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US Font Map: The United Fonts of America

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The US Font Map, featuring 222 typefaces named for American places.
What started as a quirky challenge to make a US font map during COVID-19 quarantine days started to edge into obsessive-compulsive territory.
As tempted as I was to use Mothman or Country Roads for West Virginia, the state could use some typographic love.
Native American Fonts: There are several fonts for Native American language systems available, but there’s so much opportunity here to provide new design options and help preserve endangered languages.
US Fonts by StateI have included a link below for each typeface included in the US font map, but note that there are often multiple sources for fonts both free and paid.

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