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Last Notes npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use The following issue tallies the typefaces actually *used* by advertisements in 30 representative magazines and newspapers. https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/724/322/008/702/608/original/9912dcbaf9141675.jpeg https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/724/322/297/385/237/original/7cd627c3bab3c8ad.jpeg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Staff pick: The Philadelphia Museum of Art @nprofile…8u5a reimagined their visual identity together with Gretel. They commissioned Ryan Bugden @nprofile…syrg with the design of a custom typeface, Fairmount Serif. It’s supported by a vernacular type palette “inspired by Philadelphia’s rich visual texture of storefronts, street vendors, and murals.” See more: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/73911/philadelphia-museum-of-art-identity #PhiladelphiaMuseumOfArt #Philadelphia #museums #FontsInUse #fonts npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use We’d like to thank the good folks of @nprofile…qxm2 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. #fonts #ads #FontsInUseSponsors https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/521/381/602/490/341/original/e109b68efed6f55f.png npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…0xjm More Casio typography: https://fontsinuse.com/tags/28588/casio npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…rpac 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 npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Over the past seven days, we published Uses submitted by a whopping sixty (60!) different contributors. https://fontsinuse.com The projects show typographic designs made in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, South Korea, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. Typefaces that were featured for the first time include: Befoil, Bootzy TM, Chardon, Conman, Faro, ATF Franklin Gothic, Helion, AF Leiter, Leticea Bumstead, Mastadoni, Mont-Saint-Michel, Parkinsans, Phanitalian (c.1872!), Ramboia, FF Reminga, TT Rationalist, Sundose, Supercooper, Tuborg Grotesque & Serif, and West Cooper Nouveau. A big thanks to our diverse community. We ❤️ you! npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use 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 npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Staff pick: Poster series for the Centre de Création industrielle (CCI, 1969–71), designed by Jean Widmer (contributed by Stéphane Darricau): https://fontsinuse.com/uses/29710/centre-de-creation-industrielle-poster-series The French-Swiss graphic designer died 1 February 2026 at the age of 96. RIP. #JeanWidmer #RIP #posters #GraphicDesign #DesignHistory https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/006/483/850/826/741/original/e64beff3e8464d9f.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…ale9 ♥️ Freda Sack‘s Victorian! https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/3994/victorian npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Staff pick: “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 #FontsInUse #fonts #typefaces https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/945/465/230/095/482/original/d265b4bed2b6ba78.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Staff pick: “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 @nprofile…gxd9 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. #FontsInUse #fonts #typefaces https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/933/798/803/868/636/original/220984c6c041a84a.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…j074 You might try via @nprofile…zfly. npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…9z7k Sorry for delivering the bad news. If you want to stick to the bold inline theme, here are some alternatives: • Battling https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/45747/battling-titling • Oskar https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/39899/oskar-inline • Baro https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/218696/baro-indian-type-foundry • Specter https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/47707/specter-inline • Cenzo Flare https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/247216/cenzo-flare-inline • Zamenhof https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/580/zamenhof • Neuwelt https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/103688/ff-neuwelt-inline • Zico https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/42238/zico-display • Pim https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/246132/pim-inline … and, from Czech foundry Superior Type, • Hrot https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/89097/hrot-inline See also the Related Typefaces linked on those pages. npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Looking for alternatives to Gill Kayo? Here’s a selection of nine contemporary typefaces inspired – to varying degrees – by the wacky 1930s heavyweight. They were all released in the past ten years. #typefaces #fonts #ultrabold #extrabold https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/884/033/046/622/701/original/51f8a3eec2389a95.png npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use RIP Bob Weir. https://fontsinuse.com/tags/31577/grateful-dead #GratefulDead #BobWeir #typography #fonts npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Gill Kayo joins Club 💯 Initially dubbed “Sans Double Elefans” and later known as Gill Sans Ultra Bold, the heavyweight extension from 1936 wasn’t always loved: its designer* disowned it, thinking of it as an “absurd misconception”, and British typographer Robert Harling characterized it as “the most horrendous and blackguardly of these display exploitations”. Gill Kayo (as in K.O. 