List of typefaces explained

This is a list of typefaces, which are separated into groups by distinct artistic differences. The list includes typefaces that have articles or that are referenced. Superfamilies that fall under more than one category have an asterisk (*) after their name.

Serif

See main article: Serif.

See also: List of serif typefaces.

• Adobe Jenson
• Albertus
• Aldus
• Alexandria
• Algerian
• Amelia (Designed in 1963 by Stan Davis)
• American Typewriter
• Antiqua
• Arno
  • Aster
• Aurora
  • News 706
• Baskerville
• Bell (Didone classification serif type designed by Richard Austin, 1788)
• Belwe Roman
• Bembo
• Bernhard Modern
• Bodoni
  • Bauer Bodoni
• Bitstream Charter
• Bookman
• Bulmer
• Caledonia
• Calisto MT
• Cambria
• Capitals
• Cartier
• Caslon
  • Wyld
• Caslon Antique / Fifteenth Century
• Centaur
• Century type family
• Charis SIL
• Cheltenham
• Clearface
• Cloister Black
• Cochin
• Computer Modern
• Concrete Roman
• Constantia
• Copperplate Gothic
• DejaVu Serif