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My two worlds collide in this new @FontsInUse post for my rock band's new album.

Featuring type from @velvetyne @ohno @djrrb & yours truly (Big Fog Foundry)

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/67834/suped-up-suped-up-album-art-and-promo-assets

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
#FontsInUse #FuturaBlack #fonts #typefaces

Advert by the Bauersche Gießerei, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in Gebrauchsgraphik, November 1929. The copy reads:

FUTURA BLACK – der neue Schlager
Eine Auszeichnungs-Schrift zu unseren erfolgreichen Futura-Schriften. Die Auftraggeber bevorzugen den Drucker, der ihnen das Beste bietet von modernen Schriften für zeitgemäße Drucksachen • Verlangen Sie die Vorprobe unserer Futura Black.

Translation:
FUTURA BLACK – the new hit
A display typeface to our successful Futura typefaces. Clients prefer the printer who offers them the best of modern typefaces for contemporary printed matter • Ask for an advance showing of our Futura Black.

Scan courtesy of IADDB: https://iaddb.org/?query=search=ccobjectid=3615893&showtype=record

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
#ABCFavorit #fonts

Page from a 2016 specimen for Favorit, back when the family comprised a mere four weights (plus Underline styles) with a Latin Extended character set only. Today, Favorit is a large family with five weights and many weights, Mono styles, and support for Greek, Cyrillic, Hangul, Arabic, and Hebrew.
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20160416045608/http://www.abcdinamo.com/media/attachments/W1siZiIsIjU2ZTMwZDZmNDQ2OTZlMWY2YjAwMDA0MiJdXQ/Favorit_Charactersheet.pdf?sha=496561b744d3f596

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

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Music themed NEWS LTR №16 for your eyes, in your mails, if you happen to subscribe (to the LettError News LTR). But you can always read the archives. Or sign up. It is free. https://buttondown.com/letterror/archive/

A drawing or diagram of the eye, looking at a letter S. Caption says "Disgusting Eye". Apparently the eye's interior is "soup" and "ham". I'm not entirely convinced this proper science. Must be art then.

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One of the most fun type customizations I have ever worked on is now on @FontsInUse :

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/67726/klangwelt-toggenburg

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Obligatory fonts-in-use stop on our way to @atypi in Copenhagen

Some big Bello in use at a German shopping centre

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When you’re preparing a post for @FontsInUse but you can’t ID the typeface.

Gandalf the wizard looks at a sword and says “I am not familiar with these letters”. From the 1977 animated film adaptation of The Hobbit.

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In memoriam Ray Cruz, 1943–2025. The lettering artist, graphic designer, teacher, and designer of 50+ typeface styles died on March 26 at the age of 81.

Bio: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/60206/eddie-floyd-soul-street-album-art
Examples of his fonts in use: https://fontsinuse.com/type_designers/727/ray-cruz

Two portraits of Ray Cruz, both times with his charming smile. The black-and-white pic on the left is from a type specimen for Cruz Tempor, published by John N. Schaedler, Inc. around 1968 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/hardwig/54434858645/). The color photo on the right was shared by his family on the obituary page (https://www.easternshorecremation.com/obituaries/Ramon-Cruz?obId=40148096).

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

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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Cooper Black is absolutely EVERYWHERE in Peru, on signs for everything from toys to jewelry to guns and just about anything else you can think of.

It’s often stacked vertically, sometimes squooshed, occasionally hand-rendered.

It’s more prevalent than Helvetica and I love it.

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As we know at @FontsInUse, most people are more likely to buy fonts after they see them in use.

Screenshot of a graphic of an eye next to text: “More than 50% state they are more likely to buy a font if they see examples of it used in brands or products.”

@jerry1970 That’s the Letraset classic Pump: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/1886/pump For future requests, also consider @FontID.

@kai 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

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Resolut specimen (typeface by Hans Brünnel), Nebiolo, 1939.

See the complete specimen in the Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0044&utm_source=Mastodon

More on Resolut from @FontsInUse: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/32714/resolut

#Typefaces #Fonts #TypeSpecimens #Nebiolo #1930s #TholenaarCollection

Cover of a type specimen titled “Resolut” over a large R.

The booklet open with vertical flaps to a page showing a classical image of an athlete and the title, “Resolut”.

The specimen opened to a spread showing a newspaper with headlines set on the typeface and a hole broken open with “Resolut” popping out.

The booklet opened to a spread showing a waterfall of size samples and a large R.

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Submitted two posts to @FontsInUse recently — https://fontsinuse.com/uses/66635/the-jante-law about a JAnte Law poster designed and produced 15 years ago and https://fontsinuse.com/uses/66273/berling-prize-diploma-2023 about the design of last years' Berling diploma with a hommage to the late Peter Bruhn

⤷⤴︎⤵︎ 1,000 examples of type set on a curve:
https://fontsinuse.com/tags/3595/type-on-a-curve?order=most-liked
#FontsInUse #typography

A 5×3 grid with thumbnail images from fontinuse.com, showing fifteen projects that are tagged with “type on a curve”

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Poll for people who use fonts:
Which of these limited descriptions seems most attractive to you for licensing commercial fonts?

(Please abstain from voting if you make or sell fonts and don’t regularly use others people’s fonts.)

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Macula by Jacques La Bailly @fonthausen in use.
Released at @boldmonday
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We posted this before, but there have been additional slogans added to the window. In case there are also flyers etc. we might make a case at #FontsInUse @FontsInUse
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Fun detail, the double-u of the logo is stretched, and it’s not a problem.

LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO WORK IN A BOTING OFFICE!

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