🥊) found its fans when extremer styles became fashionable in the 1970s. In fact, 35 out of the 100 Uses now documented on Fonts In Use date from that decade. See ’em all: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/7273/gill-kayo *) A horrendous and blackguardly character himself, ICYDK: https://www.thefrontispiece.com/blog/2018/1/16/when-is-times-up-coming-for-eric-gill #FontsInUse #fonts #typography https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/865/036/518/012/568/original/1d058b6b3c2e761d.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Staff pick: De Situatie 2 is a book with ten texts selected from the Dutch literary platform’s annual writing competition, designed by All Sizes & Céline Hurka. Each of the emerging writers has been paired with an unreleased typeface by an upcoming type designer. Several of the fonts were made as student projects, with many of them being recent creations from the @nprofile…at0k program at @nprofile…4ruk. The pairings: Khadija Elberdai & @nprofile…40yp Remmelt Bot & Mălin Neamțu Mylène Delfos & @Kaat Lennart Bolwijn & Huw Williams Ivana Kalaš & Luka Appelberg Merle Findhammer & Tina Božan Sanne Morssink & Nóra Békés Charlotte Beerda & Luboslav Boyanov Zaban Razdar & Andrea Hayek Christina van Egmond & @nprofile…ale9 ➽ https://fontsinuse.com/uses/74330/de-situatie-2 #FontsInUse #fonts #typography https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/860/662/576/850/750/original/22bb085fc02ee7e2.mp4 npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…l0j5 That’s Americana Dreams https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/246662/sf-americana-dreams … a 1990s freebie apparently inspired by the connected letterforms of chrome emblems: https://chromeography.com/ npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use For your typographic holiday reading, here’s @nprofile…9r6z on a songbook with Christmas carols produced by artists of the Werkstatt Haus zum Fürsteneck … in 1940: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/11409/lieder-zur-weihnachtszeit-1940 “As soon as one starts reading, one is painfully reminded that the heyday of this workshop in the tradition of the Arts and Crafts movement coincided with Nazism, and that its members allowed those in power to coopt their talents for propaganda purposes. As beautiful as Claudius and the two-colored musical notation might be, the joy is spoiled by the content which is drenched in the unholy zeitgeist.” #FontsInUse #typography #Christmas #Nazism https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/774/831/637/600/695/original/87a749393aafdcfa.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…tfnl ITC Tiffany Heavy. That glyph can be found in the Letraset adaptation and in Bitstream’s digitization. ITC’s only has it in the Italic. npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Staff pick: Issue no. 11 of Mosaïque magazine investigates how the music industry protects perpetrators of sexist and sexual violence. For the title, “La fabrique du silence”, art director Alexandre Créquer used the Thin weight of his own Mosa. 🔒 More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/72283/mosaique-magazine-no-11-la-fabrique-du-silenc #FontsInUse #fonts #typefaces https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/745/633/856/956/131/original/caae875308d9c851.png npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Staff pick: “Readings of the Archive” is a book about Argentinian architect Amancio Williams (1913–1989) published by the Canadian Centre for #Architecture in partnership with Spector Books. Design studio Our Polite Society used two of their own typefaces: the monospaced OPS Favorite and the newly released OPS And Ever, a proportional update and continuation of the latter. Its Ultra weight that’s used on the cover is still unreleased. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/73378/amancio-williams-readings-of-the-archive #FontsInUse #typography #BookDesign https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/700/526/138/351/207/original/b166144c5e4a13ac.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Goodbye, Jimmy Cliff. https://fontsinuse.com/tags/14763/jimmy-cliff #JimmyCliff #RIP #reggae #FontsInUse #fonts npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use GT Walsheim join Club 💯! Noël Leu’s “friendly but precise” sans (Grilli Type) with the characteristic G has crossed the mark of one hundred Uses in the #FontsInUse Collection. Inspired by 1930s lettering of Swiss poster designer Otto Baumberger, GT Walsheim was first released in a single style in 2009, and gradually expanded to eight weights plus obliques. In 2014, Leu unlocked Cyrillic support with the help of Mirco Schiavone. The 2017 revision added condensed styles. https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/7622/gt-walsheim npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…wj0g Cover art by John Alcorn: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/41071/astrological-revelations-about-you-by-sydney- npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…jqun