Here are 30 of the Best Fonts / Type Faces 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!
A brief description of what each font is best suited for is provided however are not limited to this.
There are some free fonts that are downloadable in this collection and some that come with your operating system… the others are not so free but they sure will help you improve your typography!
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15 Serif Fonts
What does serif mean?
1. Adobe Caslon
Magazines, journals, text books, corporate communication.
2. Adobe Garamond
Textbooks and magazines
3. Bembo
Posters, packaging, textbooks.
4. BodoniHeadlines, text, logos. (I couldn’t get big preview for this font.)
5. Clarendon
Dictionaries and headlines.
6. Courier
Tabular materials, technical documentation, word processing.
7. ExcelsiorNewsletters, Reports, Proposals.
8. LucidaLow resolution printing, small point sizes, reveresed out half tones.
9. MinionLimited edition books, newsletters, packaging.
10. PerpetuaFor displays with fine lettering, long pages of text, chiseled text.
11. Sabon
Books and corporate communication.
12. Stempel SchneidlerFor displays and fine publications that need a legible text type.
13. Times New RomanNewspapers, magazines, corporate communication.
14. Trajan
Books, magazines, posters, billboards, anything to do with the ages or religion.
15. Walbaum
Magazines, journals, text books, corporate communication.
15 Sans-Serif Fonts
What does sans-serif mean?
1. Akzidenz Grotesk
Large Signage, all purpose for print media.
2. AvenirFor books with large amounts of text
3. Bell Centennial For listings and very poor printing conditions.
4. Bell GothicFor very small amounts of text that cotains large amounts of information.
5. DINFor signage, posters and displays.
6. Franklin GothicNewspapers and where avaialble space is limited.
7. FrutigerLarge signage, all purpose font for print media.
8. FuturaLarge displays, small text in books.
9. Gill SansSignage, all purpose font for print media.
10. HelveticaLarge or small text, all purpose type figure.
11. MetaText, number, especially corporate communication.
12. MyriadLarge displays, all purpose media.
13. Trade GothicNewspapers and classified ads, advertising, multimedia.
14. UniversPackaging, signage, text books.
15. Vag RoundedInstruction manuals and print advertising.
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What are your favourite 3 fonts? Any fonts that should or shouldn’t be here?
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