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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 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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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

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 · 14/04/2026

Wonder what Fonts In Use woulda been if it was a named option.

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 06/11/2025

It’s Matthew Carter’s typeface, Shelley (fontsinuse.com/typefaces/27...), but like much Word Art it’s been artificially bolded. But the White House has a Chief Calligrapher (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...), so why not have her do something proper? (Unless she’s been laid off like everyone else.)

Screenshot from myfonts.com showing Shelley Script, a formal calligraphic script, spelling out “The Oval Office”.

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 02/11/2025

In 1941, Linotype updated this booklet as “The Readability of Type” and added 1937–1941 to the table. (This is a reply to an archived post from 2016. We just migrated everything from X using the wonderful @cyd.social and will finally archive our account there.)

A table titled “Linotype Faces—“Fifty Books” Selections”. On the left is a list of typefaces with columns for years 1924–1941 and a Total column. The typefaces are listed in order of appearances Caslon Old Face is at the top with a count of 71. Next are Baskerville, Granjon, Janson, and Scotch.

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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!

Cropped screenshot of fontsinuse.com showing a square image filled with script font samples. Below the image:

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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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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 · 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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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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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 16/12/2022

On Dec 13 we posted the tweet shown in this screenshot. Tonight, that tweet is hidden, replaced with an ad, as part of Musk’s hamfisted/fascistic ban on all Mastodon links. So, we can’t link you to our social network of choice, but you can get there from fontsinuse.com.

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 13/12/2022

The Fonts In Use team unanimously condemns the assault on safety, security, and basic humanity continually displayed by Twitter’s new ownership. We loved it here, but can no longer justify engaging in this platform. Find us at typo.social/@FontsInUse and fontsinuse.com.

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 21/11/2022

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 24/10/2022

Tonight, our co-founder @NickSherman talks Franklin Gothic at @CooperType! coopertype.org/event/franklin_gothi… As a surprise for Nick, we just published a slew of FG in celebration: fontsinuse.com

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 10/10/2022

“Despite the fact that the practice of deriving Greek letterforms from Latin ones is formally similar in the cases of both Gill and Van Krimpen on one hand and Greek type users on the other, the power dynamics at play and the occasions are in fact very different.”

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 07/10/2022

Greek type users “had to step into the role of the type designer, repurposing Latin letterforms, modifying them to make them resemble Greek ones, or even creating new glyphs.” That’s how designer Leonidas Christakis assembled the magazine logo from (Latin-only) Letraset Candice.

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 07/10/2022

♀🇬🇷 New on the Blog: Reclaiming the City, Reclaiming Words @MPaganopoulou looks back on Πόλη Γυναικών (Póli Gynaikón – City of Women), the Greek feminist periodical from the 1980s: fontsinuse.com/uses/44785/reclaimin…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 03/10/2022

Contributor Patrick Concannon kicks off October 🎃 with a thorough look at the typography of The Exorcist – both of the 1971 novel and the 1973 movie adaptation: fontsinuse.com/tags/34697/the-exorc…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 27/09/2022

The @FontsInUse guessing game: 1. Switch to “Stack” layout mode (top right) 2. Guess the typeface from the thumbnail 3. Hover to reveal the answer x.com/w__h_/status/1574537410742194…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 23/09/2022

We’re not crying. This book is just really dusty. x.com/realdougwilson/status/1573352…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 09/08/2022

fontsinuse.com is dominated by Latin-script typography. All the more we’re delighted to see more contributions with text using other scripts. Today alone we added projects featuring Cyrillic, Devanagari, Hangul, and Japanese …

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 23/06/2022

On the home page today: Florida for Bergman t.co/ILsmFkQznw ↓ Persona for St Augustine t.co/aoT2fLaUID → Persona by Bergman t.co/rfn8pKn0tv t.co/zErUDD2Brz

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 01/02/2022

Last night, Fonts In Use hit the 20,000 Uses milestone. Everyone who contributed work to the site made this possible. Thank you! We do not have an extensive blog post on the subject but we do have this 20,000 set in Bauhaus Prisma: fontsinuse.com/uses/41306/20-000-me…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 03/01/2022

Now rounding things off with a look on Gemma, Nicola Russo’s other typeface design published with Mecanorma. Gemma basically is the missing lowercase of Neo Prisma, with the center gap filled in. fontsinuse.com/typefaces/46678/gemm…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 03/01/2022

