> 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.
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.
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.
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:// to dig further.
But maybe more often I'm just going to https://hn.algolia.com/ which almost always to take me somewhere else, less so to read a buncha chatter
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!
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].
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.
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.
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).
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[ 5.5 ms ] story [ 94.0 ms ] threadThis 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.
This is a classic example: 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:// to dig further.
But maybe more often I'm just going to https://hn.algolia.com/ which almost always to take me somewhere else, less so to read a buncha chatter
Well done.
Bethany is still active on instagram. Seems like she has moved on.
[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.
https://wholeearth.info/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa/Boogie_Mark_Series
Huh? European trappers from Canada and the US explored Utah? What now?