FontsInUse

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Type at work in the real world. Fonts In Use is an independent archive of typography.

#fonts #typefaces #typography #GraphicDesign

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eWalthert, to random
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Some lettering highlighting in Vannes

GARENNE CONEMA mural with geometric sans art nouveau lettering and fitting geometric illustrations.
Friperic 👽 Coiffeur, combining sixties hippy lettering with alien gray had.
VAMEA lingerie shop, bronze on gray, with elegant looped letters.

FontsInUse,

@eWalthert It’s all fonts! (directly or indirectly)

FontsInUse,

@eWalthert You’re welcome! Vaméa probably is a font, too, but I failed to find it – too many of those quirky serifs.

Some folks use “lettering” as an umbrella term for all things involving letters (with type being a subcategory), and that’s fair. And some of the examples fall under what we tag as “lettering derived from typeface”, a.k.a. fonts in indirect use. https://fontsinuse.com/tags/853/lettering-derived-from-typeface

FontsInUse,

@jerry1970 Stephen’s article covers lettering vs. type and font vs. typeface. He also has a useful diagram (from a whole book) about type anatomy terms like serif, see https://typeanatomy.com/post/640694338958000129/type-anatomy-in-six-letters-ever-since-the-book
More about Latin type anatomy by Typomil https://typomil.com/anatomy/index.html and @elliotjaystocks https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/introducing_type/an_overview_of_latin_type_anatomy

Unlike font and typeface, “font-face” is not a term commonly used to discuss type. Rather, it’s exclusively used in CSS to specify fonts in websites:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face

FontsInUse, to Typefaces

Over the past eight days, we have published 80 new Uses. Among the featured are 38 that weren’t represented in the collection before.

The debutants include brand new releases like Choppin, Euchre (@Okay) and Retiler, the custom Curtis (all 2024), and the yet unreleased Turist. The oldest newbie is Fuchs Space Age (c.1969).

There are sans, serif, slab, script, stencil, mono, rounded, pixel, eroded and more. See them all at https://fontsinuse.com

FontsInUse, to random

Want a classic 1970s ad? Set a sentence or two in big Carnase type. Space it tight, not touching. Center over an image. Done!
https://fontsinuse.com/sets/15499/big-sentence-ad
https://typo.social/@FontsInUse/112072800004962039

Scan of an ad with the headline, “Smirnoff… the light drink that’s heavy.” In the background is an image of two people facing each other over a class of Smirnoff vodka.
Scan of an ad with the headline, “NOT JUST ANOTHER CASLON.” At the bottom is “LSC CASLON” and the LSC logo.
Scan of an ad with the headline, “In your wallet, you’ll know it’s right.” Below is an image of a wallet containing photos of two cars. Small text and the Pinto logo is at the bottom.

FontsInUse, to Typefaces

Over the past week, we have added uses for 18 that weren’t represented in the collection before. Here’s the debutants (1/2):

AC Affix (2024) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/233089/ac-affix
Aelyn (2021) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/183804/aelyn
BDR Mono (1999) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/155422/bdr-mono
Feather Bold (@krista 2019) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/233362/feather-bold
Goga (2023) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/233235/goga
Hexadecimal (c.2019) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/231418/hexadecimal
Imperial Script (2003) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/21324/imperial-script-leuschke
Kit Sans & Rounded (2023) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/230879/kit-sans

FontsInUse,

@Luke No, that’s an exclusive typo.social service! 😉
What you can do on the site is visit the typeface page and check for Use count = 1.

FontsInUse, to RSS

Did you know we offer RSS feeds for nearly any Use category? That means you can track Uses in any format, topic, tag, or set; Uses by a designer; or Uses in a location. Just check the footer on any category page.

FontsInUse, to random

Staff pick:
Detlef Behr used T-Star Mono Round for a stamp commemorating : https://fontsinuse.com/uses/45475/sophie-scholl-stamp
The student and anti-Nazi political activist was murdered 81 years ago.

FontsInUse, to Fonts

In memoriam Betty Davis, who died two years ago in February 2022. Here’s the cover of her 1974 album, “They Say I’m Different”:
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.

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onpaperwings, to random
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I know this is an extremely niche post and only a few people will know or even care, but HOW can the world’s best watch company, Patek Philippe, make amazing watches with incredible technical prowess and then just phone it in on the typography on the dial?!

Truly the most 🤢 watch dial in my opinion and an affront to their entire catalogue of beautiful watches.

Patek Philippe World Time 5231G Enamel Dial 18K White Gold watch with very boring and possibly artificially condensed all-caps serif type.
Patek Philippe World Time 5231J Enamel Dial 18K Yellow Gold watch with ugly typography around the dial.
A green Patek Philippe World Time 5930P Chronograph Platinum Green Dial watch with cheap-looking, san-serif typography.

