[HN Gopher] The hardest working font in Manhattan
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       The hardest working font in Manhattan
        
       Author : robinhouston
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2025-02-14 21:45 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (aresluna.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (aresluna.org)
        
       | randomcatuser wrote:
       | I love how image-centric the blog layout is...
        
       | jen729w wrote:
       | You'll enjoy Marcin Wichary's work. He recently travelled
       | Australia and found instances of Gorton everywhere.
       | 
       | https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/111700218511462472
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       | https://shifthappens.site/
        
         | hampelm wrote:
         | Aresluna is Marcin :-)
        
       | somanyphotons wrote:
       | Where can we download this font?
        
         | larodi wrote:
         | i took this
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         | https://github.com/dakotafelder/open-gorton
        
       | 60654 wrote:
       | I'm afraid the author has it backwards. This style of writing
       | didn't start as a font from some company.
       | 
       | This is just how you used to be taught to do lettering in a
       | drafting class. The straight lines and simple shapes make it easy
       | to do lettering with pencil or a pen, which is also why all the
       | lines are the same width and all the line caps are rounded.
       | 
       | Later on these turned into stencils, which let users do lettering
       | quickly by tracing the pen inside the stencil - and then turned
       | into fonts for use in print. But all that came later. What we
       | have here is just lettering people learned in drafting classes,
       | and which was later used to make stencils and templates.
        
         | xnx wrote:
         | > The straight lines and simple shapes make it easy to do
         | lettering with pencil or a pe
         | 
         | I'm guessing these letters are also easy to create with a CNC
         | machine.
        
       | _air wrote:
       | Getting hugged:
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20250214221951/https://aresluna....
        
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