by Sarah Terrazano
As a
college student, I’ve been programmed to type in Times New Roman—the font most
often required for school assignments. But as the Font Sunday movement shows, I’ve been missing out on a whole wide
world of fonts.
Font Sunday
is a weekly font-spotting Twitter project spearheaded by the Design Museum in
London. Every Saturday, the Design Museum tweets out a font theme. Followers
then have a day to spot fonts around them that match the theme. The fonts may
come from dusty book covers, be found online or be seen in a storefront. On
Sunday from noon to 6 p.m., users around the world share pictures of their font
finds with the hashtag #FontSunday.
Past
Font Sunday themes include futuristic, psychedelic, neon, propaganda and jazz
fonts. The popularity of Font Sunday has contributed to the Design Museum’s
online following—with 4.2 million Twitter followers, the Design Museum is the
second most followed museum in the world, second only to MOMA.
For
those who may not give fonts a second thought, Font Sunday is giving a face to
typefaces used all over the world. As for me, I’ll be taking a break from Times
New Roman to spot some Font Sunday typefaces of my own!
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