Happy New Year! We’re kicking off 2022 with a batch of Neo Prisma, a multiline face by Italian designer Nicola Russo, issued as rubdown type by Mecanorma in 1972. fontsinuse.com/typefaces/32798/neo-…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 19/12/2021

“Fuck War.” set in tightly-spaced Franklin Gothic, followed by a field of lines for signatures. The first two signees are the poster’s designers, Billy Apple and Robert Coburn. @DesignMuseum #FontSunday #autographs fontsinuse.com/uses/30011/fuck-war-…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 10/12/2021

If you use @DuckDuckGo (and if you don’t use a Google alternative, maybe it’s time) you can search Fonts In Use with a “bang”. Just type: !fiu Thanks to whoever submitted this to DDG!

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 16/11/2021

The Andersons “helped to cement Eurostile’s reputation as the go-to science fiction typeface.” James Millner takes a look at the futuristic type used in the 60s/70s British TV series UFO, Captain Scarlet, and Thunderbirds. t.co/HprjpJbLjP t.co/CggBhL0HR8

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 16/10/2021

Our continuing sponsor @djrrb is donating part of his ad buy to The @alphabettes_org Mentorship Program who is seeking mentors. Make an impact and help someone navigate through this thing called type: www.alphabettes.org/about/mentorship

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 03/10/2021

Our Sunday batch is a love letter to Kalligraphia, a peculiar cursive that originated in Berlin in 1892 and was rediscovered in the 1960s. fontsinuse.com/typefaces/12282/kall…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 29/09/2021

@robmcdesign Here’s another, slightly better pic of the Galileo title page: www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 28/07/2021

@lubalincenter @Lett_Arc Scratch that, Einhorn came later (1980) and looks different. Probably a photo version of Salut (but not Fotostar’s).

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 04/07/2021

@soundclamp At the moment, the earliest documented Use in our collection is on a dust jacket from around 1930: fontsinuse.com/uses/39074/the-silen…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 21/06/2021

Roslyn Gothic Bold was used on dozens of Philip K. Dick paperbacks, building a typographic identity for the master of dystopian fiction. fontsinuse.com/uses/40764/philip-k-…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 17/06/2021

🤔 Hidden message in this week’s thumbnails on fontsinuse.com?

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 20/05/2021

Over the last 12 months we published 3,000+ uses of 1,000+ typefaces. That’s 8+ uses/day! Most of these are community contributions, all carefully moderated by our paid staff. This would not be possible without our Core Sponsors who just renewed their support for another year…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 24/03/2021

Fun to see all these Typositor operators come out of the woodwork and have a mini reunion in our comments section. fontsinuse.com/uses/15950/vgc-photo…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 01/03/2021

Our thanks to @djrrb for his continued support of Fonts In Use. Today’s release, Job Clarendon, an extensive variable family designed with @EephusLeague, is worth the price of a yearlong @fontofthemonth membership all on its own! djr.com/font-of-the-month-club

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 10/02/2021

Our thanks to @readymag for supporting us over the last 3 months. Creating a web project? Their design tool offers 3,000+ free fonts and allows you to fine-tune most font parameters. readymag.com/?utm_source=fontsinuse…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 07/02/2021

Nick Curtis made a revival of Turtle named Turtellini NF. Designer Tom Brown put this digital version to striking use for the Island Issue of DestinAsian magazine. fontsinuse.com/uses/36913/destinasi…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 07/02/2021

Turtle is our font of the day on fontsinuse.com. Designed by Bob Newman (Frankfurter, Zipper, Data 70, Pump), it was issued by Letraset in 1971. 🐢 fontsinuse.com/typefaces/100787/tur…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 13/01/2021

@HoeflerCo @ultrasparky Arguably my favorite customization, though: Orange peel Calypso! fontsinuse.com/uses/17072/cilia-ort…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 13/01/2021

@HoeflerCo @ultrasparky I also love how this solidified version starts to resemble a drunken Choc (Choc au vin?). fontsinuse.com/uses/17024/talking-h…

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 03/01/2021

@isoletters Finally, Half Full NF is loosely based on Fette Glass-Antiqua (1913).

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 03/01/2021

@isoletters Also, Bernhard-Antiqua fett (1911) and extrafett (1924). The latter is available in digital form. fontsinuse.com/typefaces/7239/bernh…

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