Top 100 Best Fonts for Graphic Designers (2021)
What are the most popular & best fonts that professional graphic designers use?
Based on a variety of factors — Sales, Historical Value/Meaning, Aesthetic Qualities — these are the top 100 best fonts of all time, perfect for professional graphic designers!
We’ve compiled an ultimate list of 100+ essential fonts for designers and shown the top 10 fonts in each category of type including: sans-serif, serif, slab serif, display, vintage, script, luxury and more.
The Best Fonts For Graphic Designers 2021
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- Best Sans Serif Fonts
- Best Free Sans Serif Fonts
- Best Serif Fonts
- Best Slab Serif Fonts
- Best Display Fonts
- Best Script Fonts
- Best Luxury Fonts
- Best Signature Fonts
- Best Variable Fonts
- Best Vintage Fonts
- Best Handwritten Fonts
- Best Font Combinations
- Editor’s Top 38 Fonts
- Top 100 Best Fonts of All Time
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Top 100 Best Fonts For Graphic Designers (Free & Paid)
10 Best Sans Serif Fonts
- Brandon Grotesque
- FF DIN®
- Proxima Nova
- Gilroy™
- Mont™
- Avenir Next®
- Cera Pro™
- Panton
- TT Commons
- Museo Sans™
- Helvetica® Now
10 Best Free Sans Serif Fonts
- Montserrat
- Nexa (Light & Bold only) Full family here
- Bebas Neue
- Exo 2
- Raleway
- Roboto
- Open Sans
- Titillium Web
- Ubuntu
- Lato
View Best Free Sans Serif Fonts
10 Best Serif Fonts
- Hermann
- Recoleta
- Blacker
- ITC Lubalin Graph
- Linotype Didot
- Begum
- ITC Caslon №224
- Sabon
- Bookmania
- Gabriela Stencil
10 Best Slab Serif Fonts
- Rockwell — $35
- Clarendon — $29
- Bondie — Condensed Slab Serif Font — $15
- Museo Slab — $16
- Knox Serif Typeface — $17
- Vodka Display Font Pack — $35
- American Oak 4 Font Set — $19
- Orgon Slab — $40
- Servus Slab — $29
- Lunchbox Slab Font Family — $25
- Leophard Font Family — $12
- Cabrito — $24
10 Best Display Fonts
- Brandon Grotesque — $40
- Bourton — $10
- Spock — $19
- Sofa Serif — 25 Hand Drawn Display Fonts — $24
- Highbinder Display Font — $15
- Gilroy — $25
- Requiem Display Font — $12
- Sugar Boats Display Font — $15
- Dorris — $20
- Prizefighter Art Deco Display Font — $15
10 Best Script Fonts
- Bourton — $5
- Rhapson Script Font — $8
- Black Diamond — $16
- Groenly Script — $18
- The Honest Designers Script — $24
- Quickbrush — $29
- Northwell — $6
- Greenlight Script — $15
- Seventies — $18
- Corner Deli — $45
10 Best Luxury Fonts
- Coldiac — Luxury Serif Font — $19
- Nord, Rinstonia, Sola Vesta, Da Vinci, Miyake ($16.50)
- Konseric | Luxury Serif Font — $17
- Bordemile — Luxury Script — $18
- American Favorite — Luxury Font Duo — $19
- Aston Script Pro — $12
- Desirable Calligraphy — $23
- Yuanita — $12
- The Secret: Luxury Calligraphy Script — $16
- Belgiana Script — $5
- Stay Classy Font Duo — $17
10 Best Vintage Fonts
- Collectors Vintage Font Bundle (8 font families) — $97
- Bilcase Vintage Display Font Family — $39
- Hollywood Vintage Font — $12
- Knucklehead Font Family — $40
- Vintage Queens — $16
- Braton Composer — $10
- The Aviator Font Collection — $15
- Victorian Fonts Collection — $14
- Bignord Vintage — $16
- Melvis — Vintage Font Family — $19
10 Best Handwritten Fonts
- Amithen Brush Font
- Bird House Script
- Clarkson Script
- The Historia
- Watch
- Carosello
- Sinisuka
- Buffalo
- Venture — Handmade Font Script
- Crushine Wet Brush
10 Best Signature Fonts
- Elliana Samantha
- Hertine
- Holimoun
- Signerica
- Amillia Signature
- Sighnora
- Portraits
- Mayestica
- Brigham
- Autography
10 Best Variable Fonts
15 Best Font Combinations
- Playfair Display with Source Sans Pro
- Merriweather with Oswald
- Montserrat with Merriweather
- Raleway with Lato
- Elsie with Roboto
- Dancing Script with Josefin Sans
- Abril Fatface with Roboto
- Corben with Nobile
- Spirax with Open Sans
- Wendy One with Lato
- Baloo with Montserrat
- Cherry Cream Soda with Raleway
- Amaranth with Open Sans
- Palanquin with Roboto
- Sansita with Open Sans
Top 100 Best Fonts of All Time
To say the least, ranking fonts is an obviously hard task… how does one measure aesthetic quality, the benefit of an item, its value to humanity and so fourth?
Well, in this particular German publication (now offline), the judges ranked the fonts by their objective and various other weighted measurements:
- FontShop Sales Figures: 40%
- Historical Value/Meaning: 30%
- Aesthetic Qualities: 30%
It is also worth noting that this evaluation consisted exclusively of licensed or commercial fonts only. Free fonts or operating system fonts were not considered, nor were fonts integral to standard software (i.e. Arial, Verdana, etc.).
Font variations, which over the centuries have been individually interpreted by various Foundries, were uniquely evaluated as a class and the best variant was entered into the main judging process.
Below is a preview of the top 33 fonts and beneath this image you can find the full list of the 100 best fonts. You can also view a pretty table version of these fonts here.
Below you will find the full list of the best 100 fonts along with the designer & the year in which they were designed.
1. Helvetica [1957 — Max Miedinger]
2. Garamond [1530 — Claude Garamond]
3. Frutiger [1977 — Adrian Frutiger]
4. Bodoni [1790 — Giambattista Bodoni]
5. Futura [1927 — Paul Renner]
6. Times [1931 — Stanley Morison]
7. Akzidenz Grotesk [1966 — G nter Gerhard Lange]
8. Officina [1990 — Erik Spiekermann]
9. Gill Sans [1930 — Eric Gill]
10. Univers [1954 — Adrian Frutiger]
11. Optima [1954 — Hermann Zapf]
12. Franklin Gothic [1903 — Morris Fuller Benton]
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