Now Boarding: The Story of Airport

I didn&#x27;t read the story (too long), but I really love the site design. It&#x27;s beautiful and clean without being boring, with great use of typography (of course) and the grid and whitespace. Responsive too, and doesn&#x27;t hijack your scrolling like so many animated sites do.<p>Hope they make more pages like that.

For anyone curious about the clock design:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;airport.revolvertype.com&#x2F;img&#x2F;620px_clock.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;airport.revolvertype.com&#x2F;img&#x2F;620px_clock.gif</a><p>It seems to be inspired by Swiss rail clocks:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Swiss_railway_clock" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Swiss_railway_clock</a><p>You can purchase clocks and watches in the style:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mondaine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mondaine</a>

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.

If this GIF (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;airport.revolvertype.com&#x2F;img&#x2F;typewriter_airports.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;airport.revolvertype.com&#x2F;img&#x2F;typewriter_airports.gif</a>) 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).

Am I the only one who don&#x27;t understand these desktop (per-user), webfonts (per-view), apps and ebook licensing models?<p>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&#x2F;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?<p>For a start, a webfont is not different from a desktop font. It is a font and that&#x27;s it.<p>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.