Typographica

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

Abolish ICE. Screen print by Carlos Barberena. https://justseeds.org/product/abolish-ice-3/

“This print is to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis caused by the family separation policy, “Zero Tolerance” during the Trump administration. This policy separated more than 5,000 children from their parents, keeping them in detention centers that violate their human rights. To this day, there are hundreds of children who have still not been reunited with their parents.”

https://typography-debate.org/ — Digital archive of the modernist typography debate. Original texts, manifestos and rebuttals. By @svenofuchs@typo.social.

Harbor Bickmore of That That Type shares his font sales numbers from 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsPlT9KQEKU

Creative Market
2023: $24K
2025: $8K ↓↓

Envato Elements
2023: $9K
2025: $9.5K ↑

Etsy
2023: $3.5K
2025: $265 ↓ (he didn’t add new fonts)

Monotype
2023: $2K
2025: $28.7K ↑↑ (added many more fonts)

Supply Family
2025: $1.6K (can’t upload large families)

YouWorkForThem
2023: $10K
2023: $7.5K ↓

That That Website
2023: $4K
2025: $20.5K ↑↑

Custom Type
2025: $102K

Summary:
— Hobbyist retail market way down. Pro retail market slightly down.
— Build and invest in your own foundry website and promote it with Behance, email list, etc.
— Monotype big part of the biz, but many clients now asking for custom type due to subscription economics.

#FontIndustry #Fonts

I’ll be cohosting another tour with SF Neon on March 4. We visit sites in the Union Square neighborhood and connect their signs and matchbooks to #SanFrancisco’s nightlife history. Just a few tickets left! https://sfneon.org/

#Signs #Neon #NeonSigns #Matchbooks #Typography #Lettering

Christian Schwartz’s Amplitude comes home to his own foundry @commercial@typo.social after the sunsetting of Font Bureau. And finally updated with italics! https://vault.commercialtype.com/vault/amplitude

One of my favorite typefaces, often recommended to folks who want a versatile fam with deep ink traps, and the identity type for @FontID@typo.social.

A site from @commercial@typo.social that exhibits a new type family (@greggazdowicz@mastodon.social’s Terza) and the text drafting process: https://terza.commercialtype.com/

(Editing by our own @litherland@typo.social.)