Screenshot from a survey with the question, “Can you name some foundries you’ve purchased font licenses from?” The top answer is Klim (437), followed by Commercial Type (200), Grilli Type (170), Dinamo (144), Lineto (117).

A caveat of this survey is that the respondents are skewed to Klim newsletter subscribers because (from what I can see in my inbox) it may be the only foundry newsletter that shared the survey. Wish others had done the same.

It’s therefore a specific segment of font buyers, but a discerning one!

What font users actually want: findings from Fontstand 2025 survey

Last year, we conducted an independent survey focused on font use and licensing. More than 1,300 respondents participated from a wide community of designers and other font users, and we have now published a short article plus the full survey results on Fontstand News:

fontstand.com/news/design-...

Papageno in use Revived as Gumball (Canada Type, 2005). Type Designers: Richard Weber. Foundry: Bauer

Please upload to fontsinuse.com/typefaces/39...

“So <Americans> don’t know, still, the exhaustion, this existential exhaustion that comes over you and you don’t know what it means to lose faith in yourself, in others, in politics, in democracy. So before that happens, this has to be stopped for sure…”’ —Ece Temelkuran @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social

Photo of a neon sign at night. The sign reads “Records” in red tubing with a blue tube frame.

Photo of a neon sign at night. The sign reads “AUTO” in white tubing on a red reflective background.

Two signs from @sfneon.bsky.social’s Mission tour last week: 20 Spot and Cherin’s Auto.

Mass-Driver is the type foundry of Rutherford Craze (@craze.co.uk) and one of the fine sponsors that make Fonts In Use possible.

#fonts #FontsInUseSponsors

Mecanorma Contest Winners, ca. 1972 Like VGC, Mecanorma ran a contest to encourage new type design submissions. This is from their U.S. catalog with © 1973, 74, 75. Collection of Letterform Archive.

Reminds me of flic.kr/p/Wb9j9x

Perhaps even inspired directly by it. A lot of designers got these Mecanorma catalogs.

This is why we post much less on Instagram.

👏Thanks @creativeboom.com for bringing this topic to the community.

Naw. Both foundries make exuberant scripts, but I think of Sudtipos’s work as far broader than the 1960s and 1970s.

Graphic of a bold, condensed script typeface called “Feline” with lots stroke contrast and a swash F.

Another banger from Maximiliano Sproviero, proving he is the master of 1960s script fonts. sproviero-type.com/font/feline/

2026 Community Supported Art | Keep Showing Up - Justseeds Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative has come together to offer another year of Community Supported Art. Our CSA delivers 12 powerful and inspirational political artworks by Justseeds artists to your mailbo...

See also @justseeds.bsky.social Community Supported Art subscription service: justseeds.org/project/csa/

This print raises awareness about the humanitarian crisis caused by Trump’s family separation policy which separated more than 5,000 children from their parents, keeping them in detention centers that violate their human rights. To this day, hundreds of children are still not reunited with parents.

Linocut-style illustration of a child surrounded by chainlink fence with the words “ABOLISH ICE” at the bottom.

Abolish ICE. Screen print by Carlos Barberena (@carlosbarberena.bsky.social). justseeds.org/product/abol...

The bio at the end of this editor’s article:

“He received by journalism degree at Temple University.”

Is that a sentence?

typography-debate.org — Digital archive of the modernist typography debate. Original texts, manifestos and rebuttals. A website by Sven Fuchs.

Matchbook-Neon Typography Tour 2/12 From vintage type to old glowing signs, follow the historic corridors of mid-century nightlife in San Francisco via neon and matchbooks.

I’m co-leading tours with @sfneon.bsky.social tomorrow and March 4. We visit sites around Union Square and connect their signs and matchbooks to #SanFrancisco nightlife history.

Feb 12: www.eventbrite.com/e/matchbook-...
Mar 4: www.eventbrite.com/e/matchbook-...

#Signs #Neon #Typography

Among my least favorite job duties: writing contracts and invoices.

Among my favorite job duties: typesetting contracts and invoices.

You know your stuff! Yes, seems like it.

Very!

Page from the Modulator specimen book showing multiple styles of the font family, all with different widths but the same counters and letter spaces. Text reads, “WHILE THE STEM WEIGHTS VARY, ALL NINE STYLES SHARE THE SAME COUNTER WIDTH. THIS REPETITION OF SHAPE AND SPACE CREATES A UNIFYING RHYTHM.”

Page from a Neon specimen book showing multiple sizes, each with a different width, resulting in similar stem weights and counter sizes.

One of the many modular things that makes Modulator so aptly named, is that all nine styles share the same counter width.

This creates a unifying rhythm that offers interesting possibilities when stacking multiple widths. Something like Nebiolo’s 1936 Neon, but in a totally Emigre way.

Screenshot of a type specimen for “Modulator Text 150 Regular” with the sample string, “J St. Berkeley, California”. The letters are condensed, monolinear, and rounded.

Even the most basic, middle, regular style in the family is radiating with personality.

Following a clear lineage from her Lo-Res to Modula to Program, Zuzana Licko’s newest design is the perfect marriage of her past experiments with variable technology: www.emigre.com/Fonts/Modula... #ZuzanaLicko #EmigreFonts #Fonts #TypeDesign

Another small correction: There *are* good directories of independent foundries: e.g., @matthewsmith.website’s typefoundry.directory, @type-atlas.xyz, and typefoundries.info. Not discouraging you from making another, but maybe lean into what makes yours unique rather than declaring it the only one.

Wild to see this as a bank ad.

Love the ethos of your site! Small niggle: why not name the people behind it? Always feels odd when a project is opaque about the humans who run it, especially one with such human values.

Bar chart showing the usafe of various font services across desktop and mobile platforms. Self-hosted fonts are the most dominant choice, being used by over 71% of pages, while Google Fonts follows as the most popular third-party provider at approximately 47%. Other services such as Adobe and Font Awesome have much smaller footprints, each appearing on less than 4% of pages. The data shows a high degree of consistency between desktop and mobile usage across all categories, with only a slight decrease in Google Font usage on mobile devices.

The dominance of self-hosting surprised me (since 2022!). I assumed Google Fonts would be at the top. almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/font...

Fonts | 2025 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive Fonts chapter of the 2025 Web Almanac covering performance, design, and development trends for typography across the web.

Bram Stein and @josesole.bsky.social’s extremely thorough Fonts chapter of the Web Almanac is out: almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/fonts

#Fonts #WebDesign #Webfonts

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