Not that we know of. But we’re certainly open for such a submission! Are you interested? If not, maybe @nprofile…l45t – 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 npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…k6uf It’s Matthew Carter’s Shelley Script: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/27836/shelley-script https://mastodon.social/deck/@[email protected] /115501050166591898 npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…r3x6 More about Studio Hollenstein, their fonts for phototypesetting, and in-use examples thereof: https://fontsinuse.com/foundry/1445/hollenstein npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…r3x6 Albert Hollenstein (1930–1974) first drew Brasilia as a lowercase-only design. Albert Boton (1932–2023) then added the capitals. https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/32823/brasilia The two Alberts also worked together on Eras. The slightly inclined sans arguably became the most successful typeface created at Hollenstein – not least because it was later adopted by ITC. https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/1745/eras https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/488/044/398/727/790/original/a9abb77f5bfb04df.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use In 1941, Linotype updated this booklet as “The Readability of Type” and added 1937–1941 to the table. https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/477/703/927/586/780/original/428ee4f149186a55.jpeg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use In 1935, Linotype published “The Legibility of Type” to promote their Legibility Group typefaces, among other things. This table lists the Linotype faces used by winners of AIGA’s “Fifty Books” award, 1924–36. Source: https://archive.org/details/Mergenthaler1935TheLegibilityOfType/page/36/mode/2up https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/477/700/431/918/280/original/f72f2d4449ab9ab6.png npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Staff pick: Forum Neues Wetter was a series of talks about #climate, soil, and participation in Grimma, Germany. For the design of the poster and program flyer, Wolfgang Schwärzler @nprofile…yzc0 combined amorphous lettering with Gamuth (@nprofile…q5l7) and the upcoming Friedl (Camelot Typefaces). More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/72909/forum-neues-wetter #FontsInUse #typography #fonts #typefaces https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/463/144/995/488/449/original/435cb204ef086cdb.jpeg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…9hq6 A striking wordmark indeed! Not a font though, but custom drawn. Among fonts, I struggle to find anything that comes close. The left-leaning Alias Lily has a vaguely similar feel. https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/462/734/752/880/351/original/4ace7bbf9340a196.png npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…ag55 @nprofile…lzjn A bit more background on Stefan-George-Schrift (a.k.a. St-G-Schrift): https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/244656/st-g-schrift npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…7a5w ♥ @nprofile…pqxh just posted another one, for The World Goes On: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/72621/the-world-goes-on-by-laszlo-krasznahorkai npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use As we mentioned in our June blog post (https://fontsinuse.com/uses/63903/fonts-in-use-is-not-active-on-instagram), we’re gearing up to send the first issue of our email newsletter. You can subscribe here: https://fontsinuse.com/newsletter Or check the box on your account settings page: https://fontsinuse.com/user/settings Don’t have an account yet? It lets you do stuff like save likes, create sets, and create a custom “Stream” of Typefaces, Foundries, Type Designers, and Users you want to follow. npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…3ld6 The typeface used on the Tom Petty label is VariTyper’s Sans Serif: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/202222/sans-serif-varityper Here’s a specimen: https://archive.org/details/varityper_typefaces_1967/page/n215/mode/2up?view=theater More about the Varityper: https://fontsinuse.com/foundry/4153/varityper npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…3ld6 Yes! The tag you are looking for is “record labels (stickers)”. We currently have at least 260 examples documented: https://fontsinuse.com/tags/2490/record-labels-stickers npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…p4d8 Ringlet! 😍 https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/7581/ringlet npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…06lu Mmmmmmh! Bottleneck, Stan Free, Astral … incl. some DIY language extensions 😻https://fontsinuse.com/sets/7980/diy-language-extensions npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Staff pick: The catalog for the “Faits divers” exhibition at MAC VAL was designed by Félicité Landrivon (brigadecynophile). She used @nprofile…5ve8’s KTF Rublena, an interpretation of “the most used black grotesk on the ex-USSR terrain”. Other #FontsInUse include two more #typefaces by Kyiv Type Foundry that are based on metro station signs in the Ukrainian capital, @nprofile…9wyq’s Exposure and @nprofile…5pq9’s Transducer → https://fontsinuse.com/uses/65238/faits-divers-exhibition-catalog #Typography #BookDesign npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…8g5d Thank you! You can find all