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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 8d

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.

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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 13d

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

Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 13d

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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Sponsor
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Beautifully crafted handwritten fonts
that explore the endless possibilities of
hand lettering & sign-writing.
Check them out!

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 13d

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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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 29d

Yep, good catch. It’s Instrument Serif. fontsinuse.com/typefaces/21...

Instrument Serif in use

A condensed display font designed for the Instrument brand. Designed by Rodrigo Fuenzalida with direction from Jordan Egstad. Comes in roman and italic styles.

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Typographica @typographica.org · Sep 5

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

#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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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · Aug 25

Don’t have an account yet? It lets you do stuff like save likes, create sets, and create a custom “Stream” of Typefaces, Foundries, Type Designers, and Users you want to follow.

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · Aug 25

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.

You can subscribe here: fontsinuse.com/newsletter

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · Jul 14

Moore Computer typeface (modified)
Linton, ND

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · Aug 17

The script is written by hand, perhaps by the Chief White House Calligrapher, Lee Ann Clark.

Rick Paulus previously held the position. He spoke at @letterformarchive.org’s Letterform Lecture in 2019. letterformarchive.org/events/view/...

Calligraphy in the Digital Age

The work of the calligrapher, the specific and intended arrangement of 26 simple characters, is unique amongst the visual arts in that we are held to the literally “carved in...

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crc.studio @crcstudio.bsky.social · Jul 29

[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...

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Stephen Coles @stewf.com · Jul 31

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.

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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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · Jul 27

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.

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(Buckle up, it’s a long one.)

A collage of typographic details from Black Sabbath’s first four albums, shown alongside cropped specimens of the typefaces used.

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Humu Trott @humuhumu.com · Jul 22

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

The cover of Rosey Grier's Needlepoint for Men, published in 1972. On the cover, Rosey is working on some needlepoint. He's looking into the camera. He's ready to talk to you, but he's not going to put his needlepoint down to do it.

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · Jul 15

Fonts In Use is not active on Instagram.

We’ve abandoned problematic platforms, embraced ethical alternatives, and survived to talk about it.

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Geordi La Forge “No/Yes” meme.
No: Dystopian corporate platforms.
Yes: Autonomy, standards, and the Open Web.

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · Jun 27

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).

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · Jun 20

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.

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Typographica @typographica.org · Jun 20

@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

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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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · Jun 13

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!

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 ...

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · Jun 8

Along with #SusanKare designs, Venice was one the “City” fonts that came with the original #Macintosh. fontsinuse.com/type_designe...

#BitmapFonts #TypeDesign #BillAtkinson

Bill Atkinson

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · Jun 8

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.

Glyph sets for Venice in two weights, taken from The Apple Macintosh Book by Cary Lu. Bellevue: Microsoft Press, 1984. Digitized by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mac_The_Apple_Macintosh_Book_Cary_Lu_1984/page/n291/mode/2up

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · Jun 4

See it in use, often sporting its characteristic swash forms and cap ligatures:
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* Not counting Arial, which was co-designed by Patricia Saunders with Robin Nicholas.

Romie in use

Started in 2017 and first released in 2019 in a single weight. Reworked in 2022 with an expanded glyph set, incl. a “mythical large ligatures set”, as well as three more weights. Italics were added i...

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · Jun 4

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.

A 4×3 grid with thumbnail images for twelve Uses of Romie, as shown on fontsinuse.com

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · May 21

It is Futura Display, indeed.

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Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · May 11

And see examples of Lettera alphabets in use, complied by our friend Florian Hardwig
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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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · May 5

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

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.

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