TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Tue Oct 28 09:19:27 EDT 2025

FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE

LUC DEVROYE

ABOUT

Smashing Magazine: 80 Beautiful typefaces for professional design [Vitaly Friedman]

Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers, gives us his list of best commercial fonts in 2009:

• Among the well-known types, they mention Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, Univers, Frutiger, Avenir, Myriad Pro, Neuzeit, Syntax, Proxima Nova, Proxima Sans, Glasgow, Charlotte Sans, Precious Sans, Gill Sans, Lisboa, Franklin Gothic, Futura, EF TV Nord 1, FF Scala, Rockwell, Eurostile, Warnock, FF DIN, FF Meta, Officina, FF Dax, DF Dynasty, Akzidenz-Grotesk, AG Book, Precious Serif.
• Lesser known typefaces: Locator, Seravek, FF Kievit, Ronnia, Stella, Le Monde Courrier, Parisine PTF, Freight, Guardian, Anomoly, PMN Caecilia, Leitura, The Mix, Stalemate, Neo Sans, Felbridge, Trade Gothic, Karmina, Source: FF Milo, Auto, Soho, Kepler, Depot, Relato Sans, Priva Pro, Relato Serif, Alber, Palatino Sans Informal, Fedra Sans, Olga, Depot, Whitman, Productus, Tempelhof, Amira, Krart, Tang, Dederon Sans, Samuels Family, Untitled, Greta Text, FF Sanuk, Houschka, Scene, Amplitude, Insider, Preface, Flex, Halvorsen, Xtra Sans.
• And typefaces for the future: Obliqua, Muestra Urbana, Wingardium (Prima Sans, really), Tauram Regular, Mello Sans.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Smashing Magazine: 80 Beautiful typefaces for professional design
MyFonts search
Monotype search
Fontspring search
Google search

INTERNAL LINKS
Choice of fonts ⦿ DIN ⦿ Eric Gill and his typefaces ⦿