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!
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.
Sometimes you're leaving reddit as quickly as you visited, knowing you found the sorta thread you want, and ctrl-f'ing all of the https:// to dig further.
But maybe more often I'm just going to https://hn.algolia.com/ which almost always to take me somewhere else, less so to read a buncha chatter
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.
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].
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.
> 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.
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.
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).
