80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design

• By Vitaly Friedman
• August 8th, 2007
• Downloads, Fonts, Freebies
• 217 Comments

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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

ProcessTypeFoundry

32. Seravek

ProcessTypeFoundry

33. FF Kievit

Source

34. Ronnia

Typetogether

35. Stella

Feliciano Type Foundry

36. Le Monde Courrier

Le Monde Courrier, € 167.4 for 2 PCs

37. Parisine PTF

Parisine PTF, € 210 for 8 PCs

38. Freight

Source

39. Guardian

Christian Schwartzl

40. Anomoly

41. PMN Caecilia

42. Leitura

Source / DSType

43. The Mix

Source

44. Stalemate

45. Neo Sans

Source

46. Felbridge

Felbridge, £29.00 per font

47. Trade Gothic

48. Karmina

Typetogether

49. FF Milo

Source: Typographica.org

50. Auto

Source

51. Soho

Source

52. Kepler

Source

53. Depot

Chris Dickinson

54. Relato Sans

Source

55. Priva Pro

DSType

56. Relato Serif

Source

57. Alber

Chris Dickinson

58. Palatino Sans & Informal

Source

59. Fedra Sans

Source

60. Olga

Source

61. Depot

Chris Dickinson

62. Priva Pro

DSType

63. Whitman

Source

64. Productus

Source

65. Tempelhof

Günter Schwarzmaier

66. Amira

Source

67. Krart

Source

68. Tang

Source

69. Dederon Sans

Source

70. Samuels Family

(Images: MyFonts Newsletter)

71. Untitled

Source

72. Greta Text

Source

73. FF Sanuk

74. Houschka

75. Scene

Source

76. Amplitude

Source

77. Insider

Characters.nl

78. Preface

79. Flex

Source

80. Halvorsen

Source

81. Xtra Sans

Source

Foretaste for one of our next posts:
The Future of Typography

82. Obliqua (in development)

Source

83. Muestra Urbana (in development)

Source

83. Wingardium

Source

84. Tauran Regular

Source

85. Mello Sans

Source