When it's 1943 and your job is handling some of the most sensitive military intelligence in the world, but you think your reports would still benefit from a little extra razzle-dazzle:

At this date, the person credited with writing the report would not be the person who typed it.

"Graphic design is my passion" WWII edition

Followed on the basis of that. The rest of yyour tweets do not disappoint!

might the shape be an allusion to Churchill's 'v for victory?'

This feels like something a 1949s teenager would make as the cover page for their burn book

Every typewritten document I've seen from the WW2 era is absolutely amazing, the tables and text blocks are incredibly readable and well-organized. Everything went downhill when we started laying-off typists. Will die on this hill, taking no questions etc.

(photo from NARA collections, RG 498)

We were still using these skills in Corporate America in the late 80s/early 90s.