Hypsometry has a new design, inspired by the private press movement and its humanist reaction to the industrialization of printing in the nineteenth century.

This design, like my recent work on Hypsography, makes use of Sorts Mill Goudy, Barry Schwartz’s excellent revival of Frederic Goudy’s classic typeface Goudy Old Style. For its titling, it features CastleType’s typeface Goudy Trajan, which is a digital revival of Goudy’s translation of the Roman majuscules found on Trajan’s Column. (Yes, a double revival.)

The layout is built on a simple grid. (Too simple, really, and insufficiently humanist, at this point.) I’ve used, and included, Analog Coop’s #grid script, which means that you can type g and see the grid; type g + h and have the grid stay visible; or type g + f to have the grid displayed on top of the site’s content.

Again following in the traditions of the private presses, Hypsometry now has a printer’s mark, with which I’ve stamped the pages.

More is coming, and I have more to say about all this; but for now, this suffices.