Over at Hypsography my work is continuing apace, and that pace is increasing. I’m continuing my explorations of humane typography there. The site is now set in Sorts Mill Goudy, an excellent revival of Frederic Goudy’s incomparable Goudy Old Style.

If you view the site using a recent version of Firefox, you’ll even see that the f and i of field are joined into one ligature – as they should be. Firefox is currently the only browser that supports serious OpenType typographic enhancements. Where by serious I mean kerning and ligatures. Yes, 460 years have passed since Gutenberg began printing with moveable type, and we are just now returning to those basic capabilities.

At any rate, Sorts Mill Goudy is a beautifully rendered typeface. Barry Schwartz is its author, and he has made it available under both the Open Font License and the MIT License: OFL Sorts Mill Goudy and MIT Sorts Mill Goudy. You can also find it in the Typedia, along with another excellent, though less completely realized, Goudy revival by Mr Schwartz: Goudy Bookletter 1911.

I used the Font Squirrel’s @font-face generator to prepare the files for Hypsography, and I highly recommend it. To make the process even simpler, the Font Squirrel already has OFL Sorts Mill Goudy in its archive, along with a pre-generated @font-face kit. Or, if you prefer, both Kernest and Typekit also include Mr Schwartz’s Goudy revival.

From the information available on the project site, Sorts Mill Goudy appears to be a work in progress. Nonetheless, it seems quite ready for use right now. Using Tim Brown’s web font specimen, I’ve put up a demonstration page for Sorts Mill Goudy on Hypsography, for your further inspection.

To return to my initial point: Hypsography has a new look, a new section for news and other ephemera, and a newly added tetraptych. Enjoy.