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Written by Fonts In Use on 2025-01-30 at 17:34

Staff pick:

The #typography for the #JohnWaters Collection on Criterion Channel brings together Flyer, Red Top, and a whole bunch of styles from House Industries’ Sign Painter series. These choices evoke lettering as seen in the US in the mid-20th century, the era in which films like Hairspray, Female Trouble and Cry-Baby are set.

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/65390/john-waters-collection-on-criterion-channel

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2025-01-20 at 17:15

On Sunday, we added a series with not-so-common typefaces that have direct or indirect roots in French #ArtNouveau.

It includes a poster designed by Milton Glaser using Métropolitaines (Fonderie S. Berthier & Durey, 1905) – which is based on the lettering created for the entrances to the Paris Métro – and the first in-use examples for Filmotype Vassar & Vanderbilt, Letraset Gary, and PLINC Battleship. The latter is a revival of Modern Style (Peignot & Fils, c.1897).

https://fontsinuse.com/search/advanced?v=2&match0=all&typefaces0=191944%2C149696%2C6883%2C124070&order=most-liked

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2025-01-20 at 13:10

A highlight: #BloodIncantation’s Absolute Elsewhere, for which they used scans of Windsweep, an alphabet drawn by English fantasy illustrator #RodneyMatthews in 1984: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/65494/blood-incantation-absolute-elsewhere-album-co

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2025-01-20 at 13:06

Over the weekend, we published a big batch of album art, ranging from easy listening and comedy to death metal, and dating from the late sixties to 2024.

One focus was on #typefaces by Charles Papirtis – the geometric Pink Mouse and his Bodoni Shaded – and other display designs by PLINC, like S.E. Norton’s spooky Mr. Bones, Dave Davison’s old-timey Carousel, and the graphic Ginger Snap and Riverside Drive by Craig Mierop and Peter Max.

https://fontsinuse.com/search/advanced?v=2&match0=all&typefaces0=85385,240065,115262,78193,47780,157929

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2025-01-18 at 09:38

Often Georgia is not in the limelight, but quietly does the heavy lifting as a text font optimized for the screen. Here’s one Use where it takes center stage, for the cover of an album by indie rock band Taxes, designed by @annie: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/16997/taxes-it-never-ends-and-kali-album-art

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2025-01-18 at 09:26

Hooray for Matthew Carter! Georgia joins Club 💯: it’s the first of his many seminal typeface designs to be documented with one hundred in-use examples in the #FontsInUse Collection:

https://fontsinuse.com/type_designers/83/matthew-carter

[#]MatthewCarter #Georgia #archives #documentation

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2025-01-17 at 13:19

Staff pick:

The Matrimony Days in #Brussels are an annual event that highlights the Belgian capital’s historical heritage. For the 2023 edition, Studio Le Roy Cleeremans worked with two #typefaces designed by women: Ambiant Sans by Laura Csocsán and Carlos Walter by Clémentine Desmenez. Illustration by Olga Prader. More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/58195/journees-du-matrimoine-matrimonium-dagen-2023

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2025-01-16 at 19:13

RIP #DavidLynch.

The creator of the Twin Peaks series and director of films such as Blue Velvet and Dune passed away at the age of 78.

See the poster for his first feature-length film, Eraserhead from 1977, and other related typographic designs:

https://fontsinuse.com/tags/2960/david-lynch?order=most-liked

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2025-01-15 at 14:14

Staff pick:

Studio 024 makes early use of Image Future Black for the visual identity of Bowler, a contemporary eatery in Auckland.

Image Future is the debut release by

Guillaume Goron. The geometric sans is available in @productiontype’s Beta Program.

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/63975/bowler

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2025-01-13 at 14:07

Staff pick:

Minneapolis-based Studio MPLS designed a coffee tin that convincingly establishes a vintage c.1940s look.

The #FontsInUse are @marksimonson’s Coquette, a hybrid between an upright “French” script and early geometric sans serifs, and two quirky sans serifs by Jeff Levine: Arrevederci and Main Feature are based on 1950s sheet music lettering and plastic letters found on theater marquees, respectively. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/65505/roastar-sun-ground-coffee-tins

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2025-01-03 at 08:35

There currently are 1̶.̶1̶7̶5̶ 1.183 Uses designed in 2024 documented on #FontsInUse.

Browse the Collection by year: https://fontsinuse.com/search/advanced?v=2&match0=all&artwork-date0=is-2024&order=most-liked

[#]typography #statistics #archives

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2025-01-02 at 16:14

So far, we’ve documented 139 Uses featuring #typefaces released in 2024.

https://fontsinuse.com/search/advanced?v=2&match0=all&typeface-date0=is-2024

[#]FontsInUse #statistics #fonts

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2024-12-24 at 11:24

Happy holidays! 🦌🔔🎄

Here’s @fhardwig examining the movie titles of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The 1964 #Christmas TV special opens with letterforms that can be traced back to the Lettera alphabet book series, Ben Shahn lettering, and Romanesque capitals.

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/33475/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-movie-titles

[#]FontsInUse #fonts #lettering

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2024-12-23 at 14:45

Science fiction writer Barry N. Malzberg passed away last week at the age of 85 (via @Locusmag and @SFRuminations).

Learn about the #fonts used on the covers of some of his books, including three editions of Beyond Apollo, which won Malzberg the inaugural John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1973:

https://fontsinuse.com/tags/22169/barry-n-malzberg?order=most-liked

[#]BarryNMalzberg #ScienceFiction #FontsInUse #typefaces

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2024-12-20 at 14:38

29LT Idris Sharp

Innit @w__h_

Items

Jackelyn Script

Jaja

Joystix @typodermic

Juana

Lyon Arabic @commercial

Melindrosa @flaviazim @futurefonts

Mislab @typofonderie

Montagu Slab

Newake

GT Pantheon

Reckham @signaltype

Tikgo

Tundra

GT Ultra Standard

Filmotype Yucca

A big thanks to all contributors!

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2024-12-20 at 14:38

Friday numbers:

In the past seven days, we added 62 new Uses to the Collection at https://fontsinuse.com.

Between those, 29 #typefaces were featured for the first time.

The oldest debutants are from 1922 (Ehmcke-Mediaeval) and from before 1900 (Elzevir Initials), the most recent ones came out this month (Attendorn) or are not even released yet.

Full list:

Attendorn

Cardila

Chong Modern

Cosmos

Dimitri

Ehmcke-Mediaeval

Elzevir Initials

Fulgor

ABC Gramercy

Greyhound

STK Hugo

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2024-12-10 at 03:29

Of course, this list is determined by what folks contribute to the site, and it is heavily weighted by current fashions. Notable labels not listed:

– metal foundries now unclaimed or owned by other companies

– PLINC (now owned by House Industries)

– Emigre (and others popular in 1990s to early 2000s which are not yet well represented on the site)

– all the foundries whose top fonts are now owned by Monotype (Colophon, Font Bureau, ITC, Linotype, Sharp…)

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2024-12-10 at 03:03

The 23 font companies represented by the 120 most frequently used typefaces on Fonts In Use:

205TF

Adobe

Alias

Blaze

Commercial

Dalton Maag

Darden

Dinamo

Emtype

Frere-Jones

Google

Grilli

House Industries

HvD

Klim

Lineto

Margot Lévêque

Monotype

Nikolas

OH no

Pangram Pangram

Swiss

The Type Founders

Weltkern

A list inspired by this question from @Nadine: https://typedrawers.com/discussion/5218/what-are-the-top-50-foundries-today

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2024-12-08 at 16:19

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Written by Fonts In Use on 2024-12-01 at 20:09

Staff Pick: Mihajlo Arsovski was a graphic designer working in Croatia. In the early 1970s, he designed some 200 posters for the renowned experimental Zagreb theater company &TD Theatre, and his logo design for the company is still in use today.

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/38022/teatar-and-td-logo-and-posters-1970-1973

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