Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 24/09/2026For 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 0123
Reposted by Fonts In UseJoni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 19/09/2026Was 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...fontsinuse.comFonts In Use 1152
Reposted by Fonts In UseBen Millett @benmillett.net · 10/12/2025I subscribed to the RSS feed of fontsinuse.com and it’s been a daily delight. I knew that a typeface can really change a project, but it’s been reinforced seeing what specifically people have used, especially with sans serifs that are almost Helvetica but not quite. 172
Reposted by Fonts In UseLuigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Website 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 hadfontsinuse.comFonts In Use 052
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 01/07/2026New on the Blog: A survey of type used on the website of the People’s House doubles as a capsule view of web designers’ evolving professional identity. fontsinuse.com/uses/78453/t... #PoliticalDesign #POTUS #Typography #WebDesign #DesignHistory #USPolitics #FontsInUsefontsinuse.comThe Typography of whitehouse.gov, 2000–2026A survey of type used on the website of the People’s House doubles as a capsule view of web designers’ evolving professional identity. 2112
Reposted by Fonts In UseMatthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026c'mon First Circuit be serious www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau... 2713621
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 07/05/2026Join 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 0111
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 04/05/2026MMMMMMMMMMMM… 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. 1261
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 04/05/2026No 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 1164
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 04/05/2026Cheers 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 #FontsInUseSponsorstypotheque.comTypotheque: Font Expressiveness GameWe’re creating a new type specimen and need your help ranking 200+ fonts by expressiveness — from most neutral to most characterful. Play pairwise comparison game and you might spot some unreleased ty... 082
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 04/05/2026Fonts 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 061
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 18/03/2026Mass-Driver is the type foundry of Rutherford Craze (@craze.co.uk) and one of the fine sponsors that make Fonts In Use possible. #fonts #FontsInUseSponsors 2101
Reposted by Fonts In UseMass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 03/03/2026Have 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 261
Reposted by Fonts In UseFonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 17/01/2016Linotype faces used by winners of @AIGAdesign’s “Fifty Books” award, 1924–36. archive.org/stream/Mergenthaler1935… 3124
Reposted by Fonts In UseDaniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 31/10/2025Lovely deployment of Churchward Roundsquare for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia. fontsinuse.com/uses/71654/b... 3428
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 30/09/2025Big 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.fairetype.comFaire TypeWe are a Brooklyn-based type foundry creating dynamic retail fonts that fit the moment and bespoke custom fonts and logotypes for brands. 091
Reposted by Fonts In UseLinotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 25/09/2025DJR 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 172
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 25/09/2025Not 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! 0161
Reposted by Fonts In UseTypographica @typographica.org · 05/09/2025The ingenuity of 19th-century newspaper ads never ceases to amaze me. This is 1880: fontsinuse.com/uses/24847/w... #Typography #GraphicDesign #Victorian #1880sfontsinuse.comWalker Brothers Carpets ad, 1880This 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... 2183
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 25/08/2025As 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 Or check the box on your account settings page: fontsinuse.com/user/settingsfontsinuse.comFonts In Use is not active on InstagramWe’ve abandoned problematic platforms, embraced ethical alternatives, and survived to talk about it. 171
Reposted by Fonts In UseRural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Moore Computer typeface (modified) Linton, ND 228232
Reposted by Fonts In Usecrc.studio @crcstudio.bsky.social · 29/07/2025[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... 062
Reposted by Fonts In UseStephen Coles @stewf.com · 31/07/2025I’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.citationneeded.newsCurate your own newspaper with RSSEscape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read 162
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 27/07/2025New 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.) 523484
Reposted by Fonts In UseHumu Trott @humuhumu.com · 22/07/2025My world just got a little bigger, a little brighter, thanks to @fontsinuse.com. fontsinuse.com/uses/41221/r... 192
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 15/07/2025Fonts 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... 37218
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 27/06/2025Thanks 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). 0122
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 20/06/20251929–1961, 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...archive.orgInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine 052
