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.
I always think fondly about the font Brian [1] by Jon Hicks recreating his late father’s (I think architectural) writing.
It fits with my theory about why APL's glyphs look "better" to me than newer unicode-based symbol languages like (BQN, Uiua, etc). I think it's because APL's symbols were developed to be hand-written on chalkboards. Those constraints are much more severe compared to a purely computer-based font.