Very long, but crazy well made presentation of the topic. Facinating.
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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Holy rabbit hole, Batman! Very interesting article if you're a typography geek.
Typography geek here.
If you enjoy watching about type in NYC, I recommend the documentary Helvetica (2007). Even though it has its biases (I mean which documentary doesn't), I enjoyed it.
I am in NO WAY interested in typography AT ALL and i found helvetica to be a super interesting documentary
And the sountrack made me a fan of el ten eleven
I probably wouldn't normally have looked at a photo gallery of Manhattan signs, but this made it really interesting.
At one point someone explained to me Gorton must have been a routing font, meant to be carved out by a milling machine rather than painted on top or impressed with an inked press.
Every stroke of Gorton is exactly the same thickness (typographers would call such fonts “monoline”).
Monoline fonts are not respected highly, because every type designer will tell you: This is not how you design a font.
Pen plotters need monoline fonts.
I've been kind of interested in fountain pen plotters recently, things like these, as I like the look of fountain pen stuff, but would rather use a computer to do stuff (repeatedly, at scale) than train my hand. I don't think that there's anything "bad" about monoline fonts. They're just designed for a specific purpose.
What a wonderfully enchanting exploration of Gorton.
I've had a soft spot for Gordon Modified for a long time, I use Signature Plastics keycaps on almost all my keyboards, with its wonderful rounded characters . There's just something about it, easy on the eyes, immediately legible at even small scales, it's a comfort font.
A damn good read, thanks for sharing
I'm going to have to download the font to give some use
I just downloaded and tried it. It's beautiful. Brings back so many memories.
Actually kind of an amazing read. I suspect it shall live another life on 3-axis router tables and such for a while. The mechanic is single stroke lettering remain the same
This was an awesome read!
Fascinating :)
That article is a work of art!