Tweeted by Jonathan earlier this week: it’s finally happened, one of our fonts has invaded the street we work in (Archer Street). Priori is being used for a new bar here.

Not wishing to jump on the bandwagon, but we couldn’t help noticing the use of our typeface Exocet on this one off track frame. We spotted the on the frame on the 14bikeco blog. The project is a collaboration between Fixedgear London, 14bikeco, and the artist d*face.

First up is Sarcastic, found in Tony and Guy’s magazine Essensuals. It looks rather nice don’t you think?

Then we have a couple of Mason found in very different places. The first was found on Tim Burton’s book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy; the second on the amusingly named Oktoberfest beer (brewed in California).

Another old favourite, Exocet finds it’s way on to a Tattoo book and – in a quite different use – some rather nice looking herbal teas.

Finally, we have an elegantly designed sign for the San Francisco American Conservatory Theater’s War Music. Splendid!

Thank you very much to Izzy Way, Jesse Lee Stout and Amelia Nardinelli for sending those in. If you want have any uses of VirusFonts you have seen please email then to us at blog@barnbrook.net.

It came to our attention a while ago, but we have neglected to post in on the blog until now – Priori Serif is being used by University Challenge. The long running and popular quiz show uses it for its titles and scores, appropriately picking up on that particularly English feel of the letterforms.

In the latest episode Girton College, Cambridge beat St George’s, University of London in an excitingly close match. All the action can be seen on the BBC website and iPlayer.

Following on from a previous blog post earlier this month, Film’s Favourite Font?, we recently came across another of our typefaces being used on a Movie poster.

Bourgeois has been spotted by Yves Peters in a recent article on the font feed. Yves writes “The poster for Steven Soderbergh’s latest, The Girlfriend Experience, kicks all kinds of ass. The image treatment is fascinating, with another image invading and violating the girl’s close-?up portrait through a pattern of dots similar to a half-tone pattern. It is reminiscent of the gorgeous androgynous mesh of Louise Rhodes’ and Andy Barlow’s faces inside the CD booklet of What Sound by Lamb.

The square sans used at the bottom of the poster is not Bank Gothic nor its usual replacement FF Oxide, but quite unexpectedly Jonathan Barnbrook’s Bourgeois, an exquisite choice. And that bar code – it possibly relates to the commerce of sex, prostitution being the main theme of the movie – adds that certain je-ne-sais-quoi to the design. Lovely, lovely..”

Thanks Yves!

It’s always interesting to spot another use of one of our fonts. Recently we’ve noticed that the publicity for an upcoming film release Dorian Gray has been featuring Mason. The British film is an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and stars Barn Barnes and Colin Firth, amongst others.

We weren’t responsible for the poster designs for the film, and we were reminded of a similarly styled poster for another film The Golden Compass which also features our Font Mason. If you can think of any more, email us at blog@barnbrook.net.

Mason is available from Emigre.

If you’ve grabbed a recent issue of the free magazine SPORT, you’ve probably been asking yourself where you can find that fancy new font they’re using. Regime, the latest release from Virus Fonts, has been in full use throughout the publication and we must admit, it looks quite nice.