I'm making a book! (Part 3)
I’m still working on A Machine to Share Dreams! I’m about half way through which means I’ve reached the point where I lose all perspective and start doubting myself.
The important thing is that I have landed on a font. Last year I stumbled across an amazing and wildly detailed article by Marcin Wichary called The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan. The font in question is Gorton. Made over 120 years ago for engraving machines, it is oddly imperfect and child like. Marcin says it best:
More than most other fonts, Gorton feels it’s been made by machines for machines – but in its use, it’s also the font that allows you to see so many human mistakes and imperfections. The font and its siblings just show up on the job site without pretense, without ego, without wasting time on introductions. Gorton doesn’t aspire to be admired, celebrated, treasured; it’s meant to do some hard work and never take credit for it.
What could be better for a book about a robot navigating parenthood?
Even better, Dan Cederholm has a beautiful version of the font over at SimpleBits. Here is my hand drawn version of the font in action on the book cover:
Here’s some additional page detail views:
