Fonts In Use – Type at work in the real world.

Comment by Stephen Coles on Pyramid – Pyramid album art

Stephen Coles — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:05:04 +0000

At last, the perfect use of Rosie!

Comment by Florian Hardwig on Errol Flabba Holt – Roots Radics Dub album art

Florian Hardwig — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:24:45 +0000

Tiki Type Wood (House Industries, 1997) is a digital font that employs the same concept, and might even be based on Rosie.

Resetting in Tiki Type Wood

Comment by Rebecca Gadsden on Preston Farmers commemorative mug

Rebecca Gadsden — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:47:58 +0000

Does anyone know the est. value of this mug please ?

Thank you!

Comment by Florian Hardwig on MoMoney, Museum of Money

Florian Hardwig — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:41:03 +0000

That’s a fun identity. I’d like to point out that at least some of the shown items are mockups, and don’t quite match the real thing. See for example the entry to the museum:

Museum entry as presented in the case study (left) compared to the detail of a photo of the museum taken in April 2026 (right)

I understand that it’s sometimes tricky to get good photos of the final designs. Whenever possible, though, we’d like to see the actual implementation here on Fonts In Use, and not an idealized concept. Thank you.

Comment by Florian Adler on Mietraum², Dec 2025 issue, Ottensen feature

Florian Adler — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:44:58 +0000

A very elegant typeface, particularly for headlines!

Comment by Gunnar Briggs on The Terminal Man title card

Gunnar Briggs — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:43:37 +0000

It was definitely a custom corporate typeface. I believe the typeface was an adaption of Handel Gothic, designed by Donald J. Handel in 1965 and who worked for Saul Bass.

Comment by Pijush Dutta on Bergner logo

Pijush Dutta — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:29:37 +0000

Well sometimes Florian, I might use Copilot for this because it kind of helps me, but I always have to say “don’t use ai answers at all” to Copilot and my brain is forced to give correct information from official sources, so Copilot can make the submission faster.

Comment by Daniel Dell on Cartoon Network logos, 1992–2010

Daniel Dell — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:25:26 +0000

They are!

Comment by Florian Hardwig on Bergner logo

Florian Hardwig — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:21:30 +0000

Hello Pijush, you wrote that Revue was “designed by Terence Killum”. This is incorrect; it’s a design by Colin Brignall. Where does this claim come from? In case you are using an LLM to generate description texts: please stop. We don’t need such slop here.

Comment by Juan Peces on The Huntington

Juan Peces — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:35:19 +0000

This is such beautiful design it hurts. Great catch, thank you for the review!

Comment by Julia on Zhurnalnaya Roublennaya: A Poor Man’s Futura

Julia — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:45:31 +0000

It's not very difficult to guess the national origin of commenter “Michael” based on his sentimental view of the USSR.

Comment by Fredrik M Wickberg on Hyundai Pangyo 10th Anniversary

Fredrik M Wickberg — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:07:02 +0000

Tasty looking type! 😋

Comment by Fredrik M Wickberg on Blastic

Fredrik M Wickberg — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:05:21 +0000

Lovely project and use of type! 👏🏽

Comment by Florian Hardwig on Routine video game

Florian Hardwig — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:52:39 +0000

This one? That’s Palatino.

Comment by Justin Desnoyers on The Candy Bar and the Spearmint Twist album art

Justin Desnoyers — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:08:36 +0000

And here is some more of the Johann Bold font.

And as always, this font is a digital font, which means it can be typable. It is hard to find that font nowadays in PDFs.

Comment by Prokul on Routine video game

Prokul — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:21:20 +0000

What was the serif typeface used in the ward terminals? The red ones. It has a nice look, elegant yet easy to read.

Comment by Henry Z on Light and Heavy Vehicle Technology by M.J. Nunney

Henry Z — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:25:09 +0000

16 years and no one thought to fix the kerning in "Heavy"..

Comment by Florian Hardwig on The Terminal Man title card

Florian Hardwig — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:32:49 +0000

I wonder if the secondary typeface is related to a typeface that is very similar to Corporate Gothic and, according to Patrick Concannan, was used in several books published by The Times Mirror Company from around 1975. Here’s a sample that Patrick provided, squeezed to about two thirds of its original width:

Comment by Florian Hardwig on Method in Madness. The Comic Art of Mel Brooks by Maurice Yacowar

Florian Hardwig — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:59:25 +0000

Gv Time (top) vs Candice (bottom). Screenshots from MyFonts.com.

Gv Time is not “inspired from 60's and 70's script lettering”, as its maker claims. Rather, it is a poorly made copy of Candice by Alan Meeks (Letraset, 1976), with tightened spacing and squeezed capitals.

The acceptance of such a clear case of derivative design to MyFonts is yet more proof that there is no quality control in place at that platform.

Legal/ethical issues aside, it’s also poor on a technical level. Despite being advertised to “support multilanguage”, Gv Time is of no use for languages other than English. To give a few examples: tilde in ñ is the wrong way around, acute in é is too small and too far to the left, dieresis is ä is not centered, ß doesn’t match the style, etc. Heck, even English users will run into bloopers like a semicolon that sits far too high.

Comment by Florian Hardwig on Little Shop of Horrors film titles

Florian Hardwig — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:05:37 +0000

Justin, I had to remove the links to the font files from your comment. I’m sure you have no bad intentions, but since you are not the IP holder for these fonts and there is no indication that they were released under a license that allows distribution, we can’t allow such links.

Right, at least the Light and Medium were generated by Fontographer 3.5, according to the meta data. This means they were made in or after 1992.