Good Typefaces. 680pt Adobe Garamond. Humanist/ Old Style Serif Adobe Garamond Garamond Goudy Hoefler

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1 30 Good Typefaces 680pt Adobe Garamond Franklin Gothic Demi Humanist/ Old Style Serif Adobe Garamond Garamond Goudy Hoefler Transitional Serif Baskerville Caslon Minion Mrs.Eaves Perpetua Times New Roman Modernist Serif Bodoni Didot Walbaum Slab Serif Century Schoolbook Clarendon Rockwell Sans Serif Akzidenz Grotesk Bell Gothic Franklin Gothic Frutiger Futura Gill Sans Helvetica Helvetica Neue Meta Myriad News Gothic Trade Gothic Univers Verdana

2 Adobe Garamond Humanist/Old Style Serif 700pt Adobe Garamond was designed by Robert Slimbach in The roman weights were based on the true Garamond, and the italics on those of punchcutter Robert Granjon. This font has been expanded to include small caps, titling caps, expert fonts, and swash caps, which were typical in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

3 agaramond Humanist /Old StyleSerif 700pt Claude Garamond, a Frenchman, designed the Garamond typeface in the 1500s. It is a Humanist serif face, which means that it was designed with rounded, organic characteristics that echoes handwritten letters. Its contrast between thin and thick strokes is less than a Transitional typeface like Baskerville, but more than most sans serif faces. NOTE THE EXAMPLES OF POOR PATH QUALITY WHICH INDICATE THAT THIS IS AN INFERIOR (PROBABLY AUTOTRACED) VERSION OF GARAMOND DO NOT USE IT.

4 agoudy Humanist/Old Style Serif 700pt Goudy Old Style (also known as just Goudy) is an old-style classic serif typeface originally created by Frederic W. Goudy for American Type Founders (ATF) in Certain of its attributes most notably the gently curved, rounded serifs of certain glyphs suggest a Venetian influence.

5 ahoefler Humanist Serif 700pt Designed by Jonathan Hoefler in 1991, Hoefler Text is a contemporary serif Antiqua font that was designed for Apple Computer to demonstrate advanced type technologies. It takes cues from a range of classic fonts, such as Garamond and Janson. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR STU -

6 abaskerville Transitional Serif 700pt Baskerville is a transitional serif typeface designed in 1757 by John Baskerville ( ) in Birmingham, England. Baskerville is classified as a transitional typeface, positioned between the old style typefaces of William Caslon, and the modern styles of Giambattista Bodoni & Firmin Didot.

7 acaslon Transitional Serif 700pt Caslon is a group of serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I ( ), and various revivals thereof. Caslon shares the irregularity characteristic of Dutch Baroque types. It is characterized by short ascenders and descenders, bracketed serifs, moderately high contrast, robust texture, and moderate modulation of stroke.

8 aminion Transitional Serif Minion is a digital typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in 1990 for Adobe Systems. The name comes from the traditional naming system for type sizes, in which minion is between nonpareil and brevier. It is inspired by late Renaissance-era type

9 amrs.eaves Transitional Serif 800pt Mrs Eaves is a transitional serif typeface designed by Zuzana Licko in 1996, and licensed by Emigre, a typefoundry run by Licko and husband Rudy VanderLans. Mrs Eaves is named after Sarah Eaves, the woman who became John Baskerville s wife. VWXYZ

10 aperpetua Transitional Serif 800pt Perpetua is a typeface that was designed by English sculptor and typeface designer Eric Gill ( ).Though not designed in the historical period of transitional type, Perpetua can be classified with transitional typefaces because of characteristics such as high stroke contrast and bracketed serifs. VWXYZ VWXYZ

11 atimes New Roman Transitional Serif 700pt Times New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper The Times in 1931, created by Victor Lardent. It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and typographically antiquated. - -

12 abodoni Modernist Serif 700pt Bodoni is a series of serif typefaces first designed by Giambattista Bodoni ( ) in The typeface is classified as Didone modern. Bodoni followed the ideas found in the printing type Baskerville: increased stroke contrast and a more vertical, slightly condensed, upper case; but took them to a more extreme conclusion.

13 adidot Modernist Serif 700pt Along with Giambattista Bodoni of Italy, Firmin Didot is credited with designing and establishing the use of the Modern classification of typefaces. The types that Didot used are characterized by extreme contrast in thick strokes and thin strokes, by the use of hairline serifs and by the vertical stress of the letters.

14 awalbaum Modernist Serif Designed in the early 1800 s by Justus Walbaum. Its vertical stress, and fine hairlines contrast with bold of typical Modern fonts, yet Walbaum has many unique character quirks that make it open, warm, and very graceful. - -

15 acentury Schoolbook Slab Serif Century is a family of type faces derived from the original Century Roman cut by American Type Founders designer Linn Boyd Benton in Despite originating in the nineteenth century, use of the typeface remains strong, for periodicals, textbooks, and literature.

16 aclarendon Slab Serif 550pt Clarendon is an English slabserif typeface that was created in England by Robert Besley in The font was used extensively by the government of the German Empire for proclamations during World War I, and was also common in wanted posters of the American Old West. VWXYZ 9/10.8

17 arockwell Slab Serif The original Rockwell was produced by the Inland typefoundry in 1910, with Morris Fuller Benton cutting several new weights in the 1920s. Rockwell is a geometric slab serif, a strong display face for headlines and legible in short text blocks. - -

18 aakzidenz Grotesk Sans Serif Akzidenz-Grotesk is a grotesque (early sans-serif) typeface originally released by the Berthold Type Foundry in 1896 under the name Accidenz-Grotesk. It was the first sans serif typeface to be widely used and influenced many later neogrotesque typefaces after

19 abell Gothic Humanist Sans Serif 700pt Bell Gothic is a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Chauncey H. Griffith in 1938 while heading the typographic development program at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. The typeface was commissioned by AT&T as a proprietary typeface for use in telephone directories.

20 afranklin Gothic Sans Serif Franklin Gothic and its related faces are realist sans-serif typefaces originated by Morris Fuller Benton ( ) in Gothic is an increasingly archaic term meaning sans-serif. Franklin Gothic has been used in many advertisements and headlines in newspapers. VWXYZ VWXYZ

21 afrutiger Sans Serif Frutiger is a sans-serif typeface by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. It was commissioned in 1968 by the newly built Charles de Gaulle International Airport at Roissy, France, which needed a new directional sign system. Instead of using one of his previously designed typefaces like Univers, Frutiger chose to design a new one. VWXYZ

22 afutura Geometric Sans Serif Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed in 1927 by Paul Renner. It was designed as a contribution on the New Frankfurtproject. It is based on geometric shapes that became representative of visual elements of the Bauhaus design style of

23 agill Sans Humanist Sans Serif 700pt The successful Gill Sans was issued by Monotype in 1928 to The roots of Gill Sans can be traced to the typeface that Gill s teacher, Edward Johnston, designed for the signage of the London Underground Railway in VWXYZ

24 ahelvetica Sans Serif Helvetica was developed in 1957 by Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann. The aim of the new design was to create a neutral typeface that had great clarity, had no intrinsic meaning in its form, and could be used on a wide variety of signage.

25 ahelvetica Neue Sans Serif Neue Helvetica is a reworking of the typeface with a more structurally unified set of heights and widths. Erik Spiekermann was the design consultant (1983). Changes include improved legibility, heavier punctuation marks, and increased spacing in the numbers. VWXYZ

26 aff Meta Humanist Sans Serif FF Meta is a humanist sans-serif typeface family designed by Erik Spiekermann in Attention was paid to creating a face that was a sturdy, basic sans serif easily readable from an angle, and in smaller point sizes. VWXYZ VWXYZ VWXYZ VWXYZ

27 amyriad Pro Humanist Sans Serif Myriad is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly for Adobe Systems in Myriad is easily distinguished from other sans-serif fonts due to its special y descender (tail) and slanting e cut. Myriad is similar to Frutiger. VWXYZ VWXYZ VWXYZ

28 anews Gothic Sans Serif News Gothic is a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton in The letter forms are compact, and descenders are shallow. The typeface differs in its organic shapes and subtle transitions of stroke width, all contributing to a less severe, humanist tone of voice. VWXYZ VWXYZ

29 atrade Gothic Sans Serif Trade Gothic is a sans-serif typeface first designed in 1948 by Jackson Burke. Trade Gothic does not display as much unifying family structure as other sansserifs (Futura, Helvetica, Univers, Frutiger), but this dissonance is typical of hand-worked typefaces. - -

30 Univers Humanist Sans Serif Univers is the name of a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in With Univers, Frutiger began using numbers rather than names to designate variations of weight, width, and slope. The full Univers family consists of 21 typefaces - - VWXYZ

31 averdana Sans Serif Verdana is a humanist sansserif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation. The large x- height, wide proportions, large counters, and distinctions between similarly-shaped characters increase legibility. - - abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv wxyz ABCDEFGHJKLMNOP QRSTU abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv wxyz ABCDEFGHJKLMNOP QRSTU