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Font collections

Short lists of open-license fonts picked for one job. Each list explains what to look for and says why every font is on it.

By use

  • Clean sans-serif fonts for app interfaces

    Open-license sans-serif families that stay clear in buttons, menus, tables and settings screens, with the weights an interface needs.

    18 fonts

  • Bold fonts for posters and big headlines

    Heavy and condensed open-license display fonts that hold a sheet from across the room: gothics, slabs, fat faces and stencils.

    17 fonts

  • Bold vintage fonts for poster design

    Wood-type slabs, Tuscans, fat faces and worn display fonts for posters that should look printed a century ago.

    14 fonts

  • Fonts for logos and wordmarks

    Geometric, rounded, wide and classical open-license typefaces with enough character to carry a name on their own.

    17 fonts

  • Script fonts for wedding invitations

    Formal and semi-formal connected scripts for names, invitations and place cards, from copperplate hairlines to relaxed pen writing.

    14 fonts

  • Elegant serif fonts for wedding invitations

    Light, high-contrast and classical serif typefaces for invitation text, names in capitals and formal stationery.

    13 fonts

  • Fonts for résumés and CVs

    Readable open-license serif and sans-serif families for a one- or two-page CV, with the weights and italics a document needs.

    15 fonts

  • Fonts for presentations and slides

    Sans-serif and slab-serif families that stay readable on a projector or a shared screen, with strong bolds for slide titles.

    14 fonts

  • Serif fonts for long reading on screens

    Text serifs drawn for screens or for long reading: large x-heights, moderate contrast and real italics for articles, blogs and documentation.

    15 fonts

  • Monospace fonts for coding

    Fixed-width open-license families for editors and terminals, with clear zeros, several weights and, in most cases, italics.

    16 fonts

  • Fonts for restaurant and café menus

    Serifs, scripts and narrow display faces for menus: a heading face with character and a text face that stays readable in low light.

    12 fonts

  • Fonts for packaging and product labels

    Brush scripts, soft serifs and sturdy display faces for jars, boxes, bottles and tags, where a name has to work on a small curved surface.

    15 fonts

  • Heavy fonts for thumbnails and social graphics

    Very heavy, compact display fonts that stay readable on a video thumbnail, a story or a feed image seen at a few centimeters wide.

    16 fonts

  • Fonts for subtitles and video captions

    Plain, sturdy sans-serif families for subtitles and captions, chosen for clear letters at small sizes and, in most cases, wide language coverage.

    14 fonts

  • Fonts for children and early readers

    Schoolbook sans-serifs, print handwriting and rounded display faces for worksheets, picture books and classroom materials.

    16 fonts

  • Squared sans-serif fonts for tech and game interfaces

    Square-shouldered sans-serif families with two or more weights for HUDs, dashboards, esports graphics and hardware-flavored branding.

    14 fonts

  • Fonts for sports teams and jerseys

    A college block slab, squared condensed sans-serifs, speed-lined italics and an athletic script for team names, numbers and match graphics.

    11 fonts

  • Fonts for signage and wayfinding

    Sans-serif families developed for signs, road lettering and information displays, readable at a distance and at an angle.

    11 fonts

  • Fonts for newspapers and magazines

    Headline serifs, compact text faces and news gothics for editorial layouts in print and on news sites.

    15 fonts

  • Serif fonts for academic and scholarly writing

    Text families with very large character sets for theses, journals and critical editions: Greek, Cyrillic, phonetic and historical characters.

    13 fonts

  • Fonts designed for legibility and accessible reading

    Families whose makers set out to make letters easier to tell apart: for low vision, beginning and struggling readers, and safety-critical displays.

    10 fonts

  • Narrow sans-serif fonts for tables and tight layouts

    Condensed and semi-condensed text families that fit more characters per line in tables, sidebars, forms and mobile screens.

    15 fonts

  • Old-style and revival serif fonts for books

    Digital revivals of Renaissance, baroque and later book types, and new designs in the old-style tradition, most with italics, for novels, essays and fine printing.

    16 fonts

By mood and style

  • Geometric sans-serif fonts

    Sans-serif families built on circles, straight lines and even strokes, from 1920s-inspired designs to current brand typefaces.

    19 fonts

  • Humanist sans-serif fonts for readable text

    Sans-serif families with open, pen-influenced letterforms that stay comfortable in paragraphs, documents and interface text.

    17 fonts

  • Grotesque sans-serif fonts

    Grotesque and neo-grotesque sans-serif families: plain, sturdy, slightly irregular workhorses for branding, editorial design and interfaces.

    14 fonts

  • Slab serif fonts

    Slab-serif families with block-like serifs, from geometric and typewriter-flavored designs to sturdy text faces with italics.

    17 fonts

  • High-contrast Didone fonts for fashion and editorial headlines

    Modern-face serifs with hairline serifs and vertical stress: the look of fashion mastheads, beauty packaging and magazine covers.

    14 fonts

  • Roman capital and inscriptional fonts for titles

    Capitals drawn after Roman inscriptions and flared lettering, for film-style titles, monograms, certificates and luxury branding.

    9 fonts

  • Rounded friendly fonts for social media and apps

    Sans-serif and display families with rounded stroke ends: soft, approachable type for social posts, onboarding screens and children's brands.

