Monday, August 17, 2009

30 Fonts that All Designers Must Know and Should Own

Here are 30 fonts that every designer must or should own sorted by alphabetical order. There are 15 Serif fonts and 15 Sans Serif fonts. These fonts will help you in your whole working career! The info and images are provided by Just Creative Design.


Adobe Caslon (Serif font)

Magazines, journals, text books and corporate communication.



Adobe Garamond (Serif font)

Textbooks and magazines.


Bembo (Serif font)

Posters, packaging and textbooks.


Bodoni (Serif font)

Headlines, text and logos.


Clarendon (Serif font)

Dictionaries and headlines.



Courier (Serif font)

Tabular materials, technical documentation and word processing.



Excelsior (Serif font)

Newsletters, reports and proposals.



Lucida (Serif font)

Low resolution printing, small point sizes and reversed out half tones.


Minion (Serif font)

Limited edition books, newsletters and packaging.


Perpetua (Serif font)

For displays with fine lettering, long pages of text and chiseled text.



Sabon (Serif font)

Books and corporate communication.


Stempel Schneidler (Serif font)

For displays and fine publications that need a legible text type.


Times New Roman (Serif font)

Newspapers, magazines and corporate communication.


Trajan (Serif font)

Books, magazines, posters, billboards and anything to do with the ages or religion.


Walbaum (Serif font)

Magazines, journals, text books and corporate communication.


Akzidenz Grotesk (Sans-serif font)

Large signage and all purpose for print media.


Avenir (Sans-serif font)

For books with large amounts of text.



Bell Centennial (Sans-serif font)


For listings and very poor printing conditions.



Bell Gothic (Sans-serif font)


For very small amounts of text that contains large amounts of information.



Din (Sans-serif font)


For signage, posters and displays.



Franklin Gothic (Sans-serif font)

Newspapers and where available space is limited.

Frutiger (Sans-serif font)

Large signage and all purpose font for print media.



Futura (Sans-serif font)


Large displays and small text in books.


Gill Sans (Sans-serif font)

Signage and all purpose font for print media.


Helvetica (Sans-serif font)

Large or small text and all purpose type figure.


Meta (Sans-serif font)


Text, number and especially corporate communication.



Myriad (Sans-serif font)


Large displays and all purpose media.



Trade Gothic (Sans-serif font)

Newspaper, classified ads, advertising and multimedia.


Univers (Sans-serif font)

Packaging, signage and text books.


Vag Rounded (Sans-serif font)

Instruction manuals and print advertising.

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