A personal site hosting typography projects, notably the Routed Gothic font based on drafting lettering, plus assorted small pages.
HN links it for the Routed Gothic font, which commenters compare to CNC router fonts and like for its look in all-caps.
Based on Reproducing Typewriter, a letterpress typeface from c. 1906 used to create fake typewritten letters for promotional material. Where other monospace typefaces replicated actual typewriters, Reproducing Typewriter had improvements for better readability at smaller point sizes and/or where poor quality reproduction was an issue.
I thought its features would make it the basis of a good coding font, too. Old Timey Mono is much closer to the original while Old Timey Code makes it an even better typeface for writing source code.
It was the coding font used in the Turbo Pascal 3.0 user manual. I've not seen it elsewhere except old patents' cover pages.
Enjoy and if you have any comments or questions, comment or enquire away.
https://github.com/dse/old-timey-mono-font
https://webonastick.com/fonts/old-timey-mono/
Reminds me of Old Timey [1] a lot.
What I really love about both of them is that they instantly give you the impression of a real print made with real ink. Especially Averia - which makes sense, since it was averaged from all sorts of different fonts - has a lot of, for the lack of better word, excess fat on it. Something that may happen accidently while pressing "precise" font letter on soft paper.
[1] https://webonastick.com/fonts/old-timey-mono/
>Everyone says it, but I don't think I've seen any solid arguments behind it
You haven't looked very hard then:
http://webonastick.com/php.html
http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2002/papers/html/php/index.html
https://maurus.net/resources/programming-languages/php/
>people will say some of the same things about Node.js or Rails that have been said about PHP for the last decade.
Really? Please tell me which of these things: http://webonastick.com/php.html applies to ruby. People have been complaining about javascript being shitty for just as long as javascript has existed.
You can get Marcin Wichary’s version from https://shifthappens.site/store/
Routed Gothic is a fairly good free version https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/
The national park typeface is another pantograph router style font https://nationalparktypeface.com/
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:
https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/unicode-coverage.html