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Col­lect­ed match­box labels from a col­lec­tion of 5,000 in the design archive.

Gor­tonDig­i­tal is a dig­i­tal revival of the Gor­ton type­face, a 20^th-cen­tu­ry inter­war font orig­i­nal­ly used by the George Gor­ton Machine Com­pa­ny for engrav­ing machines. The repos­i­to­ry con­tains tem­plate splines and tools to gen­er­ate mul­ti­ple font weights (light, nor­mal, medi­um, bold) using Font­Forge’s stroke expan­sion. Free for non-com­mer­cial use; com­mer­cial licens­ing requires a dona­tion to a US-based edu­ca­tion­al non-prof­it.

NETRon­line’s His­toric Aeri­als is the largest online data­base of U.S. his­tor­i­cal aer­i­al imagery dat­ing back to the 1920s. Users can explore an inter­ac­tive map view­er to see how loca­tions have changed over time, with orthorec­ti­fied imagery avail­able for down­load in mul­ti­ple for­mats or as phys­i­cal prints. Sub­scrip­tions offer addi­tion­al fea­tures like ad-free view­ing, anno­ta­tion tools, and access to Geo­T­IFFs for pro­fes­sion­al use.

A les­son sched­ule fea­tur­ing his­tor­i­cal fig­ures (US Pres­i­dents & First Ladies) and the promi­nent indi­vid­u­als who stud­ied them. Orga­nized by week.

Uncan­ni­ly and cre­ative­ly envi­sioned, you did­n’t just walk into a Time Out ‑you were pulled in by feel­ings that you were rid­ing a sen­su­al con­vey­or belt, instant­ly enveloped by low-light shad­ows, mul­ti­col­ored walls and ceil­ings that gave you the sen­sa­tion that your sen­so­ry per­cep­tions were slight­ly askew. It was like you were high on elec­tron­ic…

Ares­lu­na doc­u­ments the dis­cov­ery and analy­sis of Gor­ton, an obscure geo­met­ric sans-serif font ubiq­ui­tous on vin­tage com­put­er key­boards and through­out New York City. The author traces the font’s quirky char­ac­ter­is­tics, mys­te­ri­ous ori­gins, and unex­pect­ed appear­ances across urban sig­nage and design, reveal­ing a hid­den typo­graph­ic his­to­ry.

The Inter­net Archive is now home to 53 episodes of The Famous Com­put­er Café, a 1980s radio show about the new world of home com­put­ers.