The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)

It's a pretty font and gives that instant retro look on keyboards for example.

I've tried it on the computer with "Gorton Digital" and that's just terrible, I can't recommend it. The spacing/kerning is all wrong.

Hoping someone takes on the project of making a nice digital font, potentially a mono-spaced one too.

The site is killing my brave browser. Maybe long thin transoceanic paths, or phase of the moon.

So many partially loaded images.

But definitely worth the wait. A great read. I liked the almost mimetic quality of "which slightly broken font plate is being reused to make the broken "3" I keep seeing" which is a classic detective novel trope, e.g. Lord Peter Whimsey in "strong poison" and a typewriter glitch he recognises.

Some past comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053419

Cool to flip through their master copy typeface reference: https://archive.org/details/gorton-master-copy-type-for-all-...

> Of course you will see it, the same way you saw a lot of Arial in the 1990s, or Calibri today.

Well, that didn't last long; Aptos enters the chat.

> There was a goofy wavy hook sticking out of Q. P and R were often too wide. & and @ symbols would be laughed away in a type crit, and the endings of C felt like grabbing something next to it – a beginning of a ligature that never came.

No one gives a shit about this.