Reposted by Fonts In UseTypographica @typographica.org · 20/06/2025@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 #Typographyeventbrite.comDemystifying Font Licensing with Joyce KettererYou probably know that you don’t “buy” fonts, you “license” them… but what does that mean? 141
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 13/06/2025Fonts 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!dardenstudio.comGamay® - Display Font, Sans-Serif Workhorse - Darden StudioTrue 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 ... 0111
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 08/06/2025RIP 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. 1141
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 04/06/2025Congrats 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. 190
Reposted by Fonts In UseLetterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · 12/05/2025And see examples of Lettera alphabets in use, complied by our friend Florian Hardwig at @fontsinuse.com: fontsinuse.com/sets/5384/le...fontsinuse.comLetteraUses 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... 0101
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 05/05/2025New 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 #Fontsfontsinuse.comStar Wars movie posters from HungaryTibor Helényi’s art and typography demonstrate how the world’s most famous space opera looked very different behind the Iron Curtain. 0145
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 05/04/2025Milestone 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 1444
Reposted by Fonts In UseTypographica @typographica.org · 27/03/2025As we know at @fontsinuse.com, most people are more likely to buy fonts after they see them in use. 141
Reposted by Fonts In UseMass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 25/02/2025Really 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...fontsinuse.comTuta “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... 061
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 25/02/2025RIP Roberta. fontsinuse.com/uses/8873/ro... #Typography #AlbumArt #RobertaFlackfontsinuse.comRoberta Flack – Quiet Fire album artOne of the all-time great examples of type on a circle. Design by Ira Friedlander. Photography by Rod Bristow. 0202
Reposted by Fonts In UseLetterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · 02/02/20257UP 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 0642
Reposted by Fonts In UsePauline Nuñez @paulinenunez.bsky.social · 17/01/2025@fontsinuse.com fontsinuse.com/tags/2960/da...fontsinuse.comDavid LynchDavid Lynch 0143
Reposted by Fonts In Userntz @rntz.net · 01/01/2025cool 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... 05312
Reposted by Fonts In UseShaaloani Roadhead 🔜 Claws Out @hyenablood.yeen.world · 02/01/2025fontsinuse.com telling y'all right now this site is so powerfulfontsinuse.comFonts in Use 4252
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 24/12/2024Happy holidays! 🦌🔔🎄 Here’s Florian Hardwig 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. fontsinuse.com/uses/33475/r...fontsinuse.comRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer movie titlesThe classic Christmas TV special opens with letterforms that can be traced back to the Lettera alphabet book series, Ben Shahn lettering, and Romanesque capitals. 080
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 23/12/2024Science fiction writer Barry N. Malzberg passed away last week at the age of 85 (via @Locusmag and @SFRuminations@wandering.shop). Learn about the #fonts used on the covers of some of his books: fontsinuse.com/tags/22169/b... #BarryNMalzberg #ScienceFiction #typefaces #Typography #SciFi #BookCoversfontsinuse.comBarry N. MalzbergBarry N. Malzberg 020
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 21/12/2024Dec 13–20 numbers: In the past 7 days, we added 62 new Uses to the Collection at fontsinuse.com. Among those, 29 #typefaces were featured for the first time. The oldest are from 1922 (Ehmcke-Mediaeval) and before 1900 (Elzevir Initials). The most recent came out this month (Attendorn)…fontsinuse.comFonts in Use 1120
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 10/12/2024The 24 font companies represented by the 120 most frequently used typefaces on FIU: 205TF Adobe Alias Blaze Commercial Dalton Maag Darden Dinamo Emtype Frere-Jones Google Grilli House Industries HvD Klim Lineto Margot Lévêque Mark Simonson Monotype Nikolas OH no P22 Pangram Pangram Swiss Weltkern 1323
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 01/12/2024Staff 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. fontsinuse.com/uses/38022/t...fontsinuse.comTeatar &TD logo and posters (1970–1973)Mihajlo Arsovski was a graphic designer working in Croatia. From Adrian Curry’s 2023 column for MUBI’s Notebook column: Mihajlo Arsovski was born in Skopje, Macedonia, on July 9, 1937, to a family o... 081
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 30/11/2024This week we added 64 new Uses to the Collection at fontsinuse.com. A whopping 29 typefaces – new and old – were documented for the first time: Adobe Text Aesthet Nova Aguafina Script Arbeit Biró Script Boxed Brahma Rounded LL Brown Mono @lineto.bsky.social Crushual General Grotesque Mono Grammar … 1112
Reposted by Fonts In UseTypographica @typographica.org · 25/11/2024Thanks to @garyhornseth.bsky.social and @grogg.bsky.social for introducing me (bsky.app/profile/typo...) to this Miles Davis cover. It’s a curious outlier amid the familiar mid-1950s jazz aesthetic. Also, the first appearance of Haymarket Cartoon on @fontsinuse.com! fontsinuse.com/uses/64662/t... 093
Reposted by Fonts In Uselitherland @lither.land · 19/11/2024Underappreciated (by me, until now) feature of @fontsinuse.com: release by year. Unlike at Identifont, other releases from other years necessarily get mixed in—but it’s still really useful for a general *aura* of a given period in type design. 1121