FontsInUse,

@tphinney @onpaperwings @armstrong It’s Lucida Calligraphy. https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/12099/lucida-calligraphy

FontsInUse, to Typography

Throwback Thursday:
Ten years ago, we published “The Story of Our Friend, the Fat Face.” Join Jennifer Kennard on her journey back to a time when serifs were Antique, sans serifs were Grotesque, and extra bold faces were Fat ☞ https://fontsinuse.com/uses/5578/the-story-of-our-friend-the-fat-face

FontsInUse, to random

Phil Baines, 1958–2024.

The English designer, teacher, and author inspired many people in the type and lettering communities, and will be sorely missed. See some of his typographic works: https://fontsinuse.com/designers/971/phil-baines

Photo by Catherine Dixon

FontsInUse, to GraphicDesign

Tag: diagonal division
https://fontsinuse.com/tags/22047/diagonal-division

Designs with a layout that is divided diagonally. Known in heraldry as party per bend ╲ or party per bend sinister ╱

FontsInUse, to Typefaces

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!

Image: Art Deco Display Alphabets, Solotype/Dover, 1982 (https://archive.org/details/artdecodisplayal0000unse/page/90/mode/2up).

#ArtDeco #Typefaces #Fonts #BabyTeeth #Solotype

FontsInUse, to Fonts

Staff pick:
Studio MPLS designed the #logo and #packaging for Strange Lands, a #gin distillery in Trois-Rivières, Quebec.

The #fonts in use are Crayonette DJR (@djrrb) and Corfe (Beasts of England), supported by LHF Egyptian (Letterhead Fonts) and Jeff Levine’s Series A Signage JNL.
More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/56181/strange-lands-gin

#FontsInUse #typefaces #typography

FontsInUse, to Fonts

Congrats, HvD Fonts! Brandon Grotesque joins Club 💯: it’s now represented with 100+ Uses on @FontsInUse.

https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/37/brandon-grotesque?order=most-liked

Did you know it’s the 14th typeface design from the digital age to reach this mark?

FontsInUse, to random

Let them who are without sin cast the first font.

FontsInUse, to random

Signal is an informal script typeface from the 1930s. @opentype is currently running a campaign to crowdfund a faithful digitization of all three weights, plus a variable version, which will be made available for free.

We just added a number of uses of Signal, from Germany, the USA, and the Netherlands – together with in-use examples for similar scripts from that period such as Mammut and Energos. Have a look: https://fontsinuse.com/search/advanced?v=2&match0=all&artwork-date0=before-1940&typefaces0=7245,32268,31764,32713,32267

Luke, to Typography
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Penny Farthing is an incredible interlock-style typeface with plenty a ligatures for your designery needs:

https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/39241/penny-farthing

FontsInUse,

@Luke @iestynx Mathieu Triay presented his in-progress digitization at @Typographics 2021, providing insight into the challenges in adapting it to OpenType. Not sure about its status and availability.

FontsInUse, to Fonts

Over the past days, we have published more than 25 new uses of with interlocking letterforms. https://fontsinuse.com/tags/10566/interlocking-letterforms

The examples include film titles and posters, record and book covers, food packaging and more. They range from 1961 to 2023, and from Brazil to Greece and the Philippines.

See all uses of the featured fonts by Headliners, Filmotype, PLINC, Lettergraphics, House Industries, @typodermic, and PintassilgoPrints: https://fontsinuse.com/search/advanced?v=2&match0=all&typefaces0=230949,40498,125579,144046,28096,29098,28977,202766,115266,161117,126972,91899,125578

FontsInUse, to Fonts

Staff pick:
Gretel’s of Mountain Hardwear features a series of custom by Andrea Trabucco-Campos & Fabiola Mejía, a feat. script caps based on Excoffon’s Mistral, Vincent Chan’s upcoming Quadrant, and, on the website, Greg Gazdowicz’s Roboto Serif.
More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/56114/mountain-hardwear-rebrand-and-seek-wilder-pat

FontsInUse,

The custom Hardwear comes in four flavors: Display, Round+Sharp, Round, and Sharp, each in five weights. One source of inspiration was a 19th-century wood typeface that, just like the nut in the logo, combines angular outer with round inner contours (see Ancient Gothic https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/219583/ancient-gothic-wood).

Source: https://gretelny.com/mountain-hardwear

Detail of a type specimen for the wood typeface Nº 205 (and the lighter and narrower Nº 119), issued by H. W. Caslon & Cie, Paris, in 1900. Source: Gretel https://gretelny.com/mountain-hardwear

FontsInUse,

@ronanmcd But is the brand really built on a single typeface? The initial post lists four different ones. Also, the custom typeface comes in twenty different styles, some of which are much less penetrating. See e.g. “MOUNTAIN” in the logo, that’s also Hardwear. Or the menu on the website: https://www.mountainhardwear.com/seekwilderpaths.html

FontsInUse, to chicago

#Metra is the commuter rail system in #Chicago’s metropolitan area. Every month, their #tickets feature a new design. 🚇 🎟️

@fhardwig took a look at the #typefaces used in 1990 and 1991: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/55722/metra-tickets-1990-1991

Featuring scans from the great collection by Nicholas Rougeux (C82). #ephemera #FontsInUse #typography #1990s

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