Fonts In Use
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Type at work in the real world. Fonts In Use is an independent archive of typography. https://fontsinuse.com
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Newsletter: https://newsletter.fontsinuse.com?tag=bluesky
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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
October 30, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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
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Lovely deployment of Churchward Roundsquare for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia. fontsinuse.com/uses/71654/b...
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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.
Faire Type
We are a Brooklyn-based type foundry creating dynamic retail fonts that fit the moment and bespoke custom fonts and logotypes for brands.
www.fairetype.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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.
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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
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!
September 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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
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!
September 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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!
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The ingenuity of 19th-century newspaper ads never ceases to amaze me. This is 1880: fontsinuse.com/uses/24847/w...
#Typography #GraphicDesign #Victorian #1880s
#Typography #GraphicDesign #Victorian #1880s
Walker Brothers Carpets ad, 1880
This ad in The Salt Lake Herald., April 18, 1880, demonstrates the ingenuity of late nineteenth-century typographers. Given the cost of producing and printing engravings, newspaper ads rarely used ill...
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September 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The ingenuity of 19th-century newspaper ads never ceases to amaze me. This is 1880: fontsinuse.com/uses/24847/w...
#Typography #GraphicDesign #Victorian #1880s
#Typography #GraphicDesign #Victorian #1880s
As we mentioned in our June blog post (fontsinuse.com/uses/63903/f...), we’re gearing up to send the first issue of our email newsletter.
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We’ve abandoned problematic platforms, embraced ethical alternatives, and survived to talk about it.
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August 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
As we mentioned in our June blog post (fontsinuse.com/uses/63903/f...), we’re gearing up to send the first issue of our email newsletter.
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Moore Computer typeface (modified)
Linton, ND
Linton, ND
July 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Moore Computer typeface (modified)
Linton, ND
Linton, ND
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[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...
Very clever work.
● More: amelielehoux.com/cherry-creek...
● Via: fontsinuse.com/uses/69360/c...
July 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
[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...
Very clever work.
● More: amelielehoux.com/cherry-creek...
● Via: fontsinuse.com/uses/69360/c...
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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.
@fontsinuse.com has long provided RSS feeds for many aspects of our site.
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
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July 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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.
@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.)
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.)
July 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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.)
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.)
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My world just got a little bigger, a little brighter, thanks to @fontsinuse.com. fontsinuse.com/uses/41221/r...
July 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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...
We’ve abandoned problematic platforms, embraced ethical alternatives, and survived to talk about it.
More here:
fontsinuse.com/uses/63903/f...
July 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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...
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).
June 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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...
We should put this data into graphical form showing how typefaces rose & fell in popularity over those 30 years.
archive.org/search?query...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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June 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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...
We should put this data into graphical form showing how typefaces rose & fell in popularity over those 30 years.
archive.org/search?query...
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@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
@typographicsnyc.bsky.social ticket holders get 10% off.
#Fonts #FontLicensing #Typography
Demystifying Font Licensing with Joyce Ketterer
You probably know that you don’t “buy” fonts, you “license” them… but what does that mean?
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June 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
@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
@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!
Please thank them with a visit and follow: @dardenstudio.bsky.social!
Gamay® - Display Font, Sans-Serif Workhorse - Darden Studio
True to its namesake, the grape used to make Beaujolais wine, Gamay embraces both full-bodied and affable characteristics. Inspired in part by Drogowskaz, a contentious road signage typeface prolific ...
www.dardenstudio.com
June 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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!
Please thank them with a visit and follow: @dardenstudio.bsky.social!
RIP Bill Atkinson (1951–2025). During his time at Apple, he was central to the development of the graphical user interface of the Lisa and later the Macintosh, and is best known for creating MacPaint, QuickDraw, and HyperCard.
Atkinson also designed Venice, a chancery script bitmap font.
Atkinson also designed Venice, a chancery script bitmap font.
June 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
RIP Bill Atkinson (1951–2025). During his time at Apple, he was central to the development of the graphical user interface of the Lisa and later the Macintosh, and is best known for creating MacPaint, QuickDraw, and HyperCard.
Atkinson also designed Venice, a chancery script bitmap font.
Atkinson also designed Venice, a chancery script bitmap font.
Congrats to Romie!
The display serif by Margot Lévêque now has one hundred Uses in the #FontsInUse Collection. This makes it the first #typeface exclusively* designed by a woman to join Club 💯!
First released in 2019, Romie was updated a year ago to span six weights in roman and italic.
The display serif by Margot Lévêque now has one hundred Uses in the #FontsInUse Collection. This makes it the first #typeface exclusively* designed by a woman to join Club 💯!
First released in 2019, Romie was updated a year ago to span six weights in roman and italic.
June 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Congrats to Romie!
The display serif by Margot Lévêque now has one hundred Uses in the #FontsInUse Collection. This makes it the first #typeface exclusively* designed by a woman to join Club 💯!
First released in 2019, Romie was updated a year ago to span six weights in roman and italic.
The display serif by Margot Lévêque now has one hundred Uses in the #FontsInUse Collection. This makes it the first #typeface exclusively* designed by a woman to join Club 💯!
First released in 2019, Romie was updated a year ago to span six weights in roman and italic.
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And see examples of Lettera alphabets in use, complied by our friend Florian Hardwig
at @fontsinuse.com: fontsinuse.com/sets/5384/le...
at @fontsinuse.com: fontsinuse.com/sets/5384/le...
Lettera
Uses which feature letterforms derived directly or indirectly from showings in the Lettera series of alphabet source books. Lettera was edited by Armin Haab together with Alex Stocker (vol. 1) an...
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May 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
And see examples of Lettera alphabets in use, complied by our friend Florian Hardwig
at @fontsinuse.com: fontsinuse.com/sets/5384/le...
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
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
Star Wars movie posters from Hungary
Tibor Helényi’s art and typography demonstrate how the world’s most famous space opera looked very different behind the Iron Curtain.
fontsinuse.com
May 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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
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
♥︎ Thanks to all contributors for making this happen, as well as to our sponsors from the type and design community.
#FontsInUse #typography
April 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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
♥︎ Thanks to all contributors for making this happen, as well as to our sponsors from the type and design community.
#FontsInUse #typography
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As we know at @fontsinuse.com, most people are more likely to buy fonts after they see them in use.
March 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
As we know at @fontsinuse.com, most people are more likely to buy fonts after they see them in use.
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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...
(It’s always a nice surprise to discover a project like this via @fontsinuse.com, too)
fontsinuse.com/uses/65596/t...
Tuta “Turn ON Privacy”
Tuta (formerly Tutanota) is a company that respects its users’ privacy. They offer and develop the most secure email, calendar and contact services – the first one with quantum-safe encryption. Placin...
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February 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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...
(It’s always a nice surprise to discover a project like this via @fontsinuse.com, too)
fontsinuse.com/uses/65596/t...
