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Based on a variety of factors listed below, these are the top 100 best fonts of all time.
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To say the least, ranking fonts is an obviously hard task… how does one measure aesthetic quality, the benefit of an item, its value to humanity and so fourth?
Well, in this particular German publication, the judges ranked the fonts by their objective and various other weighted measurements:
- FontShop Sales Figures: 40%
- Historical Value/Meaning: 30%
- Aesthetic Qualities: 30%
It is also worth noting that this evaluation consisted exclusively of licensed or commercial fonts only. Free fonts or operating system fonts were not considered, nor were fonts integral to standard software (i.e. Arial, Verdana, etc.). Font variations, which over the centuries have been individually interpreted by various Foundries, were uniquely evaluated as a class and the best variant was entered into the main judging process.
Below is a preview of the top 33 fonts and beneath this image you can find the full list of the 100 best fonts.
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Top 100 Best Fonts Of All Time
Below you will find the full list of the best 100 fonts along with the designer & the year in which they were designed.
1. Helvetica [1957 – Max Miedinger]
2. Garamond [1530 – Claude Garamond]
3. Frutiger [1977 – Adrian Frutiger]
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4. Bodoni [1790 – Giambattista Bodoni]
5. Futura [1927 – Paul Renner]
6. Times [1931 – Stanley Morison]
7. Akzidenz Grotesk [1966 – G nter Gerhard Lange]
8. Officina [1990 – Erik Spiekermann]
9. Gill Sans [1930 – Eric Gill]
10. Univers [1954 – Adrian Frutiger]
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11. Optima [1954 – Hermann Zapf]
12. Franklin Gothic [1903 – Morris Fuller Benton]
13. Bembo [1496 – Francesco Griffo]
14. Interstate [1993 – Tobias Frere-Jones]
15. Thesis [1994 – Lucas de Groot]
16. Rockwell [1934 – Frank H. Pierpont]
17. Walbaum [1800 – Justus Walbaum]
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18. Meta [1991 – Erik Spiekermann]
19. Trinit [1982 – Bram De Does]
20. Din [1926 – Ludwig Goller]
21. Matrix [1986 – Zuzana Licko]
22. OCR [1965 – American Type Founders]
23. Avant Garde [1968 – Herb Lubalin]
24. Lucida [1985 – Chris Holmes / Charles Bigelow]
25. Sabon [1964 – Jan Tschichold]
26. Zapfino [1998 – Hermann Zapf]
27. Letter Gothic [1956 – Roger Roberson]
28. Stone [1987 – Summer Stone]
29. Arnhem [1998 – Fred Smeijers]
30. Minion [1990 – Robert Slimbach]
31. Myriad [1992 – Twombly & Slimbach]
32. Rotis [1988 – Olt Aicher]
33. Eurostile [1962 – Aldo Novarese]
34. Scala [1991 – Martin Majoor]
35. Syntax [1968 – Hans Eduard Meier]
36. Joanna [1930 – Eric Gill]
37. Fleishmann [1997 – Erhard Kaiser]
38. Palatino [1950 – Hermann Zapf]
39. Baskerville [1754 – John Baskerville]
40. Fedra [2002 – Peter Bil’ak]
41. Gotham [2000 – Tobias Frere-Jones]
42. Lexicon [1992 – Bram De Does]
43. Hands [1991 – Letterror]
44. Metro [1929 – W. A. Dwiggins]
45. Didot [1799 – Firmin Didot]
46. Formata [1984 – Bernd M llenst dt]
47. Caslon [1725 – William Caslon]
48. Cooper Black [1920 – Oswald B. Cooper]
49. Peignot [1937 – A. M. Cassandre]
50. Bell Gothic [1938 – Chauncey H. Griffith]
51. Antique Olive [1962 – Roger Excoffon]
52. Wilhelm Klngspor Gotisch [1926 – Rudolf Koch]
