Very long, but crazy well made presentation of the topic. Facinating.
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 just downloaded and tried it. It’s beautiful. Brings back so many memories.
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.
This was an awesome read!
A damn good read, thanks for sharing
I’m going to have to download the font to give some use
That article is a work of art!
