Sweet Sounds of Vintage Typing in the Form of an App

When I first decided to become a writer, I didn’t know much about typewriters.  We didn’t have one, and I was just a kid.  Pens and pencils were the way to go, as were notebooks, and personal diaries with little locks on them that you could pick with a hairpin, should you lose the key.

A few years later, typewriters made their way into my life and I was hooked. They were beautiful, complex, and oh the sound they made.  Click clack click click click tink frrrrrip.  Whole manuscripts of novels and plays and movies were typed on these things.  One day I would have a room full of them.  Boxes of paper at my disposal.  Things would be written and sent out to publishing houses and magazines.  And I would have loads of incredible works under my name.  A famous author?  Sure, why not.  The click clack click click click tink frrrrrip would see too it.

At the time, I had no dreams of modern electric typewriters, nor did I dream of word processors or computer keyboards, though all of these eventually came into my life.  Each with their own distinct sound.  Each enticing in their own way.  However, I do have to say that the clacking of keys on your ipad, iphone, or your typical laptop, leaves much to be desired as far as strength of sound, if any.  A manual or electric typewriter holds a better resonance and generates a sound that is craved by many. 

One genius of a creative developed an app that emanates the sound of, dare I say it, a real typewriter. Theo Watson of Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab has created this masterpiece of an app for Mac.  Even without lugging around a clunky, albeight gorgeous, typewriter, you can enjoy it wherever you may be…

Thank you Theo, from the bottom of our hearts, the tips of our fingertips, and the innards of our ears.