Windsor Typeface (2018)

https://fontreviewjournal.com/windsor/

by JadoJodo • 2 years ago

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bondarchuk• 2 years ago

The thinking man's Cooper Black. Always like to see it in the wild.

jdelman2• 2 years ago

Not a single mention of Woody Allen?

cormullion• 2 years ago

If you’re wondering why there’s a certain genre of notable in-use of Windsor that’s missing from this review, it isn’t due to oversight—it’s quite intentional.

jdelman2• 2 years ago

Somehow I missed that. I get why you wouldn't want to do that, but IMHO they're inseparable. You couldn't possibly use it in movie titles or marketing without evoking him.

tobr• 2 years ago

What happened to Font Review Journal? For a while it was my go-to place for flowery language about minuscule details in letter shapes. Looks like it hasn’t seen an update since before the pandemic. I know at some point Bethany Heck was working on a book version of it, but I can’t find any information about it actually being published.

LanternLight83• 2 years ago

I developed strong opinions about fonts recently, and went to /r/typography looking for exactly this sort of material -- found it lacking :c

This is a treasure, I know there are a few "Little Big Things"-esque font-focused blogs, and my next hope will be traditional forums like high-logic.

acheron• 2 years ago

You were looking for good, well-informed writing on a topic, and went to Reddit? That’s, uh, optimistic.

Affric• 2 years ago

minuscule detail

Well done.

Bethany is still active on instagram. Seems like she has moved on.

DrBazza• 2 years ago

Designed in 1905, but very much reminds me of the 'Bellbottom' font that was popular in the 70s - for my generation, most familiar in The Goodies tv series - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goodies_(TV_series)

frankfrank13• 2 years ago

funny how much this font reads as 2015 rather than 1905

0xRusty• 2 years ago

I don't know much about fonts and typography but just want to acknowledge the huge amount of work that goes into putting together an article like this on something relatively obscure. Enjoyable read!

preya2k2• 2 years ago

I wish the site offered a RSS feed and/or Fediverse account. Great content.

skipnup• 2 years ago

https://fontreviewjournal.com/feed/ ?

preya2k2• 2 years ago

Thanks! Couldn't find it in the sites metadata.

kjs3• 2 years ago

Small world...the Elizabeth McNair pix on the page[1] is the logo to one of my more favorite restaurants[2]. I bought a tee shirt of it for my kid...it's pretty cute. You don't think about the people who produce those things and how talented they are[3].

[1] http://elisabethmcnair.com [2] http://beetlecatatl.com [3] Of course, it's now fashionable to dismiss them since it's cheaper to just grind them up and feed them to AI.

zoogeny• 2 years ago

It is a lovely font but those angled o's and sloped n,m,h in the lower case are too distracting for me personally. I can imagine it being popular as slightly more professional looking Cooper Black (as discussed a few times in the article), especially if one sticks to upper case.

scelerat• 2 years ago

I'm most familiar with Windsor from the Whole Earth Catalog and the Mesa Boogie (specifically "Boogie") guitar amplifier logotype. Was very popular in the late '60s - early '70s, it seems.

https://wholeearth.info/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa/Boogie_Mark_Series

Solvency• 2 years ago

"European trappers and fur traders explored some areas of Utah in the early 19th century from Canada and the United States."

Huh? European trappers from Canada and the US explored Utah? What now?

AnimalMuppet• 2 years ago

Look up Etienne Provost, Peter Skene Ogden, and Jim Bridger. European (ancestry) trappers from Canada and (the then-existing) US explored (parts of what is now) Utah (at least as far as European knowledge of it goes).

pdntspa• 2 years ago

The uneven weighting makes this font very ugly in my opinion.

gatane• 2 years ago

Any free alternatives?

klint• 2 years ago

Fraunces is lovely, free and open source, and available on Google Fonts.

Windsor Typeface (2018)

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