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Fonts In Use
3 weeks ago

Happy #Thanksgiving to those who celebrate!

“Poppy Gives Thanks” is a #poster designed by #MiltonGlaser for a concert by Poppy Records at #CarnegieHall in November 1969, using the Light weight of his then new Glaser Futura Stencil. More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/25437/poppy-gives-thanks

#FontsInUse #typography #fonts #stencil #poppy #turkey

Poster featuring an illustration of a turkey with a red poppy in place of its head, standing on a green ground and shown against a yellow background that becomes lighter toward the horizon. All text is shown in capital letters from Glaser Stencil Light. It reads “Poppy gives thanks / Dick Gregory / Townes Van Zandt / The Mandrake Memorial / Carnegie Hall / Wed., Nov. 26 8:30 First come, first served… $2.50”
Art Grootfontein
3 weeks ago

Amazing #fontsinuse by https://skilline.co
Branding for Alley Cat, Coffee & Cycling using my LETRAFLEX typeface.

#retrodesign #graphicdesign #graphicdesign #fontdesign

Art Grootfontein
3 weeks ago

Nice #fontsinuse!
New type experiment by the amazing Kiel Danger (https://kielm.com) using my GILWAY font.

#grafikfeed #typehype #typedesign

Fonts In Use
1 month ago

Staff pick:
TeeMa is a #Helsinki‌-based #tea house. Tino Nyman designed the visual identity, combining Panama Italic (The Temporary State) and BL Arctic (BoulevardLAB) for the logotype. Titles and information are set in Cucina neretta & corsiva (Bretagne) and Lateral (Schick Toikka). More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/56238/teemaa

#FontsInUse #typography #fonts #typefaces

TeeMaa’s logo in lowercase letters from BL Arctic, with an initial italic t from Panama. The Finnish text “Teekauppa / Teehuone” is in Lateral, the English text “Tea Shop / Tea Room” in Cucina neretta.
Fonts In Use
1 month ago

Staff pick:
Tilt is the second album by Australian dance/pop group Confidence Man.

The cover was designed by Bráulio Amado, using @benoitbodhuin’s yet unreleased Écriture, a script #typeface in three numbered styles of decreasing readability.

It’s paired with tilted letterforms from Compacta Bold and Druk Wide. There’s also a special “tilted” version with a rhombus-shaped sleeve:
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/56240/confidence-man-tilt-album-art
#FontsInUse #typography #fonts

Front cover of the vinyl release of Confidence Man’s Tilt album. The cover shows a woman in profile, with her right hand on the back of her head, against a blue background, and a man in a white low-cut suit on the phone, against a pink background. The band name runs along the left edge, in the nearly illegible Écriture, black on yellow. The album title is shown bigger at the bottom, in perspectively distorted bold, green lowercase letters. Photography by Jamie Heath. Costuming, styling and additional art direction by Janet Planet.
Back cover of the special edition of Tilt by Confidence Man, with a rhombus-shaped sleeve. The photo shows a dancing woman and a bending man, seen from behind. On the right, the track names are listed in left-leaning letterforms, black on yellow, with numbers in green circles.
Art Grootfontein
1 month ago

Amazing #fontsinuse!
The new "Chair de Poule" book series uses my BALTER SERIF #typeface for the titles.
"Chair de Poule" is the French version of Scholastic's #goosebumps series, the bestselling horror novels written by R.L. Stine.
Published in French by Bayard Editions, the collection is a huge success with over 12 million books sold in France since the launch of the first copies in the early 1990s.
#fontdesign #typedesign

Fonts In Use
1 month ago

Staff pick:
Felfel is a #festival of North African cultures in France, organized by #FondationCartier and the #InstitutDuMondeArabe. The visual identity of the first edition was designed by Brest Brest Brest, using Gaya by Raphaël de La Morinerie (WrittenShape / Out of the Dark) as the main #typeface.

More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/56670/felfel-festival-de-l-effervescence-des-cultur

#FontsInUse #typography #fonts #typefaces #NorthAfrica #Maghreb

Typographic poster for the Felfel festival that took place in July 2023, printed in red orange and purple. The title is shown at the top in italic letters. Most other text is set in roman capitals, partly center-aligned and partly on a U-shape.
Fonts In Use
1 month ago

Happy #Halloween from the @FontsInUse community! 🎃 💀 🦇
Check out https://fontsinuse.com for a night full of frights and a site full of typographic delights.

