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Ralf Herrmann: The 10 best fonts from the Google Webfonts Directory

Ralph Herrmann's top ten fonts at the Google Font Directory at the end of 2011:

  • Abril Fatface: a fat didone display typeface by Type Together.
  • Hammersmith One: Nicole Fally's low-contrast typeface inspired by the Johnston UK lettering tradition.
  • Droid Sans, Droid Sans Mono&Droid Serif by Steve Matteson / Ascender. I disagree.
  • Lato: a sans family by Lukasz Dziedzic.
  • Vollkorn: a workhorse family by Friedrich Althausen.
  • Ubuntu: an 8-style sans family by Dalton Maag.
  • Playfair Display: a Baskerville-era style by Claus Eggers Sorensen.
  • UnifrakturMaguntia (2010): a blackletter typeface by J. Mach Wust that is based on Berthold's Mainzer Fraktur which is in turn based on a 1901 typeface by Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt.

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file name: Lukasz Dziedzic Lato 2010h


file name: Friedrich Althausen Vollkorn 2010


file name: Gerhard Helzel Mainzer Fraktur after C Fahrenwald Berthold 1901


file name: Nicole Fally Hammersmith One 2011b


file name: J Mach Wust Unifraktur Magentia 2010


file name: Type Together Abril Fatface 2011


file name: Type Together Abril Fatface 2011b


file name: Dalton Maag Ubuntu 2010 Poster by Baris Ocal 2019


file name: Dalton Maag Ubuntu 2010 Poster by Baris Ocal 2019


file name: Dalton Maag Ubuntu Condensed 2010


file name: Dalton Maag Ubuntu 2010 Poster by Thy Ha 2016


file name: Dalton Maag Ubuntu Mono 2010


file name: Steve Matteson Droid Serif 2009


file name: Steve Matteson Droid Serif Bold 2009


file name: Claus Eggers Sorensen Playfair Display 2011


file name: Claus Eggers Sorensen Playfair Display S C 2015


file name: Friedrich Althausen Vollkorn30 2014


file name: Friedrich Althausen Vollkorn30 2014a


file name: Friedrich Althausen Vollkorn30 2014b


file name: Friedrich Althausen Vollkorn30 2014d


file name: Friedrich Althausen Vollkorn Bold 2014a


file name: Friedrich Althausen Vollkorn Bold 2014b


file name: Friedrich Althausen Vollkorn Bold 2014c





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