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The original styles of Whitman Display have found a home in newspapers, magazines, and books. The expansion of the family into heavier weights should provide even more opportunity for attention-grabbing headlines and a variety of typographic colors. Here are just a few examples of Whitman Display in use in the real world. Some of the publications that use Whitman Display:
If you are aware of other uses of Whitman Display, or have used it in a project yourself, please let me know or send me a sample. |
The Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) is remarkable for using only serif types for its primary typography, no sans serif. The display palette consists of Whitman Display for the news headlines, a custom version of the slab-serif Popular for section heads and feature stories, and TheSerif in a supporting role for decks, summaries, and captions.
The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) divides headline duties between Whitman Display and FB Agenda. This sample is from the first page of their B section (local news), where Whitman takes the lead.
Brides magazine likes to mix it up with a combination of Relay, Meyer Two, Biscotti, and Whitman Display for their display typography. The original Whitman text fonts are used for the somewhat rare instances of serif body text. |