53. Info [1996 – Erik Spiekermann]
54. Dax [1995 – Hans Reichel]
55. Proforma [1988 – Petr van Blokland]
56. Today Sans [1988 – Volker K ster]
57. Prokyon [2002 – Erhard Kaiser]
58. Trade Gothic [1948 – Jackson Burke]
59. Swift [1987 – Gerald Unger]
60. Copperplate Gothic [1901 – Frederic W. Goudy]
61. Blur [1992 – Neville Brody]
62. Base [1995 – Zuzana Licko]
63. Bell Centennial [1978 – Matthew Carter]
64. News Gothic [1908 – Morris Fuller Benton]
65. Avenir [1988 – Adrian Frutiger]
66. Bernhard Modern [1937 – Lucian Bernhard]
67. Amplitude [2003 – Christian Schwartz]
68. Trixie [1991 – Erik van Blokland]
69. Quadraat [1992 – Fred Smeijers]
70. Neutraface [2002 – Christian Schwartz]
71. Nobel [1929 – Sjoerd de Roos]
72. Industria [1990 – Neville Brody]
73. Bickham Script [1997 – Richard Lipton]
74. Bank Gothic [1930 – Morris Fuller Benton]
75. Corporate ASE [1989 – Kurt Weidemann]
76. Fago [2000 – Ole Schafer]
77. Trajan [1989 – Carol Twombly]
78. Kabel [1927 – Rudolf Koch]
79. House Gothic 23 [1995 – Tal Leming]
80. Kosmik [1993 – Letterror]
81. Caecilia [1990 – Peter Matthias Noordzij]
82. Mrs Eaves [1996 – Zuzana Licko]
83. Corpid [1997 – Lucas de Groot]
84. Miller [1997 – Matthew Carter]
85. Souvenir [1914 – Morris Fuller Benton]
86. Instant Types [1992 – Just van Rossum]
87. Clarendon [1845 – Benjamin Fox]
88. Triplex [1989 – Zuzana Licko]
89. Benguiat [1989 – Ed Benguiat]
90. Zapf Renaissance [1984 – Hermann Zapf]
91. Filosofia [1996 – Zuzana Licko]
92. Chalet [1996 – House Industries]
93. Quay Sans [1990 – David Quay]
94. C zanne [1995 – Michael Want, James Grieshaber]
95. Reporter [1938 – Carlos Winkow]
96. Legacy [1992 – Ronald Arnholm]
97. Agenda [1993 – Greg Thompson]
98. Bello [2004 – Underware]
99. Dalliance [2000 – Frank Heine]
100. Mistral [1953 – Roger Excoffon]
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Further Resources:
- 100 Best Fonts PDF (In German)
- The 100 Best Fonts Website (Translated via Yahoo)
- 30 Fonts All Designers Must Know & Should Own
- How To Choose A Font
- 54 Typography Resources Every Designer Should Bookmark
So what other fonts should be included in this? What fonts shouldn’t be in this list? Vent your spleen below.
What, no comic sans 🙂
Also surprised Century Gothic isn’t on there.
I love this post
Thanks so much for including the designer and especially the year the font was created – always good to put the historical context around a font, and amazing that #2 on the list is based on a design that’s almost 500 years old.
No Trebuchet? </3
Okay, I was a bit hasty there.
“Free fonts or operating system fonts were not considered, nor were fonts integral to standard software (i.e. Arial, Verdana, etc.).”
I think Trebuchet falls in there. As does Century Gothic, I presume.
great list, except one thing: no Centaur. Screw Trebuchet. no Centaur. Can’t please us all, eh? 😉
I have to agree that that is a good list. I love the fancy fonts like the ones that are often used for weddings and such. they look so nice and professional.
Yeah, Kabel made the list, one of my favorites. They should do a best system fonts. It might be a short list though. But if they did that article they’d have to set the entire article in Papyrus and Comic Sans. That sounds so bad it would almost be good. ALMOST.
Great post as usual Jacob.
Filosofia and Mrs Eaves deserved a better position, they are simply amazing fonts.
Thanks a lot for this great list.
