i am fascinated by this typeface history. as it turns out, Gerald Giampa was the owner of the LTC Spire typeface when it was licensed for use in the GeoWorks operating environment.
i had no idea that he was canadian, and moved his foundry to Prince Edward Island before it was destroyed in a tidal wave. P22 bought his font faces, and designed this absolutely gorgeous traditional web site called The Giampa Tour. it disappeared from the web over 10 years ago, and this is probably the first time it has been seen in a decade. it's full of incredibly nerdy typeface history, including some fantastic rants on how shitty Adobe was to deal with, even back in the late 1980s. 😆
this is what the world wide web was made for, and i'm so glad WBM managed to preserve a working copy, as P22 has been out of business for many years - and its website gone with it.
i've rebuilt the entire site using the WBM's snapshot for public viewing here, where it will remain as an online museum and tribute to Gerald Giampa's incredible work:
Over the past eight days, we have published 80 new Uses. Among the featured #FontsInUse are 38 #typefaces that weren’t represented in the collection before.
The debutants include brand new releases like Choppin, Euchre (@Okay) and Retiler, the custom Curtis (all 2024), and the yet unreleased Turist. The oldest newbie is Fuchs Space Age (c.1969).
There are sans, serif, slab, script, stencil, mono, rounded, pixel, eroded #fonts and more. See them all at https://fontsinuse.com
New Typeface Entry: Theda Bara https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/232222/theda-bara, an art deco style in the vein of Baby Teeth, shown by Solotype as early as 1982. Like most Solo designs, it likely originated elsewhere. More info welcome!
I geek out about stuff like #zeppelins, antique #postcards (mostly of zeppelins), #scifi like #StarTrek, and retro-inspired aesthetics like #dieselpunk. I love learning how #games are made. I love coffee AND tea.
The examples include film titles and posters, record and book covers, food packaging and more. They range from 1961 to 2023, and from Brazil to Greece and the Philippines.
I have a soft spot for #typefaces that don’t really count as #blackletter but are infused with characteristics of broken script. Think Fanfare (Louis Oppenheim, 1929), ITC Honda (Bonder & Carnase, 1970), or, more recently, Eskapade Fraktur (Alisa Nowak, 2012) and Birra Bruin (Elena Schneider, 2019).
Felix Braden’s Ferryman is a fine new addition to this hybrid genre, and a convenient one: it comes in a full range of weights, with italics.
Newly added:
Stingray, a twisted 3D extravaganza drawn by John S. Allen in the late 1960s for Photo-Lettering, Inc. See it in use for a book jacket and two record covers: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/175125/allen-stingray
Browse this cool 1992 book of gorgeous wooden ornamented types, "twenty-three alphabets from the foundry of Louis John Pouchee) from the Letterform Archive
The newly added in-use examples span 57 years and feature 13 different typefaces, providing a glimpse into #AlbertBoton’s rich œuvre. Six of the #FontsInUse weren’t represented in our collection yet.
Overview of #typefaces designed by #AlbertBoton. From “Albert Boton. 21 planches typographiques”, a publication edited by Olivier Nineuil and published in Ypsilon éditeur’s Bibliothèque typographique collection in 2011 (out of print).
Okay, here's a weird one. Does anyone here make fonts? I'm always looking for new fonts to use for commercial work (mostly illustration, sometimes comics). Any style! Paid is fine.
“I Take Full Responsibility” is a book about the end of unlimited growth in Silicon Valley. For the 2nd Riso-printed edition, author and designer @scottboms used a varied mix of #fonts.
These wooden address numbers have followed me my whole life, from my family’s summer condo in Idaho, to the house across the street from my childhood home in Salt Lake City, to the Oakland building where @laureola and I live now. https://flic.kr/p/2oGpf8u
Still seeking the designer and manufacturer. They were most likely introduced in the early 1970s.