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title: The hardest working font in Manhattan
date: 2025-02-19T15:52:09Z
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  - Typography
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This is wonderful. A font older than Akzidenz-Grotesk, and its ubiquity across much of the world carved into metal.

> Gorton has dimensionality that most fonts cannot ever enjoy: A routing tip picked in the 1980s and sun coming in from just the right angle forty years later can create a moment that thousands of letterpress cards could only dream of.

[https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan](https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan)