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\"typewriter\"<\/p>\n

Having amassed an array of awards, including a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a BAFTA, one of the world\u2019s most revered actors has this month released not a film, but a blockbuster of another sort \u2013 an app,\u00a0known as the Hanx Writer, which predictably, has topped the iTunes download charts.<\/p>\n

Although here at The Pen Company, we adore pens, it is important to show some TLC to other writing implements in the world, and there are few we love more than the humble typewriter \u2013 especially when they\u2019re endorsed by the great Tom Hanks.<\/p>\n

Available in three versions for the iPad, the app is available for free download, and since its release on August 15, has stormed the App Store download rankings, finding its way to the number one spot in just under ten days.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the late ’70’s, I bought a typewriter \u2013 portable enough for world travel and sturdy enough to survive decades of ten-fingered beatings,\u201d Hanks said on the app\u2019s introduction page, \u201cI’ve since acquired many more \u2013 each different in design, action, and sound. Each one stamps into paper a permanent trail of imagination through keys, hammers, cloth and dye \u2013 a softer version of chiseling words into stone.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what do you do on the Hanx Writer?<\/h2>\n

Quite simply, once downloaded the app provides the user with the allusion of working on a manual typewriter, providing feels and sounds, including the celebrated \u2018ding\u2019 of writing to the end of a line.<\/p>\n

Although the app is of course free, users are able to purchase an array of different colours, texts and styles in the form of additional packages on the App Store.<\/p>\n

But why has Tom created the app?<\/h2>\n

Even before the app was published, Hanks has not been secretive about his love for the devices, having regularly discussed them on his social accounts, and in 2012, the actor was even cajoled into\u00a0working on an independent project<\/a>\u00a0simply by being gifted a 1934 Corona Silent Typewriter.<\/p>\n

.@AppStore<\/a>\u00a0cause I find it’s like music that spurs along the creative urge. Bang bang clack-clack-clack puckapuckapuckapucka…\u00a0#HanxWriter<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Tom Hanks (@tomhanks)\u00a0August 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He even\u00a0wrote an article in Time Magazine<\/a>\u00a0discussing amongst other things, the different sounds of his favourite typewriters. For instance:<\/p>\n

\u201cRemingtons from the 1930s go THICK THICK. Midcentury Royals sound like a voice repeating the word CHALK. CHALK. CHALK CHALK.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven the typewriters made for the dawning jet age (small enough to fit on the fold-down trays of the first 707s), like the Smith Corona Skyriter and the design masterpieces by Olivetti, go FITT FITT FITT like bullets from James Bond\u2019s silenced Walther PPK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Where is the best place to get a real typewriter?<\/h2>\n

If you\u2019re interested in purchasing your very own typewriter, places such as Gumtree, eBay and Craigslist are great places to find them, but if you want a little advice on the best writers,\u00a0The Typewriter Database<\/a>\u00a0is a great place to find all you need to know about individual machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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