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I guess my slight issue with this list is that some of the top typefaces are also criticized for being the most over used, and very “un-designer”-esque. It’s somewhat of an oxymoron listing helvetica as the top font of all time, and in a similar link listing it as the most over used, and in a similar link identifying it as a font that “pseudo” designers use b/c they don’t know better. It baffles me that so many will praise this font, yet an equal amount of people will bash it. It’s the same case with other faces as well.
pettiness aside, it’s a solid list; thanks for posting it.
And yet you only need 10, if you know how to use them.
oo.Thanks!
Very interesting list.
I am surprised that Century Gothic isn’t on it though
Century Gothic is bad font, you really need to start using Avant Garde or Avian.
I have the PDF of this list, visually brilliant, but it’s only available in German unfortunately.
Gotham is slowly becoming my favourite.
Excellent stuff!
And thanks for the link Jacob. 🙂
Thanks for putting this together. Always good to see how fonts emerge, adapt, change or dissolve away from the social and design stratum.
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No any of M$ cleartype fonts (like segoe, calibri, consolas …)? I’m looking for a nice monospaced font to use in Intellij Idea in Linux (Jaunty). Consolas looks good in Windows, but worse than Bitstream Vera Sans Mono in Jaunty.
Great list, there are some fonts in the top 33 I’ve never heard of which is surprising. Also surprising that Avant Garde and Avenir aren’t in the top. Kinda sad really.
Great list mate, I’m gonna have to collect the ones I don’t have!
Correction, Avant Garde is in the top.. good to see. Still.. some of these are somewhat unsettling.. Zapfino in the top 33.. OUCH
Thats alot of fonts to have, but like the first guy said (Kolbe) 10 fonts would be all you might need. Maybe 20 max.
Great list, really great, allthough not many surprises.
However, I wish that pdf could be translated into English – if I just knew German, had it a year in school and all I can do is count to ten:)
Great compilation, one more time.
excellent article! i personally feel bad that I misuse Officina, Meta, Eurostile, and Lucida a lot.
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Where is Times New Roman and Arial? I can’t find #1 on my PC anywhere?
Copperplate at 60!?! What kind of list is this? There is only 1 font you need, copperplategothicbold.com
Also confused about the lack of Georgia. Probably my favorite website font. So classy.
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Thank you all for your comments and you’re welcome.
Laslo, RyanC, Aetoric,
“It is also worth noting that this evaluation consisted exclusively of licensed or commercial fonts only. Free fonts or operating system fonts were not considered, nor were fonts integral to standard software (i.e. Arial, Verdana, etc.). Font variations, which over the centuries have been individually interpreted by various Foundries, were uniquely evaluated as a class and the best variant was entered into the main judging process.”
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I’ve used eurostile for years!
I started work in the Print industry when we used the term “hot metal”. I was a Compositor picking up metal letters from a Case and setting them into lines of type in a Typestick. Most memorable typefaces at that time were Helvetica, Times, Gill, Plantin and Palace Script.
By the time I had completed my 6 year Apprenticeship, I could recognise and name just about every typeface in existance at that time. We had to, it was one of the important and necessary qualifications of the job.
All the best, from a not too old a person,
Steve.
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It’s interesting to see where each font falls in order, would not have expected a couple listed in the top 10.. but there they were!
Jacob, great job on listing the years of when the font was created.. and the name of the person who was responsible for the font.
Glad to see Helvetica in spot #1
It would be interesting to see how this list would change if you factored in the font “sales” that come with every operating system. Comic Sans, Times New Roman and Courier would have definitely made the list.
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Bodoni 1970?
The right date is 1790, of course.
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This list is HIGHLY debateable. Why? Because there are a TON of fonts out there that are made for specific things, such as design elements in any given graphic design, such as Bokonon and Final Lap, but I don’t hear anyone saying anything about those fonts. This list is EXTREMELY subjective, because it all has to do with what you’re using the typeface for. If it’s for use as copy for the body of a page layout, then yeah, Helvetica, Arial, and so on are good fonts to use, but if you want to use a font as a design element, then you’d need a font that has the right look, if you know what I mean.
This is a great list that they have compiled and for commercial fonts I think it has a large number of ones I would of choosen as well as a few new ones to investigate.
