As the unique look of Scriptorium fonts gets discovered by more and more graphic designers we've started to run into the occasional title font that looks awfully familiar. We love these sightings -- even more when the fonts have actually been paid for -- and we want to discover more of them.

So here's the deal. If you spot a Scriptorium font in prominent use in a major media release (magazine, book, movie or other commercial product), let us know about the sighting. Before you tell us, try to make sure it's really one of our fonts because there are a few which look a bit like some other fonts which are out there, though there are always differences you can catch with a sharp eye. If you can provide a copy of the appearance that's even better. We'll pick one sighting a month and send the sighter a free disk of fonts. It's not a huge reward, but looking for sightings might be a fun little diversion.

Fonts which seem to be showing up a lot in popular use which are easy to identify as ours are Abaddon, Kelmscott, Yazata and Boswell, so keep an eye out for those ones in particular.

Here's our first sighting. Abaddon appears as the main title font on the cover of the box for the video release of the new H. P. Lovecraft based film Necronomicon. It's an excellent choice for a horror film title design. We just wish they'd also used it in the credits and titles in the film itself, though the font choices there are also good, marred only by their non-scriptorium origin. The film is worth checking out. It's a fairly substantial effort, a trilogy of Lovecraftian tales from three directors including Brian Yuzna. Any info on who did the graphic design on this package would be of interest.

Keep an eye out for more sightings here soon.