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Type at work in the real world. Fonts In Use is an independent archive of typography. fontsinuse.com Primarily on Mastodon: typo.social/@fontsinuse Newsletter: newsletter.fontsinuse.com?tag=blues…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 24/09/2026
For 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
Screenshot of a browser at fontsinuse.com/map showing a website titled Fonts In Use and a header, “Map”. Below the head is a world map with many circle and pin icons.The map is now zoomed into Europe.The pin for Kyiv is selected, showing a pop-up with the title, “Kyiv”, and “Has 59 uses”. The most recent use is displayed with the title, “The Civilian Readiness Center”, an image, and a “View” link.A screenshot of fontsinuse.com showing “Uses with artwork from Kyiv (Ukraine)” and a grid of images.
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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 19/09/2026
Was 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...
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Ben Millett @benmillett.net · 10/12/2025
I 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.
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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Website 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 had
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 01/07/2026
New 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 #FontsInUse
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The Typography of whitehouse.gov, 2000–2026
A survey of type used on the website of the People’s House doubles as a capsule view of web designers’ evolving professional identity.
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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
c'mon First Circuit be serious www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
Fonts used by US Courts of Appeals in Opinions
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 07/05/2026
Join 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
Graphic of a geometric sans serif typeface in three styles: light, bold, and inline.
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 04/05/2026
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.
Detail from a 1952 specimen for the typeface Microgramma, showing its letter M in all five styles, in 11–12 sizes each.
Source: https://archive.org/details/microgramma-specimen-nebiolo-1952/page/n5/mode/2up
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 04/05/2026
No 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
A cropped specimen of a brush script typeface in six weights.
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 04/05/2026
Cheers 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 #FontsInUseSponsors
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Typotheque: Font Expressiveness Game
We’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...
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 04/05/2026
Fonts 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
Graphic with a large “20” and “Years of Omnes” on a colorful background.
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 18/03/2026
Mass-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
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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 03/03/2026
Have 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
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 17/01/2016
Linotype faces used by winners of @AIGAdesign’s “Fifty Books” award, 1924–36. archive.org/stream/Mergenthaler1935…
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 31/10/2025
Lovely deployment of Churchward Roundsquare for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia. fontsinuse.com/uses/71654/b...
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 30/09/2025
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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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 · 25/09/2025
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
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 25/09/2025
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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Typographica @typographica.org · 05/09/2025
The ingenuity of 19th-century newspaper ads never ceases to amaze me. This is 1880: fontsinuse.com/uses/24847/w... #Typography #GraphicDesign #Victorian #1880s
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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 · 25/08/2025
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 Or check the box on your account settings page: fontsinuse.com/user/settings
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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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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Moore Computer typeface (modified) Linton, ND
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crc.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...
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Stephen Coles @stewf.com · 31/07/2025
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.
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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 · 27/07/2025
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.)
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 · 22/07/2025
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 · 15/07/2025
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...
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 · 27/06/2025
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 · 20/06/2025
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...
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Typographica @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 #Typography
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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 · 13/06/2025
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!
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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 · 08/06/2025
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 · 04/06/2025
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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Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · 12/05/2025
And see examples of Lettera alphabets in use, complied by our friend Florian Hardwig at @fontsinuse.com⁠: fontsinuse.com/sets/5384/le...
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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 · 05/05/2025
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
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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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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 05/04/2025
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
Detail from the homepage at fontsinuse.com. The counter shows a total of 30,000 Uses in the Collection. Of the three thumbnail images, the latest one is for a 1940 book titled “30,000 on the Hoof”, with cover typography in the Atrax typeface.
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Typographica @typographica.org · 27/03/2025
As we know at @fontsinuse.com, most people are more likely to buy fonts after they see them in use.
Screenshot of a graphic of an eye next to text: “More than 50% state they are more likely to buy a font if they see examples of it used in brands or products.”
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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 25/02/2025
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...
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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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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 25/02/2025
RIP Roberta. fontsinuse.com/uses/8873/ro... #Typography #AlbumArt #RobertaFlack
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Roberta Flack – Quiet Fire album art
One of the all-time great examples of type on a circle. Design by Ira Friedlander. Photography by Rod Bristow.
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Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · 02/02/2025
7UP 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
Side of a box featuring a dotted graphic with the word “7UP” made of dots. Photo of the full bottle box, now empty.
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Pauline Nuñez @paulinenunez.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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David Lynch
David Lynch
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rntz @rntz.net · 01/01/2025
cool 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...
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Shaaloani Roadhead 🔜 Claws Out @hyenablood.yeen.world · 02/01/2025
fontsinuse.com telling y'all right now this site is so powerful
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 24/12/2024
Happy 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...
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer movie titles
The classic Christmas TV special opens with letterforms that can be traced back to the Lettera alphabet book series, Ben Shahn lettering, and Romanesque capitals.
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 23/12/2024
Science 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 #BookCovers
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 21/12/2024
Dec 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)…
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 10/12/2024
The 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
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 01/12/2024
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. fontsinuse.com/uses/38022/t...
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Teatar &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...
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 30/11/2024
This 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 …
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Typographica @typographica.org · 25/11/2024
Thanks 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...
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litherland @lither.land · 19/11/2024
Underappreciated (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.
If you search on the release year 1940 on Fonts In Use, you’ll see lots of uses with, e.g., Lydian (1938–1940). Screenshot shows several book covers featuring Lydian and Lydian cursive, along with a couple of earlier typefaces (Venus, Futura) in the mix.
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