#FontsInUse #Typography #Typefaces

Details from the Fonts In Use website with three rows of five thumbnails. Fourteen images show skulls. The center image shows the cover of Seth Meyers’ children’s book, “I’m Not Scared, YOU’RE Scared!”
Fonts In Use
2 months ago

@djrrb We love it!

This probably makes the Top 3 of largest ~typographic letters documented on Fonts In Use so far … @nicksherman?

Contenders are the Tillamook Air Museum https://fontsinuse.com/uses/1713/tillamook-air-museum-world-s-largest-helvetic and this 2019 Brexit protest message https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28942/the-will-of-the-people-has-changed-andnbsp-le

See more XXL type:
https://fontsinuse.com/tags/20056/xxl-type

#FontsInUse #typography #BigType

Fonts In Use
2 months ago

Over the past days, we have published more than 25 new uses of #fonts 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 #Typography #Typefaces

Three rows of five thumbnails from the Fonts In Use homepage in October 2023, showing various examples of fonts used with interlocking letterforms. The featured typefaces include Benguiat Interlock, Ed Interlock, Safari, Filmotype Mason, Filmotype Newton, Sinzano, Benguiat Newlock, Toronado Interlock, Monza, and Filmotype Omaha.
Fonts In Use
2 months ago

Sixty years ago, in November 1963, #MauriceSendak published his now famous #ChildrensBook, Where the Wild Things Are.

Did you know that the casual letterforms on the first edition #BookCover aren’t custom drawn, but type? They stem from an obscure #font named Safari which came with numerous alternate glyphs. Patrick Concannon put together a post about the #design, and @jaykay109 tracked down the origin of the #typeface. More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/54045/where-the-wild-things-are-by-maurice-sendak-h

#FontsInUse #Typography #BookDesign

Front panel of the first edition hardcover of Where The Wild Things Are, with story and pictures by Maurice Sendak, published by Harper & Row in 1963. The typeface is the Medium Semi-Condensed style of Safari, used with alternate glyphs (see W E R A D S). Photo by PBA Galleries.
Jens Kutílek
2 months ago

New acquisition: „In the beginning“, the Genesis according to Adrian Frutiger :) Woodcuts by Frutiger, designed and typeset in metal Univers by Bruno Pfäffli. #Frutiger #Univers #Typography #BookArt #FontsInUse #MetalType

Fonts In Use
2 months ago

Speaking of octagonal wood typefaces with round counters:

The #masthead of Better Letters #Magazine @blag is based on Gothic Paneled as shown by Wm. H. Page & Co. in 1874. The letterforms were redrawn by Utile studio, who also designed the magazine using @kontour’s Utile and Dalton Maag’s Aktiv Grotesk. BLAG is “the world’s only print and online publication dedicated to #SignPainting”.

More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/50139/blag-better-letters-magazine #FontsInUse #typography #fonts #woodtype

Cover of BLAG magazine, issue 01 from summer 2002
Page from Specimens of chromatic wood type, borders, etc. manufactured by Wm. H. Page & Co., published in 1874 in Greeneville, Conn. It shows three sizes of Chromatic Gothic Paneled, printed in red and blue. The sample words are “PROWLING” (8 Line), “TIGERS” (12 Line), and “BUSH” (16 Line). Source: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_10147342_000/pages/ldpd_10147342_000_00000090.html
Fonts In Use
2 months ago

Staff pick:
Gretel’s #rebrand of Mountain Hardwear features a series of custom #fonts by Andrea Trabucco-Campos & Fabiola Mejía, a #logo 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 #typography #typefaces

Composite image from Mountain Hardwear new brand identity. On the left, the title of the current campaign “Seek Wilder Paths” in yellow caps from Hardwear Display. On the right, the logo comprised of “Mountain” set in a lighter weight from the custom font family, “Hardwear” in script caps modeled after Mistral, and a nut.
Fonts In Use
2 months ago

Staff pick:
#BookCover designer Linas Spurga Jr. makes clever use of Dudler’s circular rounds for Kosmikomiksai, a new #Lithuanian edition of #ItaloCalvino’s Cosmicomics:
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/55451/kosmikomiksai-by-italo-calvino

Franziska Weitgruber’s Dudler is inspired by lettering on a Swiss truck spotted in Val Venosta.

#FontsInUse #Typography #Fonts

The book cover shows a number of greyish planets, a comet, and other formations against a dark green noisy pattern. Above the center, the author’s name and the title, in Dudler’s italic capitals. The C and O are much wider than the other letters.
Fonts In Use
2 months ago

Staff pick:
“Marronnage. The art of breaking the chains” is an exhibition shown at the Maison de l’Amérique latine, Paris. It presents several ethnographic and cartographic missions from the 20th century, and places them in dialogue with the works of contemporary artists from #Guiana and #Suriname.

