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behnamohyesterday at 8:40 PM3 repliesview on HN

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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amatechayesterday at 11:14 PM

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...

rjswyesterday at 9:36 PM

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

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

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watersbyesterday at 9:31 PM

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/

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