Fonts In Use

For nearly 14 years, you’ve been adding location info to your Uses. We’ve always wanted a visual way to see this data. Rob Meek built it for us. Introducing the Fonts In Use Map: fontsinuse.com/map

Was reminded what a good source of graphic design inspiration the @fontsinuse.com Staff Picks feed is. Probably the best source today, in fact. fontsinuse.com?filters=staf...

Website I missed for a bit and realized is still kicking: fontsinuse.com they have RSS feeds! You can get a nice dose of typography in your feedreader! Also great for giving you ideas and answering the type questions you didn't know you had

c'mon First Circuit be serious www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

Join us in thanking @kontour.bsky.social for being a Fonts In Use sponsor! Ever since her Cholla fontsinuse.com/typefaces/19... in 1999 for Emigre, Sibylle Hagmann has been innovating in type design. Her latest is Riant Display: kontour.com/typefaces/ri... #Fonts #FontsInUseSponsors

No one has supported Fonts In Use longer than @marksimonson.bsky.social! Mark recently issued a block-rockin’ script: Heckle. Read all about it: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie... #Fonts #FontsInUseSponsors

Cheers to @typotheque.com, a Fonts In Use core sponsor since 2024! You can decide how they organize their next type specimen by playing their Font Expressiveness Game: www.typotheque.com/blog/font-ex... #Fonts #FontsInUseSponsors

Fonts In Use is made possible by sponsors like @dardenstudio.bsky.social, who has supported the project for over five years! Right now they’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of Joshua Darden’s Omnes: www.dardenstudio.com/omnes#info #Fonts #FontsInUseSponsors

Have you used any of our fonts in a live project? If you’re able to share an image or two (or better yet, submit a @fontsinuse.com post!), I’d love to hear what you worked on, and potentially feature it on the next version of our website

Linotype faces used by winners of @AIGAdesign’s “Fifty Books” award, 1924–36. https://archive.org/stream/Mergenthaler1935TheLegibilityOfType/mlc-legibility-of-type-1935-0600rgbjpg#page/n37/mode/2up

Lovely deployment of Churchward Roundsquare for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia. fontsinuse.com/uses/71654/b...

Big thanks to @fairetype.bsky.social who just renewed their Fonts In Use sponsorship for another year. Please support them with a follow and a visit to www.fairetype.com.

DJR really is a treasure and I'm thrilled he's promoting other designers. Independent type design is critical to the future of written communication, as well as a subtle, exacting and exciting means of expression in its own right. #typography

Not only is David Jonathan Ross one of our longest-running sponsors, he’s now devoting some of his ad space to other type designers whose work he admires – starting with Petra Dočekalová, who just launched her new foundry site, petra-d.com. What a gent!

The ingenuity of 19th-century newspaper ads never ceases to amaze me. This is 1880: fontsinuse.com/uses/24847/w... #Typography #GraphicDesign #Victorian #1880s

Moore Computer typeface (modified) Linton, ND

[SPOTTED] Cool branding for Cherry Creek Framing, designed by Amélie Lehoux. Very clever work. ● More: amelielehoux.com/cherry-creek... ● Via: fontsinuse.com/uses/69360/c...

I’ve been hoping for this! My favorite tech writer, @molly.wiki, just wrote a great intro to RSS: www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-... @fontsinuse.com has long provided RSS feeds for many aspects of our site.

New on the blog: The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath To commemorate Ozzy Osbourne, we took a deep dive into the obscure typefaces used on Black Sabbath’s first four album covers. fontsinuse.com/uses/35835/t... (Buckle up, it’s a long one.)

My world just got a little bigger, a little brighter, thanks to @fontsinuse.com. fontsinuse.com/uses/41221/r...

Fonts In Use is not active on Instagram. We’ve abandoned problematic platforms, embraced ethical alternatives, and survived to talk about it. More here: fontsinuse.com/uses/63903/f...

Thanks to Elizabeth Goodspeed at @typographicsnyc.bsky.social for suggesting Fonts In Use as a place to find true and varied references to specific moments in the past (in an age when AI gives a false impression of design eras based on a tossed salad of samey pastiches of that past).

1929–1961, The Inland Printer ran a “Typographic Scoreboard” column tallying up typefaces used in full-page ads in “The Saturday Evening Post“ & “Vogue”. We should put this data into graphical form showing how typefaces rose & fell in popularity over those 30 years. archive.org/search?query...

@dardenstudio.bsky.social’s Joyce Ketterer has been demystifying font licenses for years. Her June 25 workshop is a great opportunity to improve the way you buy fonts: www.eventbrite.com/e/demystifyi... @typographicsnyc.bsky.social ticket holders get 10% off. #Fonts #FontLicensing #Typography

Fonts In Use is made possible by sponsors like Darden Studio, who has supported our project for four years now! Their latest fonts are Gamay www.dardenstudio.com/gamay and Kit Rounded fontsinuse.com/typefaces/23.... Please thank them with a visit and follow: @dardenstudio.bsky.social!

And see examples of Lettera alphabets in use, complied by our friend Florian Hardwig at @fontsinuse.com⁠: fontsinuse.com/sets/5384/le...

New on the Blog: #StarWars movie posters from Hungary. Tibor Helényi’s design demonstrates how the world’s most famous space opera looked very different behind the Iron Curtain. fontsinuse.com/uses/41850/s... #TiborHelényi #JohnLangdon #MayThe4th #MayTheFourth #StarWarsDay #FontsInUse #Fonts

Milestone unlocked: we published the 30,000th Use on fontsinuse.com today! ♥︎ Thanks to all contributors for making this happen, as well as to our sponsors from the type and design community. #FontsInUse #typography

As we know at @fontsinuse.com, most people are more likely to buy fonts after they see them in use.

Really great to see MD IO playing a role in @tutaprivacy.bsky.social’s updated branding! (It’s always a nice surprise to discover a project like this via @fontsinuse.com, too) fontsinuse.com/uses/65596/t...

RIP Roberta. fontsinuse.com/uses/8873/ro... #Typography #AlbumArt #RobertaFlack

7UP logo and packaging by Thomas Miller, chief designer at Morton Goldsholl Associates, Chicago, 1976. Learn more: fontsinuse.com/uses/4159/7-... #GraphicDesign #Typography #7Up #Packaging #BlackDesigners

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cool type fact: the title on the 1998 hardcover of _American Psycho_ was made by *deleting control points* from a digital font outline, warping it (almost) unrecognizably. The original typeface is Granjon. Source: fontsinuse.com/uses/49319/a...

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