About IBM Punchcard 029 (1928)
The IBM 80-column punchcard was the universal data-entry medium of mid-20th-century computing — manila card-stock printed with precise grid lines, column numbers, and the IBM logo. This system distills that industrial-information artifact into a design language of warm cream paperboard, hairline black grids, and IBM industrial blue accents, where every column is a character and the constraint is the brand.
- Origin
- USA — IBM Endicott, Poughkeepsie, Lexington
- Era
- 1928 standardized; IBM 029 Keypunch 1964; phased out 1980s
- Key figures
- Herman Hollerith · Thomas J. Watson Sr. · IBM Engineering Design team
- Movements
- American business automation · mid-century data-processing aesthetics · Big-Iron-era IBM corporate identity
IBM Punchcard 029 (1928) design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
SairaHeadings
InterBody
JetBrains MonoMono
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