Bluemerle

I learn about kerning kluges from an expert, via Allah, who invokes the quintessential Bill Paxton moment.

Relevant to the CBS memos, there is a kind of "smart spacing" that True-type fonts use, called the ABC dimensions.

Examine carefully the “fr” in the word “from” in the 18-August-1973 memo.. The “r” is tucked under the “f” in the same way a Microsoft font does it. In 1972, technology available in the office, including proportional typewriters, could not do this So it is clear that the only way this document could have been done is using a modern computer font, and the placement is pixelwise identical to Microsoft’s Times New Roman.

The title of this post is a reference to special cold type or hot-lead linotype slugs
for paired characters, or ligatures, that looked better closer together.
Common ligatures "included fi, fl, ffi, ffl, among others."

And I still offer a handy kerfuffle bag with a three-jar end-times supply of non-perishable vegemite to the first person to send me a screen capture of Dan Rather forced to confess his fraud upon the public.

I fired him Trumpishly, and all evidence of CBS has been removed from our televisions and assorted television paraphernalia.

Alternate meltdown scenarios qualify; should you spy something like Right Wing Conspirator says he did,
I'll throw in extra.