Blickensderfer Blackletter (blue fingers)

Starting with typewheel 407...

....and then swapped to a Blackletter wheel.

To make it easier to see how the ink is spread over a typewheel, swapping in a white typewheel:

It needs 'wetting' for the first characters, but then starts to be properly inked and type:

On a white wheel the blue ink clearly shows up.

The pattern of ink on the wheel nicely illustrates the Blickensderfer scientific layout; the most inked are the most frequently used letters that have the smallest rotation of the wheel.

This Blickensderfer 7 now back to the black wheel - it perhaps makes sense that Blickensderfer wheels were black, even if only for appearances sake :)