1967 Midland Bank letter: grotesk and typewriter

Question

• “Midland Bank Limited” logo
• bank’s contact info block (Univers?)
• letter body

Answer 1

This is Folio Extra Bold.

Yes, the contact info is Univers.

Comments

And the typewriter font?

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Typewriter identification is its own challenge and requires experts in that field who probably don’t frequent here. I’d look into typewriter enthusiast sites.

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Do you happen to know of any of those?

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My friend Thomas Phinney, a font forensics expert, says:

Well, there is the Haas Atlas. http://www.asqde.org/resources/haas.html

But I actually tend to shy away from typewriter stuff for the most part. Such a huge number of often trivially distinct fonts, ouch!