items designed by Harry Volk Jr. Art Studio under this link: https://fontsinuse.com/designers/12201/harry-volk-jr-art-studio This includes 16 volumes of their Clip Books of Line Art, ranging from 1955 to 1984. It’s a treasure trove for tracing the trends in display type in the US. The booklets were all scanned and kindly shared by Bart Solenthaler, who maintains the The Bart&Co. Historic Clip Art Collection on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bartsol/albums/72157627595663028/ npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…06lu Zipper! A Letraset classic. https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/31312/zipper npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use 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.) https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/921/675/932/829/053/original/40796fdf7ceee0e6.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Happy #WorldBrainDay to those who cerebrate! 🧠 https://fontsinuse.com/tags/586/brains #FontsInUse #brain #brains https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/896/876/442/507/998/original/dcf6411fc9bdde9c.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use 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, Terza Display, and Tid came out in the past 12 months. Yet again others are yet unreleased (EB George) or proprietary (Haut-Bailly, TR Supply Gaskessel, Sommerro Sans). #FontsInUse https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/891/157/727/620/170/original/a12a20f160d64aa2.png npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use As for the other winning typefaces in Chartpak’s 1986 competition: so far we’ve documented Uses of Judy Pearsall’s Truffles https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/41770/truffles and Steven Fabian’s Broken English. https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/94233/broken-english npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…rnt9 @nprofile…qx50 Frank didn’t stop at Bernadette! npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…rnt9 @nprofile…qx50 Colleague, not family. https://www.kabk.nl/en/teachers/frank-blokland npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use LZH1 is a splattery #typeface designed by #LizabethBrenner. Letraset competitor #Chartpak selected it as a winner in their 1986 competition and produced it for dry transfer lettering. Starting in 1989, it was used by hardcore punk band #Integrity. Rafael Nascimento documented this long-time Use: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/69814/integrity-album-art-and-logotype-1989-1995 … which inspired him to do a digital revival of LZH1, under the name Integrity. #WomenInType #FontsInUse #fonts #AlbumCover #BandLogo #HardcorePunk #hardcore #punk https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/881/177/033/226/550/original/9441d0edb91ac728.jpg https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/881/212/723/437/827/original/005fe8171aaba276.jpg https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/881/229/556/709/303/original/d6d3007ba503e9df.jpeg https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/881/253/319/749/560/original/e2d4ecb1773c358b.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Staff pick: “Rock, Paper, Scissors” is an exhibition currently shown at Helsinki’s Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. For the typography of the catalog, designers Tino Nyman and Tytti Halonen used Aether Mono (DDOTT), Phonic & Phonic Mono (Schick Toikka) and Exposure Italic (@nprofile…9wyq): https://fontsinuse.com/uses/68651/rock-paper-scissors-exhibition-catalog #FontsInUse #BookDesign #fonts https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/873/888/509/995/922/original/2d7015569c510fd2.jpeg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…a5lr Feature’s Display Extrabold style is reminiscent of Times Modern, a display variant of Times New Roman – which is best known for #Suhrkamp’s paperback covers designed by #WillyFleckhaus in the 1970s: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/10665/times-modern npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Staff pick: Filmoteca d’Estiu is a summer film festival that takes place in the Spanish city of València. Local studio Fase designed the graphics for last year’s edition, using @nprofile…a5lr’s Feature as the main typeface. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/68590/filmoteca-d-estiu-2024 #FontsInUse #film #typography https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/861/994/437/490/682/original/7ef2ef9c37bc0179.jpeg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Fonts In Use is not active on Instagram. We’ve abandoned problematic platforms, embraced ethical alternatives, and survived to talk about it. More here: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/63903/fonts-in-use-is-not-active-on-instagram https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/858/068/129/149/133/original/903f7d2a803d4df6.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Are you into Tom Wolfe? Book cover design? Funky typefaces dating from the 1840s to the 2020s? Then head over to https://fontsinuse.com/tags/14935/tom-wolfe @nprofile…pqxh cleared out his drafts about books by the American author and journalist. #TomWolfe #BookCovers #FontsInUse #fonts https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/850/252/547/702/945/original/57f346ed0a29ff3a.