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Side note: I love the imperfect fonts and old school design of the website. For years I've been looking for ways to re-create old book style text and graphs in

Side note: I love the imperfect fonts and old school design of the website. For years I've been looking for ways to re-create old book style text and graphs in the digital era. This gets so close to that vision.

watersb 9mo ago
I generally like it, too, but on my iPhone that very first sentence puts a spotlight in the lack of an 'fl' ligature in the word, "influence". Now I'm reconsidering my resolve to look for AI slop - my enthusiasm for topography is getting in the way. https://wondermark.com/c/650/ https://wondermark.com/c/650/
- TacticalCoder 9mo ago
  > my enthusiasm for topography funny topo you made! I've written and typeset books. It's not so much that there's no "fl" ligature: it's that with that font the lack of a "fl" ligature really makes it bad looking. With many other fonts it wouldn't be anywhere near that bad (and I'm not just only about monospace).
rjsw 9mo ago
You might be interested in the resources [1] on the H.P.Lovecraft Historical Society website. [1] https://www.hplhs.org/resources.php#fonts https://www.hplhs.org/resources.php#fonts
- Levitating 9mo ago
  Oh thats great. I also use the wallpaper on https://hplovecraft.com/ https://hplovecraft.com/ as my actual wallpaper.
- imiric 9mo ago
  These are great, but the effect breaks down with digital fonts since every glyph instance is the same. There would have to be slight variations of each, and other imperfections caused by a typewriter or printing process. I'm not sure I like the effect of the font in the article. The subtle vertical position differences and inconsistent kerning are distracting. Typewriters and physical printing are not sloppy in that sense.
  - dandellion 9mo ago
    I've seen "handwritten" fonts in the past that used ligatures to have three or four variations of each letter, which makes it a lot less obvious.
amatecha 9mo ago
Quickly checked the CSS and the font appears to be "Volume Tc" and "Volume Tc Sans" by Tom Chalky: https://tomchalky.com/product/volume-handcrafted-trio-font-family/ https://tomchalky.com/product/volume-handcrafted-trio-font-f...
clickety_clack 9mo ago
I’ve been looking for a good serif font for my own website. This one is gorgeous.

watersb 9mo ago

I generally like it, too, but on my iPhone that very first sentence puts a spotlight in the lack of an 'fl' ligature in the word, "influence". Now I'm reconsidering my resolve to look for AI slop - my enthusiasm for topography is getting in the way. https://wondermark.com/c/650/ https://wondermark.com/c/650/

TacticalCoder 9mo ago
> my enthusiasm for topography funny topo you made! I've written and typeset books. It's not so much that there's no "fl" ligature: it's that with that font the lack of a "fl" ligature really makes it bad looking. With many other fonts it wouldn't be anywhere near that bad (and I'm not just only about monospace).

rjsw 9mo ago

You might be interested in the resources [1] on the H.P.Lovecraft Historical Society website. [1] https://www.hplhs.org/resources.php#fonts https://www.hplhs.org/resources.php#fonts

Levitating 9mo ago
Oh thats great. I also use the wallpaper on https://hplovecraft.com/ https://hplovecraft.com/ as my actual wallpaper.
imiric 9mo ago
These are great, but the effect breaks down with digital fonts since every glyph instance is the same. There would have to be slight variations of each, and other imperfections caused by a typewriter or printing process. I'm not sure I like the effect of the font in the article. The subtle vertical position differences and inconsistent kerning are distracting. Typewriters and physical printing are not sloppy in that sense.
- dandellion 9mo ago
  I've seen "handwritten" fonts in the past that used ligatures to have three or four variations of each letter, which makes it a lot less obvious.

amatecha 9mo ago

Quickly checked the CSS and the font appears to be "Volume Tc" and "Volume Tc Sans" by Tom Chalky: https://tomchalky.com/product/volume-handcrafted-trio-font-family/ https://tomchalky.com/product/volume-handcrafted-trio-font-f...

clickety_clack 9mo ago

I’ve been looking for a good serif font for my own website. This one is gorgeous.