[HN Gopher] Routed Gothic Font
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       Routed Gothic Font
        
       Author : Rendello
       Score  : 82 points
       Date   : 2024-08-31 22:42 UTC (4 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (webonastick.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (webonastick.com)
        
       | Rendello wrote:
       | It looks best in all-caps, since that's what the diagrams that
       | used the lettering sets used. You can get a good sense of how it
       | looks with the Unicode table:
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       | https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/unicode-coverage...
        
       | slater wrote:
       | (dupe)
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30190397
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22399161
        
         | Rendello wrote:
         | Previously discussed, but not really a duplicate by HN
         | standards since the last post was over two years ago:
         | 
         | > If a story has not had significant attention in the last year
         | or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury
         | reposts as duplicates.
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
        
       | ForOldHack wrote:
       | Always a sucker for a new font, but this one is great. New
       | Programming/CLI font. Thanks
        
         | filmor wrote:
         | 1Il (one, upper case i, lower case L) all seem to look alike in
         | this font. For me, that disqualifies it as a coding font.
        
       | soggypretzels wrote:
       | See also nationalparktypeface.com which has a similar asthetic
       | and motivation.
        
         | sdoering wrote:
         | And is being linked to and referenced on the page.
        
         | pcwalton wrote:
         | I wonder who originally authored the font, and when it was
         | created. The site cites Leroy Lettering as the likely origin,
         | so presumably it was someone there?
        
       | sdoering wrote:
       | I like those typefaces where people try to
       | recreate/transpose/keep alive a quite physical impression into
       | the digital realm.
       | 
       | I always think fondly about the font Brian [1] by Jon Hicks
       | recreating his late father's (I think architectural) writing.
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       | [1]: https://hicks.design/shop/bryan
        
         | card_zero wrote:
         | Oh that's nice! I like to use handwriting fonts for coding, I
         | might try this one.
        
         | afandian wrote:
         | The Dijkstra one is fun.
         | https://rrt.sc3d.org/Design/Font/Dijkstra/
        
       | object-a wrote:
       | Comic Sans (non-derogatory) for engineers
        
         | seabombs wrote:
         | "Formal Comic Sans" was my first thought too!
        
       | atoav wrote:
       | Feels ever so slightly too bold to me, but maybe that is just my
       | personal taste..
       | 
       | Other than that it is great to live in a time where people go to
       | old typography and try to preserve our draw inspiration from it.
        
       | hlandau wrote:
       | Very nice!
       | 
       | Not free, but the "Technic", "Simplex" and "ISOCP" fonts included
       | with AutoCAD are also of this aesthetic, if people want an
       | exhaustive list of candidates.
        
         | alanbernstein wrote:
         | For single-stroke (AKA "routed") fonts of various aesthetics,
         | look up SHX font files. I'm not sure what the license status
         | is, but they're easy to find online. I use them for laser
         | cutting.
        
         | masspro wrote:
         | I've tried to find "the autocad font" so many times before.
         | Thank you!
        
       | elevaet wrote:
       | This reminds me of the font Roland used on their 80s synth
       | service manual schematics. Maybe it's the same?
        
       | ivanjermakov wrote:
       | I liked another font linked on this page even more:
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       | National Park Typeface: https://nationalparktypeface.com/
       | 
       | And the website is really nice
        
       | einpoklum wrote:
       | In what sense is this font "Gothic"?
       | 
       | There are Gothic people, there's the Gothic language and the
       | Gothic alphabet...
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_alphabet
       | 
       | ... but that doesn't sound relevant.
        
         | maxerickson wrote:
         | It's not serif.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif
        
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