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  1. Aug 2025
    1. https://typecast.munk.org/2011/04/23/1964-nomda-blue-book-olympia-font-styles/

      The following were the available Olympia type sizes as listed in the 1964 NOMDA Blue Book:

      • 10 pitch (2.6 m/m) pica
      • 11 pitch (2.3 m/m) elite
      • 12 pitch (2.1 m/m) elite
      • 17 pitch (1.5 m/m, calculated)

      Not in the NOMDA Blue Book, but found in the wild on a 1971 Olympia SG-3: - 6 pitch (4.2 m/m) with typeface: Basic Writing No. 67

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  6. Oct 2021
    1. Any fi nancial progress that black people made was regarded as an aff ront to white supremacy. After a decade of black gains under Reconstruction, a much longer period of racial violence would wipe nearly all of it away.

      CPI- I was not fully aware of the fact that Black people were able to make as much financial progress as they did, which only speaks to the fact that white people refused to accept that Black people could be successful and that they tried as hard as they could to stifle that success.

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