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Garamond
Garamond is a group of many old-style serif typefaces, originally those designed by Parisian craftsman Claude Garamond. Garamond worked as an engraver of punches, the masters used to stamp matrices, the moulds used to cast metal type. He worked in the tradition of what is now called old-style serif letter design, that produced letters with a relatively organic structure resembling handwriting with a pen but with a slightly more structured and upright design. -
Caslon
Caslon is a group of serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I (1692–1766) in London.He worked in the tradition of what is now called old-style serif letter design, that produced letters with a relatively organic structure resembling handwriting with a pen. Caslon worked as an engraver of punches, the masters used to stamp the moulds or matrices used to cast metal type. -
Bodoni
Bodoni is the name given to the serif typefaces first designed by Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813) in the late eighteenth century. Bodoni followed the ideas of John Baskerville, as found in the printing type Baskerville. Bodoni's designs changed and varied, ending with a typeface of a slightly condensed underlying structure with flat, unbracketed serifs, extreme contrast between thick and thin strokes, and an overall geometric construction. -
Fette Fraktur
Fette Fraktur is a blackletter typeface of the sub-classification Fraktur designed by the German punchcutter Johann Christian Bauer (1802–1867) in 1850. Fette Fraktur (German for bold Fraktur) is based on the Fraktur type of blackletter faces. This heavy nineteenth century version was developed more for advertising than text. -
Franklin Gothic
Franklin Gothic and its related faces are realist sans-serif typefaces originated by Morris Fuller Benton (1872–1948) in 1902. Franklin Gothic has been used in many advertisements and headlines in newspapers. The typeface continues to maintain a high profile, appearing in a variety of media from books to billboards. -
Cooper Black
Cooper Black is a heavily weighted, display serif typeface designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper in 1921. The typeface is drawn as an extra bold weight of Cooper Old Style. Though not based on a single historic model, Cooper Black exhibits influences of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and the Machine Age. -
Futura
Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed in 1927 by Paul Renner. It is based on geometric shapes that became representative of visual elements of the Bauhaus design style of 1919–33. Futura has an appearance of efficiency and forwardness. Renner believed that a modern typeface should express modern models, rather than be a revival of a previous design. It is based on strokes of near-even weight, which are low in contrast. The lowercase has tall ascenders, which rise above the cap line. -
Gill Sans
Gill Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill and released by the British branch of Monotype from 1928 onwards. Gill Sans takes inspiration from the calligrapher and lettering artist Edward Johnston. Gill Sans was released in 1928 initially as a set of titling capitals then followed by a lower-case. Gill's aim was to blend the influences of Johnston, classic serif typefaces and Roman inscriptions to create a design that looked both cleanly modern and classical at the same time. -
Rockwell
Rockwell is a slab serif typeface designed by the Monotype Corporation and released in 1934. Because of its monoweighted stroke, Rockwell is used primarily for display or small-size use rather than lengthy bodies of body text. Rockwell is based on an earlier, more condensed slab serif design called Litho Antique. Rockwell is a "geometric" slab-serif, with a monoline construction with all strokes appearing to be roughly the same width. -
Helvetica
Helvetica is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with input from Eduard Hoffmann. It is a neo-grotesque or realist design. Notable features of Helvetica as originally designed include the termination of all strokes on horizontal or vertical lines and unusually tight letter spacing, which give it a dense, compact appearance. -
Bell Centennial
Bell Centennial is a sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter in the period 1975–78. Carter's design increased the x-height of lowercase characters, slightly condensed the character width, and carved out many more open counters and bowls to increase legibility. -
Avenir
Avenir is a proportional geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988. he font takes inspiration from the early geometric sans-serif typefaces Erbar (1922), designed by Jakob Erbar, and Futura (1927), designed by Paul Renner. Frutiger intended Avenir to be a more organic, humanist interpretation of these highly geometric types. -
Trajan
Trajan is an old style serif typeface designed in 1989 by Carol Twombly for Adobe. The design is based on the letterforms of capitalis monumentalis or Roman square capitals, as used for the inscription at the base of Trajan's Column from which the typeface takes its name. Trajan is an all-capitals typeface. -
FF Meta
FF Meta is a humanist sans-serif typeface family designed by Erik Spiekermann and released in 1991. According to Spiekermann, FF Meta was intended to be a "complete antithesis of Helvetica". A general feature of FF Meta is relatively open apertures, in contrast to the more folded-up appearance of Helvetica. This is believed to promote legibility and make the letterforms more clearly different from one another. -
Georgia
Georgia is a serif typeface designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter. It was intended as a serif font that would appear elegant but legible printed small or on low-resolution screens. -
Comic Sans
Comic Sans MS, commonly referred to as Comic Sans, is a sans-serif casual script typeface designed by Vincent Connare and released in 1994. It is a casual, non-connecting script inspired by comic book lettering, intended for use in informal documents and children's materials. -
Zapfino
Zapfino is a calligraphic typeface designed for Linotype by typeface designer Hermann Zapf in 1998. It is based on an alphabet Zapf originally penned in 1944. As a font, it makes extensive use of ligatures and character variations (for example, the lower case letter d has nine variations).
