The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)
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The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)
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#2Some past comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053419
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#3Cool to flip through their master copy typeface reference: https://archive.org/details/gorton-master-copy-type-for-all-...
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#4The site is killing my brave browser. Maybe long thin transoceanic paths, or phase of the moon.
So many partially loaded images.
But definitely worth the wait. A great read. I liked the almost mimetic quality of "which slightly broken font plate is being reused to make the broken "3" I keep seeing" which is a classic detective novel trope, e.g. Lord Peter Whimsey in "strong poison" and a typewriter glitch he recognises.
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#5It's a pretty font and gives that instant retro look on keyboards for example.
I've tried it on the computer with "Gorton Digital" and that's just terrible, I can't recommend it. The spacing/kerning is all wrong.
Hoping someone takes on the project of making a nice digital font, potentially a mono-spaced one too.
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#7> Of course you will see it, the same way you saw a lot of Arial in the 1990s, or Calibri today.
Well, that didn't last long; Aptos enters the chat.
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#8The site is killing my brave browser. Maybe long thin transoceanic paths, or phase of the moon. So many partially loaded images. But definitely worth the wait. A great read. I liked the almost mimetic quality of "which slightly broken font plate is being reused to make the broken "3" I keep seeing" which is a classic detective novel trope, e.g. Lord Peter Whimsey in "strong poison" and a typewriter glitch he recognis…
It is definitely a "Macbook Pro on a wooden table at a coffee shop, owner with tattoos and stylish facial hair" kind of website
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#9The site is killing my brave browser. Maybe long thin transoceanic paths, or phase of the moon. So many partially loaded images. But definitely worth the wait. A great read. I liked the almost mimetic quality of "which slightly broken font plate is being reused to make the broken "3" I keep seeing" which is a classic detective novel trope, e.g. Lord Peter Whimsey in "strong poison" and a typewriter glitch he recognis…
On Fennec on Android, no images appear to load at all. Edit: they do, it just takes ages. Could be the slow connection.
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Fonts are a side interest for a very large number of hackers. In fact this page has been submitted before and got 857 points and 122 comments.