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…y3n4 The digitization by Archivio Tipografico was used for “Bice Lazzari: Modernist Pioneer” in 2022. I don’t think it was released. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/46151/bice-lazzari-modernist-pioneer npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…rlpj The idea of selling in-progress fonts is probably as old as retail fonts. In the comments to the very first future font in use ft. Eckmannpsych, @nprofile…pqxh showed a c.1900 specimen for Eckmann. In it, Rudhard’sche Gießerei proudly lists early adopters who bought the type before it was officially released, and before the style (and possibly size) range was complete: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/20532/purple-haze-all-in-my-eyes#comment-616122 npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…rlpj Their Lab definitely came earlier. Let’s say Future Fonts were the first to put the in-progress idea front and center, with things like version notes incl. roadmap and status bars, public comments with user feedback and requests, journal posts about the process, and progressive pricing. npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Gongrats to our friends at @nprofile…g5gz! 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 npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Staff pick: Railtrack and Network Rail identity and signs In the latest installment of his series concerned with #railway #typography in the UK, James Millner takes a look at the signs used since 1998. They feature a custom #typeface named Brunel, developed by Freda Sack and David Quay. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/68927/railtrack-and-network-rail-identity-and-signs #FontsInUse #PublicTransport #fonts #TrainStations #signs #UnitedKingdom #Britain https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/816/627/994/483/222/original/29848db1f5894afd.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Happy #CanadaDay! 🇨🇦 Celebrate by exploring 760+ examples of #typography from the Great White North: https://fontsinuse.com/search/advanced?v=2&match0=all&locations0=38 #FontsInUse #CanadaDay2025 #Canada #GraphicDesign https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/777/615/241/845/953/original/792a40a8376d7542.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Walk the Line was an exhibition at Zeughaus Teufen, Switzerland, featuring works by Johann Ulrich Fitzi (1798–1855) and Klaus Lutz (1940–2009). Bänziger Hug and Kasper-Florio designed the poster and booklet, contrasting the monolinear NEXT Mono (François Rappo, 2017) with the calligraphic Vivaldi (Friedrich Peter, 1966): https://fontsinuse.com/uses/67307/walk-the-line-at-zeughaus-teufen #FontsInUse #fonts #typefaces npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Thanks to Elizabeth Goodspeed at @nprofile…yhmy 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). npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…2g36 Chromatic Etruscan No. 3 is one of the ornamented variants of Etruscan. It was patented Aug. 9, 1870, by William H. Page. More info: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/107300/etruscan-ornamented npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Staff pick: Artist #JesseStecklow used RT Alias (@nprofile…dr9a) and Stempel Garamond for the catalog to his Terminal exhibition at mumok Vienna. For the title, he overlayered two #typefaces, Cobra and Larish Alte. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/67311/jesse-stecklow-terminal-exhibition-catalog #typography #fonts #FontsInUse npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Staff pick: The #monospaced gc16 by Bold-Decisions is used in the identity of 12 Matcha. Design by Base New York 🍵 https://fontsinuse.com/uses/68188/12-matcha #FontsInUse #fonts #matcha npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Aldo Novarese’s Stop lends itself to being customized. In 2008, @nprofile…xe62 started a Flickr group dedicated to in-use examples of the display #typeface in which the letters have been customized: https://www.flickr.com/groups/customstop/ #FontsInUse has a growing collection of #CustomStop as well. The latest addition is a sticker for The Pachinko Factory, contributed by @nprofile…lfwc: “The customization […] is delightful … especially the scattering of little #pachinko balls as design elements.” https://fontsinuse.com/uses/69205/the-pachinko-factory https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/727/920/648/016/795/original/ca8ef90761dfaa8a.jpeg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…rnt9 @nprofile…06lu Peignot, Edelgotisch, or Ed Interlock – which Barbarella wore it best? https://fontsinuse.com/tags/39490/barbarella npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Happy 50th anniversary, #JAWS! #StevenSpielberg’s thriller film was first shown in American theaters #OTD in 1975. See the #FontsInUse for a movie poster as well as for the book covers of Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel 🏄🦈 https://fontsinuse.com/tags/4279/jaws npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use From 1929 to 1961, the Inland Printer ran a regular “Typographic Scoreboard” column tallying up the typefaces used on full-page ads from popular magazines such as “The Saturday Evening Post“ & “Vogue”. The author (uncredited in early editions) was J. L. Frazier, one of the 20th century’s best chroniclers of type history. We (or someone?) should put this data into graphical form showing how type rose and fell in popularity over those 30 years. Thanks, @nprofile…5r3x! https://archive.org/search?query=%22typographic+scoreboard%22&sin=TXT&sort=date npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use This Saturday, we’re commemorating Sylvester “Sly” Stewart by looking at the typography of various records by Sly & The Family Stone. The “Black genius and major innovator of funk, psychedelic soul and rock” (Reybach C) died June 9, 2025, at the age of 82. → https://fontsinuse.com/tags/20546/sly-and-the-family-stone #SlyAndTheFamilyStone #FontsInUse #AlbumCovers https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/682/726/130/642/343/original/d798b0d999f6ee11.