Fonts In Use

Some nice type here, some not-so-nice. This site does a better job showcasing some of them than their respective Foundries/gallery pages do (Signalist, Xtreem), which is always something to consider when looking at typefaces. http://fontsinuse.com/ used to be a good resource to see different typefaces in the wild, but now it's pretty watered down with crap. You might still be able to find some gems there though. Can't stress enough how fantastic the MyFonts email newsletters (http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/) are if you enjoy being up to speed or collecting inspiration for later use. The FontShop ones (http://www.fontshop.com/blog/newsletters/) are also pretty good.

This is a very similar resource but using Google Webfonts: http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/ One of my favorite typography sites: http://fontsinuse.com/

Enter the Void. Not that's an amazing title sequence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNtxgxYY7sI https://fontsinuse.com/uses/61211/enter-the-void-title-sequence

I found this site [https://fontsinuse.com/] mentioned in the article to be quite interesting to browse through.

Just get Font-Forge[0] and a protractor. Give it a week or two and you'll be able to throw together some copycat LL Circular[1] derivative, to give the illusion of having 'own typeface' money, which might in turn look rather impressive to prospective investors. (At least, when you say 'we', I presume you're speaking on behalf of a fledgling business. If you're just saying that you'd like more money for your family, well, I guess I'd still recommend making fonts because it's very lucrative work apparently.) [0]: https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/ [1]: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/7192/airbnb-identity-website-app-2014-rede…

> The other GUI I really like is MAGI from Evangelion - all these black screens with classic amber color accompanied by red, green and teal fit very well together - especially with the volumetric-holographic displays from new tetralogy You will probably appreciate this site and especially this post, which is an exploration of the typography of the series. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion Previously on HN [2019] 415 points 111 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21323736 Choice quote from that prior submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21328512 > “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” > Brian…

Also see: https://fontsinuse.com/

But I've never really found a site that collects these free software licensed fonts with curated reviews and use-cases. There's not much out there, I'm afraid. It looks like you're already aware of the sites that just list a million fonts and maybe let you try out rendering some sample text interactively. You might find sites like Typewolf[1] and Fonts In Use[2] interesting if you haven't come across them before. There's a little more curation and organisation there than on something like Google Fonts. But really, for free fonts, there's not a lot of detailed commentary in my experience. If you have specific questions or want advice about suitable fonts for a specific project, you could also ask on the Typography subreddit[3], which is fairly active and has a few people who know what they're doing around. [1] https://www.typewolf.com/ [2] https://fontsinuse.com/ [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/typography/

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

The whitehouse.gov item is quite the blast from the past: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/78453/the-typography-of-whitehouse-gov-200…

The Fonts in Use page from Berthold is fascinating. https://fontsinuse.com/foundry/159/berthold

Ohhhhh! REALLY good catch, I think you're right. Matches all of the features! There's some really neat uses of it on Fonts In Use. [0] Also a new-jersey based foundry specimen book, from a few years before publishing this catalog. [1] There's a non-zero chance that these samples were originally what convinced the original designer to go with this typeface, if we believe the designer also worked in Corning New York at the pyrex office. [0] https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/4509/stymie [1] https://archive.org/details/ATFBookOfAmericanTypes1934/page/n55/mode/2…

While not in such a very nicely compact, single article, there are indeed discussions on the fonts used on Led Zep covers on the site, see https://fontsinuse.com/tags/8960/led-zeppelin

I think that's actually IBM Selectric Script, not Scribe (the images are labelled at the bottom not the top). https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/10922/script-ibm finds two uses of it.

On the contrary, Norway money font are based on 2 Swiss Fonts https://fontsinuse.com/uses/29444/norwegian-banknotes-2014-2019

Call me old fashioned but there's only one San Francisco[1] to me. (Modern recreation[2] for current use.) [1] https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/31774/san-francisco-1984 [2] https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/urbanrenewal/

I first saw this video a few weeks ago when I was researching Cormorant, the beautiful serif font it uses. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/44320/the-beauty-of-bezier-curves-video

Also Christine, Starman, and Escape From L.A. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/19085/directed-by-john-carpenter

It's call a spade a spade, Inter is an open license replica of Apple's San Francisco font. The San Francisco font was first released Nov 2014 [0] Inter was first release in Aug 2017 [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_(sans-serif_typeface) [1] https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/93554/inter-rasmus-andersson

Relevant: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion Neon Genesis Evangelion made heavy (and iconic) use of Helvetica and Century in the English episode title cards.

This is a nice and comprehensive article about the typography of NGE: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion

Last year somebody posted this [1] right here in HN. Speaking about being mind blown. [1] https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion

Higgs Boson slide screenshots: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/11764/higgs-boson-discovery-announcement

Motter Tektura. Also used by Reebok shoes. https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/10214/motter-tektura https://gizmodo.com/why-youve-never-heard-of-this-typeface-that-define…

The New York Times has a whole suite of them: https://fontsinuse.com/tags/758/the-new-york-times

This page could also be of use: https://fontsinuse.com/type_designers/225/william-addison-dwiggins

This article starts off well, but quickly makes various oversimplifications, such as: > This is because it’s rare for sans-serif and slab-serifs to exhibit any difference in the stroke. Uhh, sure they are rare, as long as you ignore industries where contrasting stroke sans-serifs are the norm in their marketing materials, like cosmetics: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/9689/estee-lauder-websites For that matter, this is just an extension of the Humanist sans-serif category. Other important subcategories elided are the Latin (or Wedge) serifs and Flared serifs.

Additional reading from the type archivists at Fonts in Use: http://fontsinuse.com/uses/13992/stranger-things A few nice quotes about the design direction and a pair of comments at the end with illustrations of the source material with the original cut of Benguait.

They are color palettes based on Swiss design that originated in the 1950s, and a big influence on the look of flat design now. Not so much the function; Swiss design (international typographic style) placed an emphasis on removing visual embellishments to make design an effective tool of communication. The minimalism and simplicity were a means to an end, not an end in itself. Here is a fun example of the bright colors preferred by these designers: http://fontsinuse.com/uses/3254/principles-of-wanner-gruppe Traffic safety posters (!): http://fontsinuse.com/uses/4263/campaign-posters-for-the-swiss-automob…