Tomorrow, I am waking up before 6am and taking a channel train from Paris to Leicester (and back) to visit an archive and look at the 19th century files of a company whose work eventually led to Gorton the font.
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Tomorrow, I am waking up before 6am and taking a channel train from Paris to Leicester (and back) to visit an archive and look at the 19th century files of a company whose work eventually led to Gorton the font.
I have no idea how likely it is they will have *anything*! But I can take photos of whatever I find. I’m more than mildly excited.
Then, staying up all night and fretting about the U.S. election.
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They already cancelled my first Eurostar train today, but I rebooked to the next one, departing half an hour later. Hope there aren’t more unpleasant surprises.
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I am not a professional researcher, so I have no idea! I just know they have 48 files/folders.
If I find nothing related to the font, it’s still a fun train trip through one of the marvels of model engineering, right?
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Last time I did something like this, I spent a day at Stanford University, and found so many great things about the Laser Eraser (that you couldn’t find online), I ended up pretty much rewriting one of my book chapters at the last minute to reorient it around it. It’s one of the best chapters, I think.
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Walking the streets of sleepy, dark, almost empty Paris, with occasional smell of bread baking… probably cliche, but still very nice.
(Trying extra hard to find little pleasures in this trip in case this is all for nothing.)
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Eurostar to London went for 10 minutes and then stopped. “It’s a power issue. The driver is going to fix it.” They are serving breakfast but we are standing on a curve, so everything is lopsided. We’ve been waiting for 35 minutes now. The overhead screen says we’re traveling at 1 km/h, showing just the amount of integrity I’d expect out of a Soviet five-year plan during year five.
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Moving again. The driver inspected the pantographs and found no issue. My guess is that some alarm was tripped and they needed to check so we don’t get stopped in the middle of the tunnel.
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Last train boarded! The train is very hot inside… and so are these examples of Gorton and some pixel fonts I found while traversing St. Pancras Intl.
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@mwichary that's a nice pixel font
