Something I love is how typefaces are often designed to replicate certain line shapes that are innate facets of making certain kinds of strokes with certain kinds of writing implements. It is a beautiful reminder, I think, of how even mechanized systems are still ultimately the work of Human hands.
Today we have text that is simply stored as electronic binary patterns, yet some part of that text, when displayed, is still replicating someone writing with a quill or a brush or a chisel. We may be writing with lightning now, but our texts and their shapes have been forged over millennia through countless inventions and dreams.













