86 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design
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Every now and again designers stumble upon the very same problem: the choice of a unique and beautiful typeface which manages to fulfill three basic tasks. Support the corporate identity, enrich the visual appearance and is compatible with the overall design. However, usually there are simply too many options you can consider, which is why you need time to find the option you are most comfortable with. Although the choice usually depends on clients’ requirements, it is necessary to have some pretty starting points for your font decision.
So which typefaces are “bulletproof”? What fonts can be used effectively in almost every Corporate Design? And what are the options for unique, but still incredibly beautiful typefaces?
We have answers. Over the last few days we’ve browsed through dozens of type foundries, read dozens of designers’ articles about typography, analyzed font rankings and visited bookmarked font-related suggestions. So this post has ‘em all. Well, OK, at least many of them.
Let’s take a look at over 80 gorgeous typefaces for professional design, based upon suggestions from designers and web-developers all over the world. Most screenshots are taken from the foundries and provided specimens – particularly on Veer.com and Fontshop.com.
Classic Typefaces
Classics of typography in a brief overview. You will find even more traditional typefaces on the site 100 Best Fonts, including history, development and related information.
1. Helvetica

2. Helvetica Neue

3. Univers

4. Frutiger

5. Avenir


6. Myriad Pro

7. Neuzeit

8. Syntax

9. Proxima Nova

10. Proxima Sans

11. Glasgow

12. Charlotte Sans

13. Precious Sans


14. Gill Sans

15. Lisboa

16. Franklin Gothic

17. Futura

18. EF TV Nord 1

19. FF Scala

20. Rockwell

21. Eurostile

22. Warnock

23. FF DIN

24. FF Meta


25. Officina

26. FF Dax

27. DF Dynasty

28. Akzidenz-Grotesk


29. AG Book


30. Precious Serif

Further Typefaces
The fonts listed below aren’t so well-known. Thus you can use them for unique corporate identity or user interfaces which are supposed to have a “fresh” look.
31. Locator

32. Seravek

33. FF Kievit


34. Ronnia

35. Stella

36. Le Monde Courrier
Le Monde Courrier, € 167.4 for 2 PCs
37. Parisine PTF
Parisine PTF, € 210 for 8 PCs
38. Freight

39. Guardian

40. Anomoly

41. PMN Caecilia


42. Leitura

43. The Mix

44. Stalemate


45. Neo Sans

46. Felbridge
Felbridge, £29.00 per font
47. Trade Gothic

48. Karmina

49. FF Milo


Source: Typographica.org
50. Auto

51. Soho

52. Kepler

53. Depot

54. Relato Sans

55. Priva Pro

56. Relato Serif

57. Alber

58. Palatino Sans & Informal

59. Fedra Sans

60. Olga

61. Depot

62. Priva Pro

63. Whitman

64. Productus

65. Tempelhof

66. Amira

67. Krart

68. Tang

69. Dederon Sans

70. Samuels Family

(Images: MyFonts Newsletter)
71. Untitled

72. Greta Text

73. FF Sanuk

74. Houschka

75. Scene

76. Amplitude

77. Insider

78. Preface

79. Flex

80. Halvorsen

81. Xtra Sans

Foretaste for one of our next posts:
The Future of Typography
82. Obliqua (in development)

83. Muestra Urbana (in development)

84. Wingardium

85. Tauran Regular

86. Mello Sans

Popularity: 54% [?]



2 Responses to “86 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design”
By Raphael
on Mar 14, 2008 | Reply
why u don t ad no script font? just like “ZAPFINO” makes extensive use of ligatures and character variations its fantastic, maybe u like
By Hii Hiong Ching
on Mar 16, 2008 | Reply
Hi! Raphael. Thanks for your idea. Cheers!