    14 fonts

  • Condensed fonts for headlines

    Narrow sans-serif and serif display fonts that set tall, compact headlines in limited width, from hairline to heavy.

    21 fonts

  • Wide and extended fonts for headings and logos

    Extended sans-serif and display families whose broad letters give short words presence: for mastheads, wordmarks and section titles.

    17 fonts

  • Thin and hairline fonts for light, airy headings

    Families with a Thin weight and single-style hairline display faces, for large headings, covers and minimal layouts.

    17 fonts

  • Handwriting fonts for notes, quotes and personal touches

    Fonts made from real pen, pencil and marker writing: unjoined print hands and everyday cursive for notes, annotations and captions.

    16 fonts

  • Signature-style fonts

    Fine-line scripts and fast cursive hands that look like a signed name, for sign-offs, photography marks and personal branding.

    11 fonts

  • Brush and marker fonts

    Dry-brush scripts, paint-streaked capitals and felt-marker lettering with visible texture, for energetic headings and handmade branding.

    15 fonts

  • Calligraphy fonts written with a broad pen

    Broad-nib and flat-pen calligraphic faces: chancery, foundational and uncial hands for certificates, quotations and formal headings.

    10 fonts

  • Retro script fonts with a mid-century feel

    Connected brush and monoline scripts in the manner of 1930s to 1960s advertising, film titles, painted signs and record sleeves.

    18 fonts

  • Mid-century display fonts from the 1950s to the 1970s

    Bouncing, hand-lettered display faces after post-war advertising, cartoons, motel signs and record covers.

    16 fonts

  • Art Deco fonts and 1920s geometric display faces

    Hairline geometrics, multi-line capitals and high-contrast display faces in the manner of the 1920s and 1930s, with two Bauhaus relatives.

    8 fonts

  • Blackletter and gothic fonts

    Textura, Fraktur and modern blackletter display faces, plus three medieval-flavored relatives, for mastheads, labels and heavy music artwork.

    8 fonts

  • Pixel and arcade fonts

    Bitmap-style and dot-matrix display fonts after 1980s game screens, terminals and LED panels, for retro games and tech graphics.

    9 fonts

  • Typewriter fonts

    Monospaced and slab-serif faces modeled on typewriters, from clean screenplay type to worn, inky letters for documents and props.

    8 fonts

  • Futuristic display fonts for sci-fi titles and logos

    Wide, squared and constructed display faces for science-fiction titles, technology logos, album art and game branding.

    13 fonts

  • Comic book and cartoon lettering fonts

    Hand-lettered comic dialogue faces, sound-effect capitals and bouncy cartoon titles for comics, kids' media and humorous graphics.

    13 fonts

  • Fonts inspired by film posters and title cards

    Display faces whose designers name a film poster, a cinema tradition or a title screen as their source, from 1930s scripts to action-movie slabs.

    13 fonts

  • Fonts drawn from street signs and painted lettering

    Typefaces based on hand-painted shop signs, truck art, railway boards and protest placards from cities around the world.

    17 fonts

  • Minimalist sans-serif fonts

    Quiet, low-contrast sans-serif families with plain shapes and open spacing, for portfolios, product pages and calm editorial layouts.

    14 fonts

By feature

  • Variable fonts with a width axis

    Variable families in which letter width is adjustable as well as weight, from slight narrowing for copy-fitting to a full condensed-to-wide range.

    17 fonts

  • Variable fonts with an optical size axis

    Variable families that redraw themselves for the size they are set at: sturdier and looser when small, finer and tighter when large.

    16 fonts

  • Variable fonts with unusual axes

    Experimental and expressive variable fonts with custom axes: softness, bounce, casualness, morphing, rotation, grade and more.

    17 fonts

  • Fonts with small capitals

    Families issued as small-caps cuts, where the lowercase keys give capitals at x-height: for acronyms, headings, credits and refined body text.

    14 fonts

  • Font families with nine weights and italics

    Complete families running from Thin to Black with an italic for every weight: eighteen styles for a full typographic system.

    17 fonts

By language

  • Fonts that support Cyrillic

    Open-license families with Cyrillic glyphs beside Latin: text sans and serifs, a monospace, scripts and display faces.

    18 fonts

  • Fonts that support Greek

    Open-license families with Greek glyphs beside Latin, for Greek-language sites and for mathematics, science and classics.

    18 fonts

  • Fonts that support Vietnamese

    Open-license families that include the stacked diacritics Vietnamese needs, among them several designed in or for Vietnam.

    15 fonts

  • Fonts that support Turkish

    Open-license families that contain every letter of the Turkish alphabet, including dotted and dotless i, across text, display and script styles.

    16 fonts

  • Fonts that support Hebrew

    Open-license families with Hebrew and Latin drawn to work together: text sans and serifs, rounded and display designs.

    14 fonts

  • Fonts that support Arabic

    Open-license families for the Arabic script with a matching Latin: Naskh text faces, Kufi-based sans-serifs and display designs.

    17 fonts

  • Fonts that support Devanagari

    Open-license families for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and other Devanagari-script languages, each with Latin letters in the same files.

    18 fonts

  • Fonts that support Thai

    Open-license Thai and Latin families, both traditional looped designs and modern loopless ones, for text, interfaces and headlines.

    18 fonts

  • Fonts that cover several writing systems

    Families that set Latin together with three or more other scripts in one design, for multilingual sites, apps and documents.

    14 fonts

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