[HN Gopher] Windsor Typeface (2018)
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Windsor Typeface (2018)
Author : JadoJodo
Score : 88 points
Date : 2024-02-25 20:18 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (fontreviewjournal.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (fontreviewjournal.com)
| bondarchuk wrote:
| The thinking man's Cooper Black. Always like to see it in the
| wild.
| jdelman wrote:
| Not a single mention of Woody Allen?
| cormullion wrote:
| > If you're wondering why there's a certain genre of notable
| in-use of Windsor that's missing from this review, it isn't due
| to oversight--it's quite intentional.
| tobr wrote:
| What happened to Font Review Journal? For a while it was my go-to
| place for flowery language about minuscule details in letter
| shapes. Looks like it hasn't seen an update since before the
| pandemic. I know at some point Bethany Heck was working on a book
| version of it, but I can't find any information about it actually
| being published.
| LanternLight83 wrote:
| I developed strong opinions about fonts recently, and went to
| /r/typography looking for exactly this sort of material --
| found it lacking :c
|
| This is a treasure, I know there are a few "Little Big
| Things"-esque font-focused blogs, and my next hope will be
| traditional forums like high-logic.
| acheron wrote:
| You were looking for good, well-informed writing on a topic,
| and went to Reddit? That's, uh, optimistic.
| Affric wrote:
| > minuscule detail
|
| Well done.
|
| Bethany is still active on instagram. Seems like she has moved
| on.
| DrBazza wrote:
| Designed in 1905, but very much reminds me of the 'Bellbottom'
| font that was popular in the 70s - for my generation, most
| familiar in The Goodies tv series -
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goodies_(TV_series)
| frankfrank13 wrote:
| funny how much this font reads as 2015 rather than 1905
| 0xRusty wrote:
| I don't know much about fonts and typography but just want to
| acknowledge the huge amount of work that goes into putting
| together an article like this on something relatively obscure.
| Enjoyable read!
| preya2k wrote:
| I wish the site offered a RSS feed and/or Fediverse account.
| Great content.
| skipnup wrote:
| https://fontreviewjournal.com/feed/ ?
| kjs3 wrote:
| Small world...the Elizabeth McNair pix on the page[1] is the logo
| to one of my more favorite restaurants[2]. I bought a tee shirt
| of it for my kid...it's pretty cute. You don't think about the
| people who produce those things and how talented they are[3].
|
| [1] http://elisabethmcnair.com [2] http://beetlecatatl.com [3] Of
| course, it's now fashionable to dismiss them since it's cheaper
| to just grind them up and feed them to AI.
| zoogeny wrote:
| It is a lovely font but those angled o's and sloped n,m,h in the
| lower case are too distracting for me personally. I can imagine
| it being popular as slightly more professional looking Cooper
| Black (as discussed a few times in the article), especially if
| one sticks to upper case.
| scelerat wrote:
| I'm most familiar with Windsor from the Whole Earth Catalog and
| the Mesa Boogie (specifically "Boogie") guitar amplifier
| logotype. Was very popular in the late '60s - early '70s, it
| seems.
|
| https://wholeearth.info/
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa/Boogie_Mark_Series
| Solvency wrote:
| "European trappers and fur traders explored some areas of Utah in
| the early 19th century from Canada and the United States."
|
| Huh? European trappers from Canada and the US explored Utah? What
| now?
| AnimalMuppet wrote:
| Look up Etienne Provost, Peter Skene Ogden, and Jim Bridger.
| European (ancestry) trappers from Canada and (the then-
| existing) US explored (parts of what is now) Utah (at least as
| far as European knowledge of it goes).
| pdntspa wrote:
| The uneven weighting makes this font very ugly in my opinion.
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