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Fonts In Use is made possible by sponsors like Darden Studio, who has supported the project for four years now! The foundry’s latest typefaces are Gamay by Viktoriya Grabowska https://www.dardenstudio.com/gamay and Kit Rounded by Eben Sorkin and Onur Yazıcıgil https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/230880/kit-rounded. Please thank them by signing up for their newsletter! #Fonts #Ad #FontsInUseSponsors npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Luis Siquot also designed a couple of record covers. For “The Rite of Strings”, an acoustic jazz fusion album from 1995, he didn’t use his own fonts, and rather combined Retro Bold, one of the last Letraset exclusives to be produced for dry transfer lettering, with a couple of early Adobe Originals. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/69275/stanley-clarke-al-di-meola-jean-luc-ponty-the https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/671/229/859/752/487/original/e8de84b5e9a8c6cf.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use In memory of Luis Siquot (1945–2025) See his ITC Juanita in use for a book with paintings of African wildlife: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/69263/africa-an-artist-s-safari-by-fred-krakowiak #LuisSiquot #FontsInUse #fonts npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…ulz2 We did a data migration a couple days ago and there may be residual glitches, but all isolating for us here today. Any particular page? npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…esn3 The classic: Helvetica Inserat (a.k.a. Swiss 921) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/3482/helvetica-inserat A contemporary option in many weights and widths: Tusker Grotesk https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/55026/tusker-grotesk A dark charmer with flared stems: Dunkel Sans https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/90524/dunkel-sans npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use RIP #BillAtkinson (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 takes credit for designing Venice, a chancery script bitmap font. Along with #SusanKare’s designs, it was one the “City” fonts that came with the original #Macintosh. https://fontsinuse.com/type_designers/6337/bill-atkinson https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/646/593/251/744/534/original/b63c26fc60eba1e9.png npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…lfwc We get plenty of submissions, and they are coming in waves. At the moment, it can easily take 14 days before new ones are being reviewed. If it’s urgent (e.g., because it relates to a certain event), drop us a message and we’ll prioritize. In any case, you’ll get a notification once it’s up. npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Gongrats to Romie! The display serif by Margot Lévêque is now represented with 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. See it in use, often sporting its characteristic swash forms and cap ligatures: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/110622/romie *) Not counting Arial, which was co-designed by Patricia Saunders with Robin Nicholas. https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/625/249/635/984/008/original/7c6221d57418384f.png npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…s98p No, none yet! You can always put together a contribution: https://fontsinuse.com/my/uses/create But take note that apart from ITC Machine for the name, John Berg’s cover design doesn’t feature any fonts in use: virtually all the numbers are examples of lettering, not type. npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…06lu OK, we’ll join in! 🟨🟡💛 https://fontsinuse.com/search/advanced?v=2&match0=all&tags0=429&tags1=1601 #yellow #vinyl #fonts https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/551/059/710/287/272/original/598f86bc0f10d7f7.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use 2/2 Futura Black has been around since 1929, when #PaulRenner added the planar, stencil-like display style to his seminal Futura series for Bauer. You can now study 100 in-use examples dating from 1931 to 2023: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/7655/futura-black?order=most-liked #FontsInUse #FuturaBlack #fonts #typefaces https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/488/137/205/411/486/original/642407dd93d4d0a1.