Drew Ink The year

Spine

The central curve of the letter S, and the one stroke that shows a face's stress most plainly.

Spine: a letter in the house face with the spine marked in vermilion.
Spine, drawn, Drew Ink. Drawn 2026-09-10.
Spine: a letter in Drew Slab Regular with the spine marked in vermilion.
Spine, drawn, in Drew Slab Regular, Drew Ink. Drawn 2026-09-29.

Near it

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What it is made of

what it isthe central curve of an S, and the stroke the whole letter is built around
measured from the sourcethe S is ONE stroke on 21 of the 23 families: a single unbroken path from its top terminal to its bottom one, with no joint in it. Drew Gazette and Drew Slab draw it in three, the extra two being their serifsread from the shelf's own stroke data rather than measured off its ink. One stroke is what makes it a spine rather than two arcs meeting: there is nothing in the middle of it to meet. This row said "all 23" until the script that writes it printed the set of stroke counts and the set had two numbers in it. Re-read on the fixed shelf, 2026-09-24: 21 at one stroke, Gazette and Slab at three