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Computer fonts were originally made to mimic classic typewriter styles, as they were already in use and could be scanned in to create a font set. Hell, I can buy a piece of software that will let me make a font set of my own handwriting.
The fact that a computer program such as Word is a newer technology that essentially mimics and replaces an older technological device (typewriter) should not be ignored in this case. Computer keyboards followed the same design as typewriters, despite the fact that typewriter keyboards were designed that way for efficiency in the machine, not for our hands. Many different styles of key arrangment in computer keyboards are still in use to this day, but the "QWERTY" style is undoubtedly the overwhelming majority.
I don't think the fact that I can use a $500 piece of year-2004 typing software to mimic the font style on a pre-existing old-as-hell typewriter is very impressive at all, or very telling. I can take a photo and edit it so it looks like you're boning Bea Arthur, but that doesn't mean it happened.
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