Now Boarding: The Story of Airport

by epaga on 12/7/2024, 10:48:52 AM with 22 comments

  • by solardev on 12/10/2024, 9:51:55 AM

    I didn't read the story (too long), but I really love the site design. It's beautiful and clean without being boring, with great use of typography (of course) and the grid and whitespace. Responsive too, and doesn't hijack your scrolling like so many animated sites do.

    Hope they make more pages like that.

  • by throw0101b on 12/10/2024, 2:04:16 PM

    For anyone curious about the clock design:

    * https://airport.revolvertype.com/img/620px_clock.gif

    It seems to be inspired by Swiss rail clocks:

    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock

    You can purchase clocks and watches in the style:

    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondaine

  • by hinnisdael on 12/10/2024, 10:28:18 AM

    What a great font! Very matter-of-fact, but with some stylistic choices that give it just enough character to be interesting. The x-height in the original version is too large for setting body copy, but the variable font comes with an axis for the optical size, which allows tweaking the x-height individually.

  • by rob74 on 12/10/2024, 9:18:05 AM

    If this GIF (https://airport.revolvertype.com/img/typewriter_airports.gif) is supposed to emulate the good old split-flap displays, then it kind of misses the point - on those displays, the letters changed individually, so the font would need to be fixed width (and uppercase).

  • by prmoustache on 12/10/2024, 11:13:30 AM

    Am I the only one who don't understand these desktop (per-user), webfonts (per-view), apps and ebook licensing models?

    This is just too convoluted and complicated. What does desktop per-user even mean? Am I allowed to use the font and use it to produce a document if I pay for a 1-5 users license ? or do I have to pay more if that document ends up in the hand of more than 10 users? What if that document end up being a pdf that people might share all over the world? Have I right to use/reference it but not to embed it? What about views? If my blog get 4000 views on a regular basis but a post end up viral and views explode to hundreds of thousands? Am I suddenly in debt with the font creator?

    For a start, a webfont is not different from a desktop font. It is a font and that's it.

    Just put one single license at 1000usd for the individual one and 4000usd for the pack if you value your font that much for f... sakes.