Fonts Used In Logos of Popular Websites
This roundup was gathered through a combination of top notch Google-ing and What the Font?-ing. Midway through my travels across the internet, I stumbled upon a Web 2.0 logo font roundup, which is worth a look as well.
You’ve seen these fonts, now you get to learn their names:
Twitter – Pico Alphabet (Modified)
Digg – FFF Forward (Modified)
Cork’d – Triplex
Vimeo – Black Rose
Grooveshark – FF Nuvo
Envato – Agenda Italic
Tuts+ Network – Lubalin Graph
Last.fm – National (Modified)
Technorati – Neo Sans Medium
Flickr – Frutiger Black
Purevolume – Avenir Book
Youtube – Alternate Gothic No. 2
Basecamp – Whitney
Facebook – Klavika (Modified)
Engadget – Engadget Font (Close Match)
Google – Catull BQ
Yahoo – Yahoo Font
Hulu – Futura MDd BT (Modified)
Bebo – Neuropol (Modified)
TMZ – Amelia
The ONION – Eagle Bold
Mapquest – Cheap Motel
Linkedin – Myriad Pro Bold
Skype – Helvetica Rounded Bold
Revision 3 – VAG Rounded Black
Hunted, Tagged and Released Back Into the Wild
For those of you wishing to be font pioneers and create or identify logos for yourself, I would highly recommend checking out What the Font? as well as our previous article 25 Font-tastic Type Resources for Web Designers. I’ve done my best to be as accurate as possible and link to the free font downloads when I could, but please let me know if I missed anything. Also leave your thoughts and comments below, I appreciate them.
Want more famous fonts? Check out Fonts Used In Popular Band Logos for more well known typography!