For the #typography, Arthur Calame paired his custom designed Maroni with Raphaël de La Morinerie’s upcoming Kateka and @klim’s Founders Grotesk.

More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/55679/marronnage-l-art-de-briser-ses-chaines

#FontsInUse #fonts

Photograph (by Nyima Marin) showing a series of three exhibition posters hung at the gate of the Maison de l’Amérique latine. All three show the title “Marronnage” in orange caps from the Maroni typeface, set on a curve. The first one features an escaped and gun-toting slave as depicted by European colonialists. The second poster shows a comb (© Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac), and the third one has a photograph from Nicola Lo Calzo’s Obia series (Courtesy Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris).
Fonts In Use
3 months ago

… and for Sunday we’re celebrating International Crayon(ette) Day! Featuring in-use examples of Crayon (1886), Crayonette (1889), Crayonette Open (1890), Crayonette Flair (1970s), and @djrrb’s Crayonette DJR (2017), ranging from c.1900 (Uruguay) to 2023 (Minneapolis). https://fontsinuse.com/search/advanced?v=2&match0=all&typefaces0=46968,46963,32060

#FontsInUse #Typefaces #Fonts #Typography

Detail from the Fonts In Use homepage with six thumbnails for uses of Crayon, Crayonette, and Crayonette DJR
Fonts In Use
3 months ago

This Saturday our homepage at https://fontsinuse.com was all about typography from the late #1950s and #1960s, including various uses of Thorowgood (an English #FatFace with roots in the 1820s) and Ultra Bodoni (Morris F. Benton’s tamer reworking from 1928) …

#FontsInUse #Typefaces #Fonts #Typography

Detail from the Fonts In Use homepage with thumbnails for two album covers, Jazz with a Twist (1962) and Tempestuous Trumpet (1961), and the cover of A Handbook of Electros & Casts by Stephenson Blake (!959).
Monokrom
3 months ago

#fontsinuse Satyr and Faunus for Margreth Olin’s Fedrelandet. Launched today as the Norwegian candidate for the Oscars. Graphic design by Eivind Holm Stoud Platou. #advertisement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn0M8fuWgYM

Fonts In Use
3 months ago

Staff pick:
The latest issue of CURA magazine is titled “CURA.40 Manifesto”. Designer Dan Solbach used two typefaces that both originated at #ECAL:

Cosmos is a free-style calligraphic typeface by Minjong Kim. AL Linea is Alex Lescieux’s revival of Umberto Fenocchio’s FTC Linea. More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/55221/cura-40-manifesto

#FontsInUse #Typefaces #Fonts #Typography

The scarlet red cover of CURA.40 Manifesto with black type. The front shows “CURA” in giant letters from Cosmos. The full title on the spine is set in AL Linea.
Fonts In Use
3 months ago

Talking about #Metra: did you know that the #logo uses a #typeface named Crillee?
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/55723/metra-logo-and-timetables

The italic wordmark is in use ever since the commuter rail system for the #Chicago metropolitan area got a unifying identity in 1985.

#FontsInUse #Fonts #PublicTransit #PublicTransport #Trains #Railway

The Metra logo spotted on the METX 193 in 2005. Photo by Tripp (Creative Commons CC BY) https://www.flickr.com/photos/trippchicago/810676284/
Fonts In Use
3 months ago

#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 Nick @Rougeux (C82). #ephemera #FontsInUse #typography #1990s

Two examples for Metra’s monthly ticket designs, for August and September 1990. The former is green and features Salut, a 1930s bold upright script, for the abbreviated month name. The latter is red, with Moderne Schwabacher, an early 20th-century blackletter.
Max Iorsh
3 months ago

Typographic facial hair. A logo of krav maga club in Haifa. I don't know the designer, but the font is Norse by Joel Carrouche.

סמל של מועדון קרב מגע בחיפה. לא יודע, מי עיצב אותו, אבל אהבתי את הרעיון.

