The United Fonts of America

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Andy Murdock (Co-Founder of The Statesider) set out to create The United Fonts of America map of all the fonts named after actual locations in the U.S.

Just how many fonts are named for American places?

The answer is 222. That’s not actually the answer, it’s just where I had to stop, because the more I looked the more I found. What started as a quirky challenge to make a US font map during COVID-19 quarantine days started to edge into obsessive-compulsive territory. I’d wake up in the middle of the night thinking, “Did I check to see if there’s a Boise font?” (I did. There isn’t.) I finally found the limit to how many fonts I could use in one place.

Andy’s full post about his design journey is a good read, including the challenges of multiple fonts using the same name over the years. He also has links to all of the fonts included, some free and some paid.

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