By Jacob Cass
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!
A brief description of what each font is best suited for is provided however are not limited to this.
There are some top free cool 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! They include original PC, Mac and Truetype fonts.
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Magazines, journals, text books, corporate communication.
Textbooks and magazines
Posters, packaging, textbooks.
Headlines, text, logos. (I couldn’t get big preview for this font.)
Dictionaries and headlines.
Tabular materials, technical documentation, word processing.
Newsletters, Reports, Proposals.
Low resolution printing, small point sizes, reversed out half tones.
Limited edition books, newsletters, packaging.
For displays with fine lettering, long pages of text, chiseled text.
Books and corporate communication.
For displays and fine publications that need a legible text type.
Newspapers, magazines, corporate communication.
Books, magazines, posters, billboards, anything to do with the ages or religion.
Magazines, journals, text books, corporate communication.
Large Signage, all purpose for print media.
For books with large amounts of text
For listings and very poor printing conditions.
For very small amounts of text that contains large amounts of information.
For signage, posters and displays.
Newspapers and where available space is limited.
Large signage, all purpose font for print media.
Large displays, small text in books.
Signage, all purpose font for print media.
Large or small text, all purpose type figure.
Text, number, especially corporate communication.
Large displays, all purpose media.
Newspapers and classified ads, advertising, multimedia.
Packaging, signage, text books.
Instruction manuals and print advertising.
Source: From the book “30 Essential Typefaces for a Lifetime” by Imin Pao and Joshya Berger. A history of typography is also found in this book as well as more information on each font and the designer.
Read original: 30 Fonts that All Designers Must Own
Design and graphics
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