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Fonts In Use – Find out where a font is used

116 points by open_ 2mo ago

ChrisArchitect 2mo ago
– "Type at work in the real world"
fny 2mo ago
The whitehouse.gov item is quite the blast from the past: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/78453/the-typography-of-whitehouse-gov-2000-2026 https://fontsinuse.com/uses/78453/the-typography-of-whitehou...
- croisillon 2mo ago
  great article!
- hallole 2mo ago
  Good article. Too preachy.
  - KaiserPro 2mo ago
    In what way? seems quite balanced and sums up what the designers wanted to get across for each revision
    - hallole 2mo ago
      The framing of certain developments. For example, >A [Trump admin] holding page ... still used Hoefler fonts – the uprightness from the previous [Obama] administration had apparently not abated. as well as other instances wherein the author's account feels molded to signal the badness of Trump. This is in spite of what is, in my opinion, the more intriguing subtext at this point in the article: that the White House designers had acted purposefully incompetent in their service of the Trump admin (this the author hints at). The article was otherwise enjoyable.
amstan 2mo ago
Checks out, Papyrus: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/61309/avatar-movie-posters https://fontsinuse.com/uses/61309/avatar-movie-posters
- maxweylandt 2mo ago
  related, now-classic SNL skit linked in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
  - jjkaczor 2mo ago
    It is such a classic, it got a sequel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PdffUfoF0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PdffUfoF0
globular-toast 2mo ago
I found a copy of Encyclopaedia of Typefaces by Jaspert et al. in a second hand bookshop. My partner went and paid for it while I went outside for some fresh air. Apparently the young girl at the till saw the book and said "ooh, let me see if my favourite is in there" and proceeded to find Goudy Old Style which she said is in the title card of Blade Runner. It's a shame I wasn't there because I would have asked her how do you know this?! Are typefaces/fonts trending at the moment?
- bryanrasmussen 2mo ago
  I would suppose she was a typography nerd and knew it because she maybe also liked Blade Runner.
- cormullion 2mo ago
  https://fontsinuse.com/uses/19026/blade-runner-title-sequence-workprint-and-the https://fontsinuse.com/uses/19026/blade-runner-title-sequenc...
- wanda 2mo ago
  https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner/ https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner/
velcrovan 2mo ago
I have this site’s rss feed in my feed reader. I definitely don’t try to keep up with every post but once a week or so I click through a dozen or so recent posts.

116 points by open_ 2mo ago

– "Type at work in the real world"

fny 2mo ago

The whitehouse.gov item is quite the blast from the past: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/78453/the-typography-of-whitehouse-gov-2000-2026 https://fontsinuse.com/uses/78453/the-typography-of-whitehou...

croisillon 2mo ago
great article!
hallole 2mo ago
Good article. Too preachy.
- KaiserPro 2mo ago
  In what way? seems quite balanced and sums up what the designers wanted to get across for each revision
  - hallole 2mo ago
    The framing of certain developments. For example, >A [Trump admin] holding page ... still used Hoefler fonts – the uprightness from the previous [Obama] administration had apparently not abated. as well as other instances wherein the author's account feels molded to signal the badness of Trump. This is in spite of what is, in my opinion, the more intriguing subtext at this point in the article: that the White House designers had acted purposefully incompetent in their service of the Trump admin (this the author hints at). The article was otherwise enjoyable.

amstan 2mo ago

Checks out, Papyrus: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/61309/avatar-movie-posters https://fontsinuse.com/uses/61309/avatar-movie-posters

maxweylandt 2mo ago
related, now-classic SNL skit linked in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
- jjkaczor 2mo ago
  It is such a classic, it got a sequel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PdffUfoF0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PdffUfoF0

globular-toast 2mo ago

I found a copy of Encyclopaedia of Typefaces by Jaspert et al. in a second hand bookshop. My partner went and paid for it while I went outside for some fresh air. Apparently the young girl at the till saw the book and said "ooh, let me see if my favourite is in there" and proceeded to find Goudy Old Style which she said is in the title card of Blade Runner. It's a shame I wasn't there because I would have asked her how do you know this?! Are typefaces/fonts trending at the moment?

bryanrasmussen 2mo ago
I would suppose she was a typography nerd and knew it because she maybe also liked Blade Runner.
cormullion 2mo ago
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/19026/blade-runner-title-sequence-workprint-and-the https://fontsinuse.com/uses/19026/blade-runner-title-sequenc...
wanda 2mo ago
https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner/ https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner/

velcrovan 2mo ago

I have this site’s rss feed in my feed reader. I definitely don’t try to keep up with every post but once a week or so I click through a dozen or so recent posts.