I did one of my daily “typography is everything” series based on the top 4:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/3333022851/
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Vincent,
I have viewed my site on many, many computers and have never seen that problem of which you have told me about. Is it only on your computer that this happens?
And helvetica works for body text in my opinion, very easy to read and great looking!
GraphicArtist,
I do realise that something like this is highly debatable, and it’s not going to please all but none the less, it is still a valuable resource.
Simon,
Thanks for your link to your typography series, quite interesting.
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I like helvetica, but if you have ever looked at your site on a Win/PC, is it hard to read. Helvetica looks terrible as body text, the letters come out all different sizes and the top line looks like a rolling wave. If you are interested, email me and I will show you a screenshot. A lot of popular blogs are hard for us Win/PC users to read and it seems that since Helvetica looks so good on a Mac or through Safari that most designers don’t realize it.
I thought I would share what I meant: http://twitpic.com/1vqp4
I wish more prominent designers would spread the word that helvetica should not be used for body text 🙂
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Thanks for the list, definate classics! Another one of my fav’s: Aperto.
Jacob,
I love this post. I still struggle with fonts and this list will help.
Hi Jacob,
Great list. Thanks. I’d be interested in knowing if you have any personal favourites? Keep up the great articles. Cheers!
Anthony,
Well this website is set in Helvetica so that is one hint, but I also love Gill Sans, Bodoni & Rockwell as my personal favs.
nice list Jacob. Most of them are some of my favorite also, like Helvetica, Rockwell, Myriad, and Futura to name a few. Keep it up!
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I always prefer and linke Century Gothic & Halvitica.Nice collection.
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I’m liking the list Jacob, keep up the good work.
Futura where are you?
#5….Didn’t even see it there, damn….
Futura for the win.
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For anyone complaining about the lack of Arial: Arial is just a copy of Helvetica!
http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html
Helvetica all the way!
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I love avant-garde and eurostile, thanks for this!
I have to agree that is a good list. All are look so nice and professional.But where is Verdana and Arial?
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And which ones of those are supported by default by browsers (Firefox, Chrome, and IE)
I find it hard to believe that Trajan … One of the most used fonts in cinema titles … is number 77 … Hows That?
I feel like the one designer/design student who isn’t a big fan of Helvetica…is that wrong? It’s overused by designers like Comic Sans is overused by schoolchildren, I’m frankly a bit bored of it.
That said, it’s a brilliantly designed and versatile font, admitted. 😀
I guess my slight issue with this list is that some of the top typefaces are also criticized for being the most over used, and very “un-designerâ€-esque. It’s somewhat of an oxymoron listing helvetica as the top font of all time, and in a similar link listing it as the most over used, and in a similar link identifying it as a font that “pseudo†designers use b/c they don’t know better. It baffles me that so many will praise this font, yet an equal amount of people will bash it. It’s the same case with other faces as well.
pettiness aside, it’s a solid list; thanks for posting it.
All are gorgeous typefaces
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Nice list, other than cooper black, I hate it personally, though its ok used in the right situation but more often than not it isn’t, like the old Cooper Tire logo, just because the names are the same doesn’t mean it is the right choice.
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This is an excellent post …
I use HelveticaNeuveLt on Most of My Design Work
I Love It…
Thanks …
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33 best fonts!
Ultimately Helvetica is in the first place ’cause is the most used font in the whole world. Definitely is very practical and clear.
Having thousands of fonts to work with, it’s so difficult to say which one is the best (not the most beautiful), but when works comes and comes and the clients ask for changes, is easy to understand why this font is the winner. The clients wants some clear texts and us wants less changes.
We (the designers) have other fonts that we will use in our own projects and maybe with some “Art Lover” client.
Good post.
Correcting the last part of the first paragraph of my comment. “The clients wants some clear texts and we want less changes.” Thank you.
Hey where is monotype corsiva. That the most one of the pretty looking fonts.
Great list of FONTS, these are really good looking fonts for new trend websites!!! Thanks
Great list! My all time fav has to be Rotis collection!
