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Windsor Typeface (2018)

133 points by JadoJodo 3y ago

bondarchuk 3y ago
The thinking man's Cooper Black. Always like to see it in the wild.
jdelman 3y ago
Not a single mention of Woody Allen?
- cormullion 3y ago
  > 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.
  - jdelman 3y ago
    Somehow I missed that. I get why you wouldn't want to do that, but IMHO they're inseparable. You couldn't possibly use it in movie titles or marketing without evoking him.
tobr 3y ago
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 3y ago
  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 3y ago
    You were looking for good, well-informed writing on a topic, and went to Reddit? That’s, uh, optimistic.
    - grimgrin 3y ago
      That is _exactly_ why people still search reddit. This is a classic example: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=font+review+websites+reddit https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=font+review+websites+r... Sometimes you're leaving reddit as quickly as you visited, knowing you found the sorta thread you want, and ctrl-f'ing all of the https:// https:// to dig further. But maybe more often I'm just going to https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/ which almost always to take me somewhere else, less so to read a buncha chatter
- Affric 3y ago
  > minuscule detail Well done. Bethany is still active on instagram. Seems like she has moved on.
DrBazza 3y ago
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) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goodies_(TV_series)
frankfrank13 3y ago
funny how much this font reads as 2015 rather than 1905
0xRusty 3y ago
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 3y ago
I wish the site offered a RSS feed and/or Fediverse account. Great content.
- skipnup 3y ago
  https://fontreviewjournal.com/feed/ https://fontreviewjournal.com/feed/ ?
  - preya2k 3y ago
    Thanks! Couldn't find it in the sites metadata.
kjs3 3y ago
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 http://elisabethmcnair.com [2] http://beetlecatatl.com 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 3y ago
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 3y ago
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://wholeearth.info/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa/Boogie_Mark_Series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa/Boogie_Mark_Series
Solvency 3y ago
"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 3y ago
  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 3y ago
The uneven weighting makes this font very ugly in my opinion.
gatane 3y ago
Any free alternatives?
- klint 3y ago
  Fraunces is lovely, free and open source, and available on Google Fonts.
- deleted 3y ago
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133 points by JadoJodo 3y ago

bondarchuk 3y ago

The thinking man's Cooper Black. Always like to see it in the wild.

jdelman 3y ago

Not a single mention of Woody Allen?

cormullion 3y ago
> 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.
- jdelman 3y ago
  Somehow I missed that. I get why you wouldn't want to do that, but IMHO they're inseparable. You couldn't possibly use it in movie titles or marketing without evoking him.

tobr 3y ago

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 3y ago
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 3y ago
  You were looking for good, well-informed writing on a topic, and went to Reddit? That’s, uh, optimistic.
  - grimgrin 3y ago
    That is _exactly_ why people still search reddit. This is a classic example: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=font+review+websites+reddit https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=font+review+websites+r... Sometimes you're leaving reddit as quickly as you visited, knowing you found the sorta thread you want, and ctrl-f'ing all of the https:// https:// to dig further. But maybe more often I'm just going to https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/ which almost always to take me somewhere else, less so to read a buncha chatter
Affric 3y ago
> minuscule detail Well done. Bethany is still active on instagram. Seems like she has moved on.

DrBazza 3y ago

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) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goodies_(TV_series)

frankfrank13 3y ago

funny how much this font reads as 2015 rather than 1905

0xRusty 3y ago

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 3y ago

I wish the site offered a RSS feed and/or Fediverse account. Great content.

skipnup 3y ago
https://fontreviewjournal.com/feed/ https://fontreviewjournal.com/feed/ ?
- preya2k 3y ago
  Thanks! Couldn't find it in the sites metadata.

kjs3 3y ago

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 http://elisabethmcnair.com [2] http://beetlecatatl.com 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 3y ago

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 3y ago

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://wholeearth.info/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa/Boogie_Mark_Series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa/Boogie_Mark_Series

Solvency 3y ago

"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 3y ago
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 3y ago

The uneven weighting makes this font very ugly in my opinion.

gatane 3y ago

Any free alternatives?

klint 3y ago
Fraunces is lovely, free and open source, and available on Google Fonts.
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