Famous Logo Fonts
A look at most popular fonts used in the logos of famous brands & companies.
Famous Font Friday
Flight Font Friday
Ever wonder what fonts airlines use in their logos? A sampling of airline fonts, from fontmeme.com, is below. (See also Fightin’ Font Friday, about typefaces used on airplane models.)
About United Express Font
United Express is the brand name for the regional branch of United Airlines, under which nine individually owned regional airlines operate short and medium haul feeder flights.
The font used for United Express logo is very similar to Gill Sans Bold, which is a humanist sans serif font designed by English type designer Eric Gill and published by Monotype. You can preview and buy Gill Sans Bold font on myfonts.com.
Future Font Friday 1
A handy how-to to make any word look like it’s from [cue theremin music] THE FUTURE! Via Dave Addey at Typeset in the Future. I’ll be watching his blog for more posts on sci-fi type.
How To Make Your Text Look Futuristic
We’ve already seen how Eurostile Bold Extended is spectacularly effective at establishing a movie’s timeframe. But if Eurostile isn’t enough, there’s more you can do to clarify your movie’s timeframe. I’d like to introduce you to six easy rules that are pretty much guaranteed to position your text firmly in the FUTURE.
We’ll start with some simple sans-serif text, such as this randomly chosen word in Eurostile Bold. So far, so 2016:
Food Font Friday 3
Food and Drinks Fonts
Browse and find fonts used in (or similar to) the logos of food and beverage companies and brands.
Finance Font Friday
Financial institutions have traditionally wanted to create a feeling of stability and trust, but more recently some consumer banks have opted for a feeling of vibrancy and energy. Either way, banks et al. therefore spend a great deal of time and money on their branding: cool, dark colors and serif fonts for the traditional logos, and warmer, brighter colors and sans serif fonts for the modern.
From http://fontmeme.com/logo-fonts/finance/, some traditional marks: