An ad for the READaTHON, an event organized by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to raise money while also encouraging children to read. This ad was published in Disney Adventures magazine in January 1998.

The late Argentine designer Luis Siquot (1945–2025) has left us with several typeface designs. We’ve seen his ITC Juanita in use for a book with paintings of African wildlife. Siquot also takes credit for a couple of album covers.

Shown here is his design for The Rite of Strings. The acoustic jazz fusion album by guitarist Al Di Meola, bassist Stanley Clarke, and violinist Jean-Luc Ponty was recorded at Studio 56, after the trio’s six-month world tour in 1995, and released by Gai Saber.

The cover shows a stylized illustration of the three kinds of string instruments, with many strong colors blended into each other.

For the typography, Siquot didn’t use his own fonts. The main typeface is Retro Bold. The all-caps slab serif was designed by Andrew Smith and Colin Brignall, quoting the Constructivist, Bauhaus, Art Deco, and Streamline movements as influences. It was issued in 1992 as one of Letraset’s last releases to be produced for dry transfer lettering, before switching entirely to their digital Fontek range.

The credits as well as the track names on the back and the CD itself are added in Lithos. Released in 1989 in Adobe’s fledgling Originals program, the lapidary sans was among Carol Twombly’s first published type designs for the Californian software company, together with Charlemagne and Trajan, and became quite ubiquitous in 1990s desktop publishing. “Artist management” is added in a bold italic style from Adobe Garamond by her colleague Robert Slimbach, also from 1989.

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The Legal Notice sticker applied to this promotional copy features another Adobe release from 1989: for a while, David Siegel’s Tekton became at least as popular as Lithos, but since then has fallen out of fashion even more thoroughly.

X-Men: Children of the Atom is an arcade game released by Capcom in 1994 in Japan, and in 1995 in North America and Europe. It is a “beat ’em up” style fighting game, reminiscent of similar fighting games of the era, such as Street Fighter 2.

After its initial release in arcades, the game was also released on Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation 1 consoles, as well as on PC.

The X-Men logo is custom, using generic bold san-serif caps with dimensional and perspective effects and a gradient fill. The “Children of the Atom” sub-title is set in Caren Stencil. The letter R appears to have been modified by the designer.

The Capcom logo is based on ITC Korinna, see the dedicated post.

The marquee sign for the X-Men: Children of the Atom arcade cabinet

The arcade cabinet for the game X-Men: Children of the Atom

The Sega Saturn concole release of the game. The letterforms for “Sega Saturn” were turned into a fan font named NiseSegaSaturnU. “#1 Arcade Smash!” is set in a bold extended style of Baucher Gothic.

Magazine ad with Retro Bold at the top. “100% direct conversion” is set in Neue Helvetica 107 (Condensed Extra Black Oblique)

The Sony Playstation 1 console release of the game. “#1 Arcade Smash” here is added in Neue Helvetica.

Ad for the video game X-Men: Children of the Atom

Beetlejuice puzzle. The green text in Treacherous Corners;

This line of Beetlejuice merchandise, made by Hasbro, was inspired by the 1988 Tim Burton film Beetlejuice. Featured here are a few items that use typefaces such as Meltdown and Treacherous created by Comicraft and a modified Caslon Antique for the Beetlejuice logo.

Monopoly, Beetlejuice edition. The line of text on top uses ITC Kabel, which is also the basis for the MONOPOLY logo. The two lines of text in the lower corners are set in Meltdown.

Back/bottom of the Monopoly box set, with most text set in Gotham, and Meltdown used for “Contents”.

“Floaty pen” set in Treacherous (the N in “PEN” is a flipped U from Treacherous Curves); use instructions are set in Chiller and the text on the pen itself uses Helvetica.

Febrero is an album by Uruguayan artist Pepe Gonzalez, released 1998 via Sondor Records. Photography and cover design by Yamandú Roos. The typography uses Chiller, a design by Andrew Smith, released by Letraset in 1995.

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Vampire Weekend is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 2006. Their fourth studio album Father of the Bride was released in May, 2019 in various forms and formats: its tactile versions come as a cassette, compact disc, and a gatefold vinyl album with poster insert.

In all versions, art director Nick Harwood (Insdustry Plant) pairs artwork by Brendan Ratzlaff with typography, mostly using Futura. The album title on a circle is set in the Bold Wide style of David Berlow’s Rhode (Font Bureau, 1997).

Jokerman is another font used prominently in marketing, such as the announcement of the Madison Square Garden show and on the official tour T-shirt.

2010–2013. This logo appeared at the end of Back at the Barnyard and Planet Sheen. — Logopedia

Founded in 2002, Omation Animation Studio is the animation division of Steve Oedekerk’s O Entertainment, known for producing animated TV series for Nickelodeon.

Omation’s logo uses the Jokerman typeface with purple lowercase letters. The yellow O kid is custom drawn. The logo in Jokerman was first introduced in 2007. The letterforms were initially flat and later got a 3-dimensional treatment.

Max the Glow Train (Toys) is a series of animated educational videos produced by Coilbook. Max is a fun loving toy train who teaches children the letters of the alphabet, numbers, shapes, colors and more.

The main logo is set in outlined letters from Cooper Black, with different colors for each character. The letters and numerals are presented in Arial Rounded (with added eyes). Almost all of the fonts used in the series come bundled with Microsoft software like MS Office.

Title card from the “Letters” episode.

The word Colors uses a Comic Sans typeface.

The Arial Rounded typeface doesn’t use eyes or mouths.

The Word Machine uses the Jokerman and Arial Regular typefaces.

The Splash Zone uses the Forte typeface and the bold style of Comic Sans.

The Water Adventure logo uses a Casual (AJ Palmer) typeface.

Disneyland Park, CA

Disneyland Park, CA

Disneyland Park, CA

Magic Kingdom, FL

Magic Kingdom, FL

Magic Kingdom, FL

Magic Kingdom, FL

ITC Anna for the bathroom signs. The font’s ‘M’ and ‘U’ are rotated for ‘W’ and ‘N’ to keep the look more rounded than sharp and pointy.

Magic Kingdom, FL