This is easily the best typewriter that I have ever used! (and for once, Consumer Reports agrees!--Usually my favorite typewriters were hated by Consumer Reports, especially the Royal Royalite, Smith-Corona Skyriter, Sears Tutor...) It is the easiest typewriter to use, and produces the neatest work I have ever seen from a typewriter. (The typeface is almost exactly Courier--Olympia called it "Copy Pica"--it looks just like this font.