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I just completed a survey based on a reasonably large sample of favorite fonts from blogs, websites, sales charts, and a lot independent discussion from blogs and forums. I tallied all the names and number of references from all these sources and came up with this combined result:
http://bonfx.com/19-top-fonts-most-preferred-by-graphic-designers-from-around-the-web/
All the fonts I found are, of course, on the big German list. But it was cool to see that of the top 10 font for both lists, 7 fonts overlap, but my data was purely based on the opinion of the self-reporting font-loving designers who took the time to post.
I would gather that people for whom Comic Sans is their font of choice, they were to embarrassed to admit it online 🙂
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I love the fancy fonts like the ones that are often used for weddings and such. they look so nice and professional.
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Why free fonts were not included? Just because it was not possible to estimate sales figures?
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Vincent,
Either you have a very bad clone with Helvetica posing as “Helvetica” on your system or the browser you’re using is not rendering Helv correctly.
I have Helvetica and never have had the wavy-text problem with it when using it as body text on websites. Though I prefer to use Verdana if it’s going to be screen display text as not everyone owns a copy of Helvetica on their system.
Lenok,
Exactly. What sales figures? They’re FREE fonts. Also very hard to track a history for many free fonts as often times, we don’t know where it came from and who designed it. Other considerations such as legality for commercial use and whether or not it’s a clone of an existing font, etc.
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Thanks for the post. Well for me the best font is the Garamond, I often used it.
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I like Optima and Myriad, although others are great! I agree with first comment – in reality you just simply need only 10 to create many more!
Thanks,
Alex
Will we ever be free of the tyranny of Helvetica!?!? That typeface haunts me everywhere, give me Baskerville any day.
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Very nice list friend! I admire Trajan and Stone
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and Century Gothic 🙁
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These are some good fonts. I work for an interactive marketing agency and we use a few of these when we do web design. We might try a few of these others. Thanks!
Where’s VAG Rounded?
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Interesting list. Blur – now there’s a font I haven’t seen for a while!
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I’m in year 12 and have been using these font for years in all my designing. Futura is defanitely one of my favourtires.
Thanks for posting this up 🙂
Century Gothic is Microsoft’s version (copy) of Futura.
Excellent stuff!!! Wonderful fonts, thankful for the list Jacob. I often used this and love to struggles with this fonts. Thanks for this, cool.
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Excelent list of fonts. Thanks for sharing.
I wish I could download these in one package?
Love a bit of Impact!
My favorite is #26. Zapfino, I love cursive fonts. ?
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Oh! Such classic fonts! You can use them everywhere- they are so organic and in the same time traditional! Thanks for the review!
Great list but why no to list some nice handwriting ones?
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English version now online: http://www.100besttypefaces.com/
The original font ranking by FontShop is now available in English:
http://www.100besttypefaces.com/
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What about Comic Sans? 😉
To say the least, ranking fonts is an obviously hard task… how does one measure aesthetic quality, the benefit of an item, its value to humanity and so fourth?
Hi cherish,
we did the original ranking and here is how we did it: http://www.100besttypefaces.com/index.php?kategorie=about&artikel=Scoring%20Criteria
It would be great if these ‘most popular fonts’ were installed in Windows as standard, this would give web developers some future spare to design sites with these in mind.
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Great article but where is Quicksand I love that font! 🙂
Nice collection of fonts. I like the thesis-thesis font .
Thank you for presenting your points and providing this information. I have learned something about this topic
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What no Bookman Bold . . . . . . don’t have my glasses are there NO serif typestyles
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I’d add Melior and Perpetua.
“Today Sans [1988 – Volker K ster]” is best font for about us page.. Thanks for sharing these fonts. I wait for your next post.
Excellent stuff!!! Wonderful fonts, thankful for the list Jacob. I often used this and love to struggles with this fonts. Thanks for this, cool.
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Great fonts how i can use this font in my website
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Thanks Jacob for the best of fonts to use list sharing with us. Now at least i got to know which is popular or best in market and good to use. Very informative and universal guide for user.
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Wonderful fonts, thankful for this great list Jacob. Installed some in Windows7.
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