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For the first ten years of my career, I worked for Massimo Vignelli, a designer who is legendary for using a very limited number of typefaces. Between 1980 and 1990, most of my projects were set in five fonts: Helvetica, naturally, Futura, Garamond No.3, Century Expanded, and, of course, Bodoni.
Read more: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface
Here are 30 of the Best Fonts / Typefaces that every designer must own sorted by alphabetical order. There are 15 serif fonts and 15 sans-serif fonts. These fonts will last you your whole career!
Check out fonts like Adobe Caslon, Garamond, Bembo or Gill Sans!
Read more: 30 Fonts that All Designers Must Own
How many times have you heard someone exclaim “Isn't a Garamond such a beautiful thing!”... Without a doubt, it's a beautiful typeface, even if I hate to use that expression. You could just as easily say a car is beautiful and immediately ask yourself why. Of course the answer is in the way one approaches type creation. There is that method of painstakingly drawing by hand (handtooling) that gives characters that crafted aspect that gives off an air of the terroir and rural furnishings; and then there's the modern method, far more conceptual, contemporary art in such a stark break with tradition and received wisdom — which isn't to say that they are any less beautiful: But their raison-d'être is no longer simply to be so [beautiful], but to arrest, and even shock.
Read more: Garamond v Garamond
Gill Sans: Pride of England?
Gill Sans is the Helvetica of England; ubiquitous, utilitarian and yet also quite specific in its ability to point to our notions of time and place. As a graphic designer’s in-joke once put it ‘Q. How do you do British post-war design? A. Set it in Gill Sans and print it in British Racing Green’. As the preferred typeface of British establishments (the Railways, the Church, the BBC and Penguin Books), Gill Sans is part of the British visual heritage just like the Union Jack and the safety pin.
Read more: Re-evaluation of Gill Sans
Caslon types have been in existence now for about half as long as the art of typefounding has been practiced in the western world. The first Latin types produced by William Caslon in England around 270 years ago were made the way virtually all movable types had been made up to that time: they were cast one character at a time, each by hand. But typefounding has never been just a simple matter of molding hot metal. In fact, the production process that was used in Caslon's time was painstakingly intricate and included no fewer than four distinct tasks, each involving a separate set of skills.
Read more: The Art of Founding Type
When Jean-François Porchez handed me a copy of a Japanese graphic-design magazine, "Idea," while I was visiting him in Paris last month, my first impression was that it featured a very nice article about Jean-François's work as a type designer, and a cover that used one of his more unusual typefaces. The cover, it turned out, was designed by Jean-François himself, and he was the subject of an extensive, well-illustrated article, but the 200-page issue is essentially the equivalent of a short book on its topic: "Type Design Today." There are many books that don't give as thorough a snapshot of the state of modern type design as this issue of a magazine does.
Read more: Type Design Today
Arial is everywhere. If you don't know what it is, you don't use a modern personal computer. Arial is a font that is familiar to anyone who uses Microsoft products, whether on a PC or a Mac. It has spread like a virus through the typographic landscape and illustrates the pervasiveness of Microsoft's influence in the world.
Read more: The Scourge of Arial
The size and complexity of recently-developed type families has reached unprecedented levels. Look, for instance, at United, a recent release (2007) from House Industries. The family includes 105 fonts composed of three styles (sans, serif and italic), available in seven weights and five widths. It takes a couple of minutes just to scroll through all the variants listed in the font menu. For a further example of this trend, Hoefler & Frere-Jones have just released their Chronicle type family (2002-2007), the range of which extends through widths (from regular to compressed), weights (from extra light to black), and optical size (from text to headline). In terms of sheer size, Chronicle comprises 106 fonts and beats the rival United by a single stylistic variant.
Read more: Family planning, or how type families work
I have written before about my admiration for Web typography, and in that article I touched on the fact that many “Web safe” fonts can’t be applied to Linux. Linux distributions each ship with their own font libraries, but I’d like to focus on similar typefaces you can use within a font-family to help make your design bulletproof.
Read more: Linux Font Equivalents
An Interview With Stefan Hattenbach
Stefan Hattenbach started designing typefaces in 1996. In 2003, he established his own independent foundry and design studio, MAC Rhino Fonts (MRF). Proud A.S. Roma supporter and father of two, Stefan works his magic from a studio in the beautiful city of Stockholm.
Read more: Face to Face
What distinguishes a great TrueType font? Apart from the design of the font itself, there are two key marks of font quality: the character outlines and the hinting. Respectable font foundries generally produce accurate and efficient outlines. But only a few foundries currently produce fonts with hinting that exploits TrueType's potential to the full. Read more here
"Like me, America has developed a geeky obsession with fonts, the latest instance of our sophistication about design." So I read in a recent issue of Newsweek. What a relief. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one.
The Newsweek writer, Jessica Bennett, went on to build her case by noting that a documentary film about the history of one particular type font, Helvetica, played to sellout crowds last year.
Her piece followed on the heels of an article in the January/February issue of The Atlantic Monthly, in which Virginia Postrel had posited, "Basic cultural literacy now demands at least a passing familiarity with typefaces: witness a November episode of Jeopardy that featured the category 'Knowledge of Fonts,' with correct responses including 'What is Helvetica' and 'What is Bodoni?' ". Read more here
Sometimes “the standard” just isn’t good enough. Sometimes we need special tools to do the job right. Type designers understand that graphic communicators often want more choice of characters than the standard font set contains. As a result, more and more fonts are being released with large, non-standard character sets.
Demonstrative swash letters show an open regard toward surrounding letters and characters. Character strokes that wrap affectionately under or over adjacent letters are typical of these forms. You can find lots of these in fonts like Cruz Swinger, Longfellow, and Fineprint.
Fancy caps are uppercase letters with one or more swash characteristics. Buccaneer, Loire, and Buccardi are just a few of the Creative Alliance typefaces that have fancy caps in their fonts.
Biform letters are either capital letters with lowercase letter shapes or lowercase letters with capital letter shapes. The Monolith and Planet families possess two very different interpretations of biform characters.
Alternate characters also include simple substitutions like the sets of R’s and K’s in Diablo; or characters in typefaces like Epicure, Kolo, and Little Louis, in which each character is a creative tour de force.
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FontMarketplace.com is a new font website from Ascender Corp. for home and office consumers featuring affordable, high quality TrueType fonts presented in usage categories to make browsing, selecting, downloading and installation an enjoyable experience. Most other commercial font websites have a five user license as part of the base price, but FontMarketplace.com introduces a single user license to make fonts more affordable for consumers. Font prices start at $4.99 with a single user license.
Fonts are an essential part of design - but there are thousands of fonts out there, so knowing which ones to use can be quite daunting. Here's a roundup of some fonts that have found popularity recently. Check out American Typewriter, Clarendon, Din Engschrift, Frutiger, Helvetica, ITC Officina, Interstate, Myriad and VAG Rounded
.Some of today’s most popular typefaces are scripts. For adding elegance to text, there is no substitute for a script face. Formal scripts like ITC Edwardian Script Bold Alternates, Balmoral™, ITC Redonda, Gravura™, Commercial Script, Fling, ITC Edwardian Script Regular, Fling™, ITC Redonda Fancy, ITC Edwardian Script Regular Alternates, Fling Alts, ITC Edwardian Script Bold are perfect for invitations and announcements, while casual scripts such as ITC Studio Script Alternates, Limehouse™ Script, ITC Studio Script, ITC Dartangnon™, Bickley™ Script, Pristina™, ITC Studio Script Alternates 2, Pendry™ Script, Riva™ work great for projects that call for a more personal or informal touch.
Type designers have been integrating the design of sans serifs with serifed forms since the 1920s. Early examples are Edward Johnston’s design for the London Underground, and Eric Gill’s Gill Sans. These were followed by Jan van Krimpen’s Romulus Sans, Frederic Goudy’s Goudy Sans, Hermann Zapf’s Optima™, Hans Meier’s Syntax™ and Adrian Frutiger’s Frutiger™. Read more here.
Scripts are emotional, lyrical, even passionate communicators. Words that are set in script faces make an impact far greater than their literal meaning could convey. Scripts can be elegant and formal or spontaneous and funky. They can appear to be drawn by quill pen, flat-tipped brush, crayon, or felt-tipped marker. Scripts can be the stodgiest of typefaces or the most cavalier. Popular Script Fonts: Bickley Script, Brush Script, Carpenter, Citadel Script, French Script, Helinda Rook, ITC Edwardian Script Regular, Mahogany Script, Nuptial Script, Schooner Script, Shelley Allegro Script, Vivaldi, Young Baroque.
It seems that some things never go out of style. Classic roman designs and sans-serif fonts have always been at the top of every designer's lists. These fonts have withstood the test of time and the changing of design trends: Arial, Abadi, Frutiger, Futura, Gill Sans, Helvetica, Lucida, Optima, Palatino, Agfa Rotis, Univers, Broadway PosterDH.
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