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use This week, not one but two #typefaces joined the exclusive Club 💯 at https://FontsInUse.com! 1/2 With ABC Favorit (2016), #Dinamo laid the cornerstone to their success story. The quirky low-contrast grotesk is now documented with one hundred applications in the #FontsInUse Collection: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/41429/abc-favorit?order=most-liked #ABCFavorit #fonts https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/488/037/153/051/746/original/1e171b1aab1aab72.png npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use New on the Blog: #StarWars 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: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/41850/star-wars-movie-posters-from-hungary #TiborHelényi #JohnLangdon #MayThe4th #MayTheFourth #StarWarsDay #FontsInUse #fonts npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Milestone unlocked: we’ve published the 30,000th Use on https://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 https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/285/981/996/882/296/original/277426255dd62831.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…qjnf That’s the Letraset classic Pump: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/1886/pump For future requests, also consider @nprofile…tnt4. npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…90r6 Dear Kai, thanks for reminding us of the upcoming milestone! 🙈 As for the first question, that would be about 4,060 accounts who made at least one published contribution. Answering the other one quickly veers into the territory of #ExistentialTypeQuestions (what is a typeface?), but to give you a number, there are 72K+ active type entities in the database, 11.7K of which are represented with at least one Use. For comparison, here are some numbers from 2018: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/20000/10000-uses-on-fonts-in-use npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Search is back! 🔎 https://fontsinuse.com npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use We’re experiencing a technical issue on our site. Search is currently broken. We’ll announce here when it’s fixed and the functionality back to normal. npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use RIP Roberta Flack https://fontsinuse.com/uses/8873/roberta-flack-quiet-fire-album-art #RobertaFlack #Typography #AlbumArt npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…00qn Yes, please send an email and we can take it from there. npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use @nprofile…00qn We offer an API for that, if that’s interesting to you. See https://djr.com/forma#in-use and https://www.swisstypefaces.com/fonts/euclid/#uses for two possible implementations. npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Staff pick: Eyja (Counter Forms, 2023) is Thy Hà’s revival of a 19th-century Modern, started at @nprofile…ahnd. Studio Dobra from Porto used the single-style typeface for Virei, a road documentary by Gustavo Imigrante. More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/65642/virei-movie-posters-titles-trailer #MoviePosters #FontsInUse #fonts #typefaces https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/036/225/426/499/533/original/88933c5548495671.jpg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use From the comments: Musing about Helvetica Medium – and specifically the larger sizes of the foundry version – with Fernando Mello, @nprofile…pqxh and Albert-Jan Pool https://fontsinuse.com/uses/64237/disco-sucks#comment-907827 #Helvetica #typefaces #fonts #typedesign https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/031/655/943/699/311/original/c69468959ca3a40b.mp4 npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use 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 npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Most in-use examples on https://fontsinuse.com show contemporary typography. But the Collection isn’t limited to recent designs! Follow this link to explore fonts in use that are 100+ years old: https://fontsinuse.com/search/advanced?v=2&match0=all&artwork-date0=before-1924 We just added three fine items from 1916, 1907, and 1889. #FontsInUse #typography #fonts #typefaces https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/666/391/956/714/785/original/126a06ac86f03718.png npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use Staff pick: Detlef Behr used T-Star Mono Round for a stamp commemorating #SophieScholl: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/45475/sophie-scholl-stamp The student and anti-Nazi political activist was murdered #OnThisDay 81 years ago. #FontsInUse https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/974/803/095/334/404/original/ef41b7712b4bf44c.png npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use RIP Betty Davis (1945–2024). Here’s the cover of her 1974 album, “They Say I’m Different”, contributed by Elise Carlton: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/34086/betty-davis-they-say-im-different-album-art-j It features what so far is our only documented use of Sini Aztec. Designed by Ron Levine, with art direction by Bill Levy and photography by Mel Dixon. Kaisik Wong designed the costume. Anthony Sini’s typeface was digitized by Jess Collins as Plinc Aztek. #FontsInUse #fonts #BettyDavis https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/946/644/722/526/839/original/15160c83f6404f1f.jpeg npub1mganxhpydrr06u6yn07ztr5xjtc5jhutnxn4fvkdlu05rwfdv9zqv9ftl3 Fonts In Use New Typeface Entry: Theda Bara https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/232222/theda-bara, an art deco style in the vein of Baby Teeth, shown by Solotype as early as 1982. Like most Solo designs, it likely originated elsewhere. More info welcome! 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