Fonts In Use

@fontsinuse.com

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

Graphic of a geometric sans serif typeface in three styles: light, bold, and inline.
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
A cropped specimen of a brush script typeface in six weights.
Graphic with a large “20” and “Years of Omnes” on a colorful background.
A bar graph titled, “How do you usually discover new fonts?”. Named options include: Foundry websites Social media or blogs Foundry newsletters Third-party websites Word of mouth Books, magazines Design conferences
Screenshot from myfonts.com showing Shelley Script, a formal calligraphic script, spelling out “The Oval Office”.
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.
Cropped screenshot of fontsinuse.com showing a square image filled with script font samples. Below the image: Sponsor Petra-D Type Foundry Beautifully crafted handwritten fonts that explore the endless possibilities of hand lettering & sign-writing. Check them out!
A collage of typographic details from Black Sabbath’s first four albums, shown alongside cropped specimens of the typefaces used.
Geordi La Forge “No/Yes” meme. No: Dystopian corporate platforms. Yes: Autonomy, standards, and the Open Web.
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
A 4×3 grid with thumbnail images for twelve Uses of Romie, as shown on fontsinuse.com
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.