The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)

(aresluna.org)

74 points | by dcminter 5 days ago

6 comments

  • keyle 27 minutes ago
    It'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.

  • ggm 1 hour ago
    The 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.

    • gpvos 2 minutes ago
      On Fennec on Android, no images appear to load at all.
    • ReactiveJelly 9 minutes ago
      It is definitely a "Macbook Pro on a wooden table at a coffee shop, owner with tattoos and stylish facial hair" kind of website
      • ggm 0 minutes ago
        Yea, but if I bought coffee table books and this was printed by Taschen, I'd buy it.
  • brudgers 4 days ago
  • babelfish 1 hour ago
    Cool to flip through their master copy typeface reference: https://archive.org/details/gorton-master-copy-type-for-all-...
  • jason_s 13 minutes ago
    > 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.

  • mvdtnz 19 minutes ago
    > There was a goofy wavy hook sticking out of Q. P and R were often too wide. & and @ symbols would be laughed away in a type crit, and the endings of C felt like grabbing something next to it – a beginning of a ligature that never came.

    No one gives a shit about this.

    • gpvos 0 minutes ago
      Fonts are a side interest for a very large number of hackers.