan 12, 2026 | correspondence

Now, that's what I call a good mail day.OK, seven of these nine were waiting for me at Xavier after a month's break, so they didn't all arrive on the same day. But this still makes me feel great to be part of the typosphere.

A Lettera 22 with ALL the trimmings

Jan 11, 2026 | Olivetti

At the antique mall today, there was nothing rare—just a few Underwoods, a KMM, and a Lettera 22.But this is a very special Lettera 22—or Lettera 22 package. I didn't buy it, as I really don't need it, but I documented it, because it looks like this machine comes...

A 3D-printed Mignon

Jan 10, 2026 | future

A post by Scott K. alerted me to this amazing project by Keenan Finucan on Thingiverse. If it really works, it is the first realization of a new age of typewriter production using 21st-century technology, as I imagined in the last chapter of The Typewriter...

An Evertype review

Jan 3, 2026 | Evertype

I'm grateful to Sean B. of Calgary for this review of Evertype. I'm so pleased that it tickled his brain as I had hoped it would. For me, the main point of writing this book was just to write it, but seeing it appreciated by the right kind of reader is a treat. ...

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See California Typewriter

DIRECTED by Doug Nichol

THE TYPEWRITER REVOLUTION appears in this film along with Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, and others who love and enjoy typewriters. See this film and be inspired to discover an analog world lurking under the digital surface of our century.