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.

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rjsw 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You might be interested in the resources [1] on the H.P.Lovecraft Historical Society website.

[1] https://www.hplhs.org/resources.php#fonts

	▲	Levitating 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Oh thats great. I also use the wallpaper on https://hplovecraft.com/ as my actual wallpaper.
	▲	imiric 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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.

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amatecha 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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-f...

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watersb 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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/

	▲	TacticalCoder 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> 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).