#typography #fontsinuse #kravmaga

A drawing of a male face with a horned helmet. The nose and facial hair are styled with inscription "Urban Vikings".
Fonts In Use
3 months ago

Newly added:
Stingray, a twisted 3D extravaganza drawn by John S. Allen in the late 1960s for Photo-Lettering, Inc. See it in use for a book jacket and two record covers:
https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/175125/allen-stingray

#FontsInUse #Typefaces #Fonts #Typography

Book jacket for the first edition of The Stars at Noon by Denis Johnson, published by Alfred A. Knopf in September 1986. The design by R.D. Scudellari in yellow, black and orange uses Stingray in big letters, combined with Binner for the author’s name.
Black-and-white cover for Bruce Haack’s album Captain Entropy from 1974, designed by Jack Wolff using Stingray and Univers.
Fonts In Use
3 months ago

Staff pick:
Vinicius Theodoro of São Paulo-based Studio Tempo used the bubbly PicNic (Mariel·le Nils, 2022) for AMA, a Brazilian soap brand 🧼
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/54502/ama-soap-bars

#FontsInUse #Typefaces #Fonts #Typography #Soap

Photo showing about twenty boxes of soap from an angle, some lying, some standing, in alternating colors: green, orange, grey, blue. The typography is in the same color as the box, just darker, with PicNic for the brand name “AMA” and Helvetica Now for text.
Fonts In Use
3 months ago

Staff pick:
Baste (Lift Type) in use for “L’aventure en train de nuit” (“Night Train Adventure”). The e-book was designed and published by Les Others, an inspirational medium for lovers of the outdoors, travel and photography. In supporting roles, LL Catalogue (Lineto) and ABC Diatype (Dinamo):
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/54808/l-aventure-en-train-de-nuit

#FontsInUse #Typefaces #Fonts #Typography #Trains #Travel

Detail from the cover of the travel guide, with the title “L’aventure en train de nuit” and “Guide complet” shown in black caps from Baste, set center-aligned. Below, a photo of a passenger train riding at dusk, with snow-capped mountains in the back.
Fonts In Use
3 months ago

Staff pick:
Democratic Futures is a collaborative inquiry between students at Winchester School of Art, @unisouthampton, and the Parliamentary Archives.

Studio 3015 mixed Neureal (Laura Csocsán, ÉCAL) and FT88 Italic (Oriane Charvieux, @velvetyne): https://fontsinuse.com/uses/55081/democratic-futures

#FontsInUse #Typefaces #Fonts #Typography

Photo showing a white sign with black text in wide landscape format, mounted on a wooden rack and standing on grass, with a woman in front and a building in the background. The large text reads “Democratic Futures / TV Screens 09:00–17:00 / 1–8 June 2023”. The typography alternates between Neureal, a reverse-contrast sans with broken curves, and FT88 Italic, a crude bitmap typeface, sometimes even within one word.
Fonts In Use
3 months ago

Staff pick:
Café Bravo is a café and wine bar in #Montréal. Demande Spéciale designed the visual identity, using a customized version of Herbus Bold, paired with Suisse Int’l.
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/54797/cafe-bravo-montreal

#FontsInUse #Typefaces #Fonts #Typography

Photo from inside Café Bravo. On the wall, two orange signs with the menu, with black text in Suisse Int’l. The “BRAVO” logo at the bottom of the right sign is based on Herbus Bold.
Fonts In Use
4 months ago

Follow the link with the artwork date on any use page to see more #typography from that year.

Today we published a number of items designed in #1969 – including a triple about Mattel’s fortune-telling line, “Mystique”, contributed by @goodspeed:
https://fontsinuse.com/search/advanced?artwork-date0=is-1969

#FontsInUse #Fonts #Typefaces

Detail from the use page for “Mystique Astrology” on Fonts In Use, highlighting the link for the artwork date, in this case the year 1969.
Fonts In Use
4 months ago

Staff pick:
Festival der jungen Talente
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/54648/festival-der-jungen-talente-2022

Design by Katharina Landisch, using Rory King’s Orchard Linear, a monolinear script inspired by asemic writing, combined with Pangram Pangram’s grotesk Neue Montreal.
#FontsInUse #Fonts #Typefaces #Typography

Series of three posters for Festival der jungen Talente 2022. The design is vertically divided into a black left half and a colored right half: green, orange, and blue, respectively. In the bottom half, an out-of focus photograph (black/orange, black/blue, black/green). The main text on each poster is set in white and reads:
“Festival der jungen Talente / Datum 06.–15. Mai 2022 / Ausstellung Performance Installation”
Fonts In Use
5 months ago

Last week, Albert Boton, one of the preeminent French type designers of the past sixty years, died at the age of 91. We pay tribute with a series of applications of his #typefaceshttps://fontsinuse.com/type_designers/13/albert-boton

The newly added in-use examples span 57 years and feature 13 different typefaces, providing a glimpse into #AlbertBoton’s rich œuvre. Six of the #FontsInUse weren’t represented in our collection yet.

Detail from the Fonts In Use homepage with thumbnails for twelve out of thirteen newly added in-use examples featuring typefaces by Albert Boton. The names of the typefaces are Roc, Boton, Black Boton, Navy Cut, Pharaon, FF District, FF Cellini, Tzigane, Primavera, Eras, Zan, and FF Tibere.
Fonts In Use
5 months ago

Staff pick:
Secret Menu is a #magazine by Door Dash about local food culture. For the second issue about #Miami, Studio Yukiko cooked up a fourteen-course typographic feast:
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/54412/secret-menu-issue-02-miami-s-almighty-hustle

It features #fonts by @djrrb, Laura Worthington, Canada Type, @BlazeType, @sudtipos, @velvetyne, Benoît Bodhuin, Fernando Haro, Octotype, and Eliott Grunewald.

#FontsInUse #Typefaces #Typography

Spread from Secret Menu magazine, issue 2, with the start of “Well Grounded in the Magic City” with words by Naty Pascual and images by Jaya Nicely, illustrated with cherries and soft serve in a banana peel against a background with color gradients. The cross-page title features the ultrageometric Megascope interspersed with glyphs from Ed’s Market Bold Script, in yellow caps with green outline. Text is set in two columns, ragged right, in the sans serif Surt. The contributor names are in Mrs Sheppards, a bold brush script. “Greater Miami“ is added in the bold roman Marlfield. The magazine logo at the bottom pairs Jackpot with swashes and Middleton Brush.
Fonts In Use
5 months ago

Staff pick:
LB Plantes was set up to participate in responsible and sustainable #viticulture and #agriculture. For the visual identity, Toulouse-based studio Huz & Bosshard used different weights and widths of the Klub typeface family designed by @panefarre:
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/54192/lb-plantes

#FontsInUse #Typefaces #Fonts #Typography

Detail of the homepage at http://lbplantes.fr, with French text in pastel-colored stripes. All-lowercase titles are in the wide Klub 11 SemiBold. Smaller text is in Klub 08 Medium and 06 Bold.
Fonts In Use
5 months ago

Staff pick:
“We, the City. Plurality and Resistance in Berlin and Istanbul” is a book edited by Tuba İnal-Çekiç & Urszula Ewa Woźniak and published by Jovis. For the design, Sylvan Lanz made early use of his own AC Bandit, alongside Nazareno Crea’s LL Catalogue.

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/54393/we-the-city-by-tuba-inal-cekic-urszula-ewa-wo

#FontsInUse #Typefaces #Fonts #Typography

The yellow book cover has black typography, with “We,” shown very large in AC Bandit, a compressed sans with horizontal contrast. The subtitle “Plurality and Resistance in Berlin and Istanbul” and the names of the editors are shown much smaller at the bottom, in two blocks of lines set in LL Catalogue, a wide sturdy oldstyle serif.
Fonts In Use
5 months ago

“Kertész – Lartigue. Un pas de côté” is the catalog for the eponymous exhibition at Espace Richaud, Versailles, in 2023. It presents works by two pioneers of modern #photography, #JacquesHenriLartigue and #AndréKertész.

Design by Clémence Michon using Persona (@abyme) and Louize Display (@205TF).
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/54383/kertesz-lartigue-un-pas-de-cote

#FontsInUse #Typefaces #Fonts #Typography

Composite image showing covers, spines and book edges of the catalog. There are olive green and off-white versions. The names “Lartigue” and “Kertész” are shown in big capitals from the Persona typeface.
Tunera Type Foundry
5 months ago

And for the first time ever, Générale Station in use 😭 https://www.instagram.com/p/CufD2Wps85J/ #FontsInUse

Fonts In Use
5 months ago

Staff pick:
“Niki de Saint Phalle. Les années 1980 et 1990. L’art en liberté” is an exhibition shown in Les Abattoirs in Toulouse, France.

Agnès Dahan Studio designed the catalog, using ABC Maxi Round for titles and ABC Marfa for text.

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/51045/niki-de-saint-phalle-les-annees-1980-et-1990-

#NikiDeSaintPhalle #FontsInUse #Typefaces #Fonts #Typography

Detail of the front and the spine of the pink (and green) hardcover, with big black capitals from ABC Maxi Round to spell out the artist’s name. The publisher info, “Gallimard | Les Abbatoirs” is set rotated in Foundry Wilson.