14 web 2.0 companies fonts – Twitter, Youtube, Vimeo, Digg and more

Here you` ll find the fonts used by 14 web 2.0 companies that almost everyone knows about.

43 Things font

American Typewriter Medium BT

More stylized and prettier than Courier is great for that faux-typewriter effect.

Ning font

Clarendon

The classical Clarendon form originating in England in 1845 as polished by Edouard Hoffmann and Hermann EidenbenzHaas a little over a century later. Haas’ revival of this typeface in 1953 precipitated the revivals that follow. at

TechCrunch font

Frutiger Light

In 1968, Adrian Frutiger was commissioned to develop a signage system suited to the architecture of the new Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris; he designed a simple, clean, robust sans serif type that is highly legible. In 1976, Frutiger completed the family for the Stempel foundry.

Bloglines font

Officina Sans Std-Book

Tumblr font

Bookman Old Style

The origins of Bookman Old Style lie in the typeface called Oldstyle Antique, designed by A C Phemister circa 1858 for the Miller and Richard foundry in Edinburgh, Scotland. Many American foundries made versions of this type which eventually became known as Bookman. Monotype Bookman Old Style roman is based on earlier Lanston Monotype and ATF models. The italic has been re drawn following the style of the Oldstyle Antique italics of Miller and Richard. Although called ‘Old Style’, the near vertical stress of the face puts it into the transitional category. A legible and robust text face.

Apple font

Myriad Pro

An Adobe Originals design first released in 1992, Myriad has become popular for both text and display composition. As an OpenType release, Myriad Pro expands this sans serif family to include Greek and Cyrillic glyphs, as well as adding oldstyle figures and improving support for Latin-based languages. The full Myriad Pro family includes condensed, normal, and extended widths in a full range of weights.

Bloglines font

ITC Officina Serif Bold

When ITC Officina was first released in 1990~ as a paired family of serif and sans serif faces in two weights with italics~ it was intended as a workhorse typeface for business correspondence. But the typeface proved popular in many more areas than corres.

Flickr font

Frutiger Black

Frutiger is a sans-serif typeface by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. It was commissioned in 1968 by the newly built Charles De Gaulle International Airport at Roissy, France, which needed a new directional sign system. Instead of using one of his previously designed typefaces like Univers, Frutiger chose to design a new one. The new typeface, originally called Roissy, was completed in 1975 and installed at the airport the same year.

Skype font

Arial Rounded MT Bold

Arial, sometimes marketed as Arial MT, is a sans-serif typeface and computer font packaged with Microsoft Windows. The typeface was designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders for Monotype Typography. Monotype is the current owner of the copyrights for the Arial font software programs. Arial is also a typeface family comprising standard Arial (Arial Std) and variants, including Arial Black, Bold, Extra Bold, Condensed, Italic, Light, Medium, Monospaced, Narrow, and Rounded.

Digg font

Digg Font

Actually this one is made by someone who wanted to recreate Digg`s style, because there`s no official font for it.

Facebook font

Linotype Ergo Bold

I`m not sure if this font exists, but I found this one that looks almost the same.

Twitter font

Chickens

Twitter font is a hand-tweaked version of the Chickens font from the SparkyType foundry

Youtube font

Helvetica Ultra Compressed

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Helvetica Neue 55 Roman

The “new” YouTube logo looks similarly to the original, but in a different font being used. It is called Linotype’s “Helvetica Ultra Compressed”. The words “Broadcast Yourself” are also in a different font being used, titled “Helvetica Neue 55 Roman” by Linotype.

Vimeo font

Black Rose

I belive that this is the font used by Vimeo.