The first font I found was Gortan Digital. It was a font I have been searching for for years, and finally (through the creation of this website!) found.

I originally was introduced to this font through its use as a label for large industrial control panels, like those in nuclear power plants or lock and dams. I just love its inherent antique appearance and history, having its hayday in postwar signage, technology, and of course labels, but also continued use into today without a nostolgia revival that would make its use almost a gimmick (I'm looking at you, VHS font).

It came with this very interesting writeup which I highly recommend a readthrough, if not for any reason more than to look at all the pretty pictures.

If you guys want to use this font (which I highly recommend!) it is free for personal use, or if you are a creative that would like to use it commercially, the licensing fee goes to a US-based educational non-profit which is chill as hell. Go to the GitHub if you are interesting in licensing or want the .ff & .sfd files, or I downloaded it at whatfontis.com, which gave me the actual font files that I am using now.

Ok I know I was just throwing a little shade about fonts that have had a nostolgia revival and feel like a gimmick but come on, Dymo labels are sick as hell and I will use them despite how gimmicky they may seem.

For either my birthday or christmas one year, I got a Dymo label maker (not the one pictured, thats my grandparents old one) which I use all the time. Most of my electronics got my name and number on there in dymo labels, if you look around my room there will just be random things labeled, for a while there my phone was just labeled "phone" which I though was a little silly. So when it comes to making my website, why not bring the labeling here too!

There are loads of Dymo fonts online, many of them not free, and the one I chose is called Impact Label on DaFont, its free for personal use and only requests a one-time donation to the authors paypal for commercial use. That is from 14 years ago, so I would check and make sure its still active before sending any money though. Something I like about this one is that it has an inverse version, which is the one I am actually using on this site - it allows for those nice long red dividers I'm using.