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@FontsInUse@typo.social
mastodon 4.6.9Type at work in the real world. Fonts In Use is an independent archive of typography.
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Joined November 07, 2022
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MMMMMMMMMMMM… Microgramma is a squarish sans conceived to remain legible at very small sizes – hence the name. It was drawn by Alessandro Butti (1893–1959), director of Nebiolo’s Studio Artistico, and first cast in 1952, in five all-caps styles. Aldo Novarese – first Butti’s assistant and then his successor – subsequently reworked the design into Eurostile (1962), adding lowercase characters.
Over the weekend, we added three Uses of Microgramma. @drj@typo.social’s Bug-Byte contribution pushed it over the mark: this classic is now a member of Club 💯!
https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/1847/microgramma
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.
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/35835/the-arcane-alphabets-of-black-sabbath
(Buckle up, it’s a long one.)
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@djrrb@mastodon.social Welcome to the exclusive club of fonts in outer space! 🚀👽︎ 🌌 https://fontsinuse.com/sets/21360/fonts-in-outer-space
Join us in thanking @kontour@typo.social for being a Fonts In Use sponsor!
Ever since her Cholla https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/1994/cholla-sans in 1999 for Emigre, Sibylle Hagmann has been innovating in type design. Her latest is Riant Display: https://kontour.com/typefaces/riant-display
No one has supported Fonts In Use longer than @marksimonson@typo.social!
Mark recently issued a block-rockin’ script: Heckle. Read all about it: https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/introducing-heckle/
Mass-Driver is the type foundry of Rutherford Craze, and one of the fine sponsors that make Fonts In Use possible.
Today @mass_driver@typo.social has revealed its latest release: MD UI is a neo-grot in three optical sizes, complementing the monospaced MD IO. Check it out at https://mass-driver.com/typefaces/md-ui/ and read the design notes: https://mass-driver.com/article/md-ui-a-typeface-for-interfacing
PampaType @pampa@typo.social was founded in 2001 by Alejandro Lo Celso as the first digital type foundry in South America. Today they’ve made their 100th contribution to Fonts In Use. ¡Felicitaciones!
https://fontsinuse.com/contributors/2281/pampatype?order=most-liked
We’d like to thank the good folks of @RTypography@typo.social for supporting Fonts In Use as a sponsor.
Visit the Porto-based type foundry at https://www.r-typography.com/ and check out their latest double release: Mild Grotesk is “an unobtrusive sans-serif that bridges the gap between Neo-Grotesque rationality and humanistic warmth”. Soft Grotesk is its rounded counterpart. Both come as variable fonts with axes for weight and optical size.
Cheers to @typotheque@typo.social, a Fonts In Use core sponsor since 2024!
You can decide how they organize their next type specimen by playing their Font Expressiveness Game: https://www.typotheque.com/blog/font-expressiveness-game
Fonts In Use is made possible by sponsors like Darden Studio, who has supported the project for over five years!
Right now they’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of Joshua Darden’s Omnes: https://www.dardenstudio.com/omnes#info
Staff pick:
Shelf Life is a feature documentary that observes the parallels of the cheese aging process and the human experience of growing old. The film posters were designed by Lauren King, using Mausoleum. The typeface was designed by Phaedra Charles of Undercase Type who describes it as a “flared serif geometric deco typeface family”. 🧀
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/75940/shelf-life-movie-posters
#FontsInUse #MoviePosters #fonts #typeface
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To think that 60 was a lot…
This week, the members of the moderation team outdid themselves and processed submissions by seventy-four (74) different contributors. 🙌 Pretty sure that that’s an all-time record.
Oldest typeface to be featured: Fleischmann-Gotiſch (1740s)
Newest fonts on the block: Garabosse, Solæ, Ufficio Mono (all 2025)
https://fontsinuse.com/
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For the Tenth Anniversary Issue of AN Interior, Studio Loutsis used two typefaces by @greg@typo.social Gazdowicz / @commercial@typo.social: Caslon Ionic appears mainly for the “Future of Vision” feature. Terza Display serves as display face for other parts of the magazine – together with Suisse Int’l (Swiss Typefaces) and KTF Rublena (@anfalov@typo.social).
More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/74382/an-interior-magazine-tenth-anniversary-issue
#InteriorDesign #magazine #typography #fonts #typefaces #FontsInUse
Gongrats to our friends at @futurefonts@typo.social! Launched in 2018, they pioneered the idea of selling #fonts in progress. These future fonts – created by their community of independent type designers – are now represented with 500+ in-use examples in the #FontsInUse Collection 💯💯💯💯💯 https://fontsinuse.com/sets/3614/future-fonts-1
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“What do you dream about?” is a typographic list of different types of #dreams. The book was made by Tim Bauer, Marei Hager, and Jennifer Treacy as a student project at HS Mainz. They paired Altro Serif (Zetafonts) with ABC Stefan (Dinamo). More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/72764/what-do-you-dream-about
Sixty years ago, in November 1963, #MauriceSendak published his now famous #ChildrensBook, Where the Wild Things Are.
Did you know that the casual letterforms on the first edition #BookCover aren’t custom drawn, but type? They stem from an obscure #font named Safari which came with numerous alternate glyphs. Patrick Concannon put together a post about the #design, and @jaykay109@mstdn.social tracked down the origin of the #typeface. More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/54045/where-the-wild-things-are-by-maurice-sendak-h
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Wonder what Fonts In Use woulda been if it was a named option.
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“Koalicje wody / Coalition of Waters” is an exhibition that was shown last year at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Słupsk, Poland. Karolina Pietrzyk and Tobias Wenig designed the posters and other printed matter using KTF Prima: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/72588/koalicje-wody-coalition-of-waters
@anfalov@typo.social started work on this neo-grotesk during his studies at ECAL. It’s an interpretation of Nebiolo’s Forma, designed 1965–68 by a team of eight designers under the direction of Aldo Novarese. After years of being in development, KTF Prima was released this week with Kyiv Type Foundry.
Tired of the same old #fonts?
In the past seven days, we added 64 new Uses to the Collection at https://fontsinuse.com.
Between those, 28 #typefaces were documented for the first time.
These debutants include old and new designs. Intrigue and Magister go back to the 1960s. Some incl. Aconchego, Grez, Hublot, Terza Display, and Tid came out in the past 12 months. Yet again others are unreleased (EB George) or proprietary (Haut-Bailly, TR Supply Gaskessel, Sommerro Sans).
This Saturday, we published a batch of Uses for typefaces with horizontal contrast, i.e., thick tops and bottoms. In particular, there’s:
• the classic Zipper (Bob Newman, Letraset, 1970)
• the lesser known Sintex (Aldo Novarese, VGC, c.1970)
• the downright obscure Kangaroo (Dave West, PLINC, c.1969)
• and the OG, Gothic Bold (Hamilton, 1889).
See them all: https://fontsinuse.com/search/advanced?v=2&match0=all&typefaces0=32521,31801,31312,88960
#FontsInUse #fonts #typefaces #ScienceFiction #paperbacks #BookCovers
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@internetarchive
Here’s a look at the eight built-in fonts of The Print Shop, most of which are crude bitmaps of existing typefaces:
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/6166/the-print-shop
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@MauriceMeilleur For those interested in Minérale (incl. its use for And the Roots of Rhythm Remain), here’s the link:
https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/46210/minerale
Over the past days, we have published more than 25 new uses of #fonts with interlocking letterforms. https://fontsinuse.com/tags/10566/interlocking-letterforms
The examples include film titles and posters, record and book covers, food packaging and more. They range from 1961 to 2023, and from Brazil to Greece and the Philippines.
See all uses of the featured fonts by Headliners, Filmotype, PLINC, Lettergraphics, House Industries, @typodermic@mastodon.social, and PintassilgoPrints: https://fontsinuse.com/search/advanced?v=2&match0=all&typefaces0=230949,40498,125579,144046,28096,29098,28977,202766,115266,161117,126972,91899,125578
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@typeoff@typo.social @johnbutler@typo.social A bit more background on Stefan-George-Schrift (a.k.a. St-G-Schrift): https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/244656/st-g-schrift
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Homage to Jean Widmer by the École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL (French):
https://www.ensad.fr/fr/hommage-de-lecole-des-arts-decoratifs-psl-jean-widmer
Staff pick:
Dead Minutes is “a story game about scale, time, organisation, and the afterlife” by Tom K. Kemp. Samuel Salminen’s design of the accompanying booklet is typeset using Mercure (Charles Mazé / @abyme@typo.social) and Optima (Hermann Zapf). More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/60294/dead-minutes-by-tom-k-kemp
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@janmaack @letterformarchive Gongrats, Jan! Happy to hear you found our record helpful: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/44829/astree
Most of the historical facts are thanks to the research conducted by @PaulShaw for A2-TYPE in 2019: https://a2-type.co.uk/a2-mazarin/more-info
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Tom Carnase’s Bernase Roman in early use for “Make America a better place”. The campaign for the Peace Corps was designed in 1968 by Bernie Zlotnick at Young & Rubicam. Copywriting by Mort Redner, photo by Carl Fischer.
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/37336/make-america-a-better-place-peace-corps-poste
Contributor Garrison’s compelling theory: this might be Bernase Roman’s original use (it was officially released by ITC in 1970), and its name is a portmanteau of Bernie Zlotnick + Tom Carnase.
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@xotypeco It’s Matthew Carter’s Shelley Script: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/27836/shelley-script
https://mastodon.social/deck/@litherland@typo.social/115501050166591898
“Kertész – Lartigue. Un pas de côté” is the catalog for the eponymous exhibition at Espace Richaud, Versailles, in 2023. It presents works by two pioneers of modern #photography, #JacquesHenriLartigue and #AndréKertész.
Design by Clémence Michon using Persona (@abyme@typo.social) and Louize Display (@205TF).
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/54383/kertesz-lartigue-un-pas-de-cote
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@djrrb@mastodon.social We love it!
This probably makes the Top 3 of largest ~typographic letters documented on Fonts In Use so far … @nicksherman@typo.social?
Contenders are the Tillamook Air Museum https://fontsinuse.com/uses/1713/tillamook-air-museum-world-s-largest-helvetic and this 2019 Brexit protest message https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28942/the-will-of-the-people-has-changed-andnbsp-le
See more XXL type:
https://fontsinuse.com/tags/20056/xxl-type
#FontsInUse #typography #BigType
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@eWalthert @alicesavoie Magnifique! 🐉 We’d love to see a contribution. The designers, Élise Auger (graphics) and Flavien Conilleau (space), have more pics: https://eliseauger.com/work/la-chambre-des-dragons/ https://cargocollective.com/flavienco/Museographie-Jeux-Experiences-interactives
So does the Château’s website:
https://www.chateaunantes.fr/la-chambre-des-dragons/
https://www.chateaunantes.fr/evenements/tout-feu-tout-flamme/
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@blag Not that we know of. But we’re certainly open for such a submission! Are you interested? If not, maybe @lorp – who has a thing for documenting Trump-related amateur typography, see
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/63559/trump-100-000-watch
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/36632/four-seasons-total-landscaping
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/63366/melania-trump-book-promotion