Sunset Gothic is open to licensing in both Standard (‘STD’) and Professional (‘PRO’) versions. Condensed and Expanded cuts will follow in early 2023. Sunset Gothic is available in seven weights - Hairline, Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, and Heavy - each with corresponding italics. Additional identifying features include curvature terminals that mimic brush-lift, and a handy stylistic set that provides angled sign-painters’ terminals to the type’s horizontal strokes. Drawn in seven weights - ranging from the wispily elegant Hairline to the wryly assertive Heavy - Sunset is typified by a modulated / flared vertical stroke that can be found across sign-painting outputs and in typeface precedents like Hermann Zapf’s Optima and Aldo Novarese’s Forma. Emulating this meeting point of gesture and legibility, Sunset is a dexterous, workhorse sans-serif masquerading as a sign-painter’s display type.ĭeveloped via observation and amalgamation since the designer’s arrival in Los Angeles in early 2016, Sunset Gothic is a subjective mélange of a multitude of unattributed sans-serif painting styles. This implicit condition leads organically to typography that contains compelling forms amidst hyperbolized, often over-scaled features. Typical of this mode of communication is the primary requirement to attract attention and the secondary need to maintain legibility for viewers inside of moving vehicles indeed, these letterform paintings are for car-drivers and -passengers first, and pedestrians thereafter. Across neighborhoods, the busy thoroughfare is lined and dotted with commercial endeavors new and old, many of whose proprietors announce their goods and services to automobile-bound passers-by with typography painted directly onto building facades and shopfront windows. Stretching from Figueroa Street and the Arroyo Seco Parkway near downtown Los Angeles and culminating at Highway 1 in the Pacific Palisades, the boulevard terminates in the West at the Pacific Ocean after meandering through Echo Park, Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Bel-Air, and Brentwood. It is an homage in part to John Baldessari (1931 – 2020) and his mostly-anonymous letterers (among them Norm Laich) to Ralph “Doc” Guthrie and the LATTC’s Sign Graphics programme (the last accredited degree of its kind in the US) and to the brush-rendered, vernacular approximations of vector-based letterforms which can be found up and down Sunset Boulevard, upon which Colophon Foundry’s L.A. It's similar to DSE Typewriter, but not exactly the same.Sunset Gothic is a painterly sans-serif rendered in the tradition of Los Angeles sign-painters. Can you not yet tell that I love old-timey fonts?Īn X Window System bitmap font I made decades ago. Implementation by Derek Higgs archived here.Īn old-timey typewriter font you can use for coding.
It’s the font you’ve seen on old aircraft instruments. Numerals and Letters, Aircraft Instrument Dial, Standard Form of.
#Gothic font iso
Italic and upright versions of the medium ISO 3098/1 (DIN 6776) font. One of the samples shows a schematic blueprint looking drawing that sells it very well.Ī rounded version of Proxima Nova, a Gotham lookalike. Based on Gorton engraving machine templates, providing some differences from the Leroy templates. Gorton Digital - drdnar’s implementation.Sublime - A slightly distressed font, to recall comic book lettering.Planscribe NF - A similarly clean font with tighter kerning.National Park - Based on engraved National Park signage.Punctuation block for common typographic symbols, and then some. Routed Gothic is now distributed under the terms of the SIL Open FontĮvery ASCII character, ISO Latin 1, much of Unicode’s General Intended to be printed at a sufficiently high resolution to obviate There are no hints, as I originally created this font for a project The “half italic” fonts of this typeface are slanted 11.25°, as seen The “italic” fonts of this typeface are literally slanted 22.5°, as a Early 1970s avionics diagram, based on an image stolen from this StackOverflow question, an answer to which mentions this font!
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