That article is a work of art!

Very long, but crazy well made presentation of the topic. Facinating.

Holy rabbit hole, Batman! Very interesting article if you’re a typography geek.

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

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

I just downloaded and tried it. It’s beautiful. Brings back so many memories.

This was an awesome read!

Fascinating :)