An agent wants to see my proposal, but specified either Elite or Pica typeface. I don't have either. Where would one find that?
Elite or Pica typeface
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Sounds very old-fashioned to me. In the typewriter era pica was 12 point and elite was 10 point, but those were non-proportional fonts for typewriters. 12 point courier would be the closest to pica these days, I suppose.
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Elite and pica are typewriter terms. So I guess you're just have to find an electric typewriter for that. 
Just use Courier.
Just use Courier.
Yeah - it sounds picky to me too. I put the whole thing in Courier and will send it out today. If he doesn't like it, then he isn't someone I want to work with anyway!
I have fond memories of Pica.
Of course, they're from a REALLY LONG TIME AGO. So that's very weird...
Of course, they're from a REALLY LONG TIME AGO. So that's very weird...
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It seems really odd to me too. I thought I remembered those from my "typing in high school" days. I wonder why he has chosen to stick with that rather than changing his guidelines to say Courier???
I dunno - before the Macintosh (which originally used city names for its fonts!) and MS Windows became popular, "letter quality" computer printers generally only had choices of Pica or Elite for the typewheel or typeball, so even up to then the font names were a holdover from typewriters rather than from printing/typesetting. Maybe he thinks "My guidelines were fine 25 years ago, no reason to change them now."
Wow...now those are terms from the "way back machine." I totally thought you were kidding. I agree with everyone else, courier is probably going to be the closest.
Although I would still really recommend you send it in Courier, I found a Pica type font. For whatever that's worth.
Well, I shipped it out in Courier. But - I'll download that font for the next time someone asks for it (yeah, right - like that's gonna happen!)
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