This may be our most expansive post yet. Our thanks to Ari Zetkin (a pen name) for inspecting 25 years of whitehouse.gov, and @litherland for editing.
And, as always, @internetarchive for safeguarding web history.
New on the Blog: A survey of type used on the website of the People’s House doubles as a capsule view of web designers’ evolving professional identity.
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/78453/the-typography-of-whitehouse-gov-2000-2026
#PoliticalDesign #POTUS #Typography #WebDesign #DesignHistory #USPolitics #FontsInUse
Staff pick:
Mahal is a psych-funk album by Toro y Moi, released in 2022 through Dead Oceans. The album art was designed by FISK, using Druk Wide. For some elements, Neue Helvetica Medium was used with an added rounded stroke.
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/51767/toro-y-moi-mahal-album-art
The main Typographics conference is starting now! You can watch free on the public livestream. 📺
Thanks to @FontsInUse for [hosting] the writeup of @bzotto 's book, which uses his font based on the Signetics 2513 character generator (as used in the Apple I also!); that helped me add a paragraph to one of my WIP articles.
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/77829/go-computer-now-by-ben-zotto
Some BIG Job Clarendon is now on @FontsInUse !
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/78262/paul-cauthen-book-of-paul-album-art-single-co
Book of Paul is a 2026 album by Texan country artist Paul Cauthen. It was designed by Mitchell McCleary, with photography from Tyler Ellison.
@FontsInUse I love the bits on Ulysses in Peter Mendelsund’s book The Look of the Book (here’s a few)
Happy typographic Bloomsday! 🇮🇪
https://fontsinuse.com/tags/1924/ulysses
#Bloomsday #Bloomsday2026 #JamesJoyce #FontsInUse #BookCovers #fonts #typography #TypographyTuesday
Staff pick:
Monasterio de San Francisco is a hotel near Córdoba, Spain. For the visual identity, branding studio Wozere made a logo using Miss Fajardose, a swirling script by @sudtipos that’s based on the work of 1940s lettering artist Charles P. Bluemlein.
It’s combined with initials from PoW Limerick (Proof of Words), a pixel font inspired by cross-stitch alphabets, and the condensed serif Editorial New (Pangram Pangram).
🧳 https://fontsinuse.com/uses/76753/hotel-monasterio-de-san-francisco
New article on @FontsInUse :
Forthcoming typeface Costumes in Mousse issue 94, Winter 2026
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/77755/mousse-issue-94-winter-2026
In memory of David Hockney, 1937–2026.
The following issue tallies the typefaces actually *used* by advertisements in 30 representative magazines and newspapers.
https://archive.org/details/sim_american-printer_1928-04_81_1/page/100/mode/2up
Another Inland Printer tally of types: In 1928, the journal published a University of Wisconsin study of types installed in composing rooms across the US. 166 magazines, newspapers, printers, and ad agencies responded.
https://archive.org/details/sim_american-printer_1928-03_80_6/page/958/mode/2up
Thanks again, @internetarchive! (Have you donated to this fine org lately?)
@FontsInUse And for those who will be in NYC for the Typographics festival later this month, there will be a tour of Gretel’s studio with a talk by @ryan and Dylan Mulvaney about the @visitpham custom typeface project:
https://2026.typographics.com/workshops/#gretel-studio-tour-talk-designing-a-typeface-for-the-philadelphia-museum
Staff pick:
The Philadelphia Museum of Art @visitpham reimagined their visual identity together with Gretel. They commissioned Ryan Bugden @ryan with the design of a custom typeface, Fairmount Serif. It’s supported by a vernacular type palette “inspired by Philadelphia’s rich visual texture of storefronts, street vendors, and murals.” See more:
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/73911/philadelphia-museum-of-art-identity
#PhiladelphiaMuseumOfArt #Philadelphia #museums #FontsInUse #fonts
On the occasion of today’s release of Inferno, dive into Boards of Canada’s typography:
https://fontsinuse.com/tags/18251/boards-of-canada
Read about Karma Kebab and the Kraai font at Font in Use: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/77438/karma-kebab (Thanks Matthijs and Florian!)
New FontsInUse post on Sidabro Merginos / Silver Girls exhibition, last year in Vilnius. A daring use of my LTR Limited Grotesque. Exhibition design by @AleksandraSamulenkova Much obliged to @FontsInUse, @fhardwig and @MatthijsSluiter. #exhibitiondesign #fontsinuse #photography #vilnius
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/68424/sidabro-merginos-silver-girls
A zine ❤️ about an enigmatic mammal ❤️ in Korean and English ❤️ set in P22 Operina ❤️ using the extravagant alts ❤️ written up for FontsInUse 💯
(not by me, but i love it)
New #casualarchivist newsletter about "first day of issue" envelopes, stamps as branding, and the power of miniatures—📬 in your inbox or read it here! https://casualarchivist.substack.com/p/going-postal