Routed Gothic Font
https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/- I like those typefaces where people try to recreate/transpose/keep alive a quite physical impression into the digital realm.
I always think fondly about the font Brian [1] by Jon Hicks recreating his late father’s (I think architectural) writing.
[1]: https://hicks.design/shop/bryan
-- sdoering Reply - The Dijkstra one is fun. https://rrt.sc3d.org/Design/Font/Dijkstra/
-- afandian Reply - I liked another font linked on this page even more:
National Park Typeface: https://nationalparktypeface.com/
And the website is really nice
-- ivanjermakov Reply - I watched the animation of the a and now I can't unsee the fact that the adjustments stop it looking like it was routed.
-- rawling Reply - Quite nice. Similar to B612.
> B612 is an highly legible open source font family designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens.
[1] https://b612-font.com/
-- arh68 Reply - I used one of the linked fonts (Gorton digital) back when I was doing business cards for myself. That run of cards taught me two very important lessons:
* Always print a 1:1 bordered in black version of a design
* No matter how hard you try, you will notice some flaw in your design when you have already sent off an order for 100 of them.
-- indrora Reply - Very nice!
Not free, but the "Technic", "Simplex" and "ISOCP" fonts included with AutoCAD are also of this aesthetic, if people want an exhaustive list of candidates.
-- hlandau Reply - For single-stroke (AKA "routed") fonts of various aesthetics, look up SHX font files. I'm not sure what the license status is, but they're easy to find online. I use them for laser cutting.
-- alanbernstein Reply - I’ve tried to find “the autocad font” so many times before. Thank you!
-- masspro Reply - 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...
-- Rendello Reply - Thank you for this, it's brilliant! I have spent days drawing the wiring diagram for a modified 1961 MG MGA using LucidChart. The fonts available just didn't look great. I uploaded Routed Gothic and now it looks very natural and original. Great work on the font!
-- paulstovell Reply - Feels ever so slightly too bold to me, but maybe that is just my personal taste..
Other than that it is great to live in a time where people go to old typography and try to preserve our draw inspiration from it.
-- atoav Reply - This reminds me of the font Roland used on their 80s synth service manual schematics. Maybe it's the same?
-- elevaet Reply - Comic Sans (non-derogatory) for engineers
-- object-a Reply - "Formal Comic Sans" was my first thought too!
-- seabombs Reply - Always a sucker for a new font, but this one is great.
New Programming/CLI font. Thanks
-- ForOldHack Reply - 1Il (one, upper case i, lower case L) all seem to look alike in this font. For me, that disqualifies it as a coding font.
-- filmor Reply - See also nationalparktypeface.com which has a similar asthetic and motivation.
-- soggypretzels Reply - And is being linked to and referenced on the page.
-- sdoering Reply - I wonder who originally authored the font, and when it was created. The site cites Leroy Lettering as the likely origin, so presumably it was someone there?
-- pcwalton Reply - In what sense is this font "Gothic"?
There are Gothic people, there's the Gothic language and the Gothic alphabet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_alphabet
... but that doesn't sound relevant.
-- einpoklum Reply - It's not serif.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif
-- maxerickson Reply - (dupe)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30190397
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22399161
-- slater Reply - Previously discussed, but not really a duplicate by HN standards since the last post was over two years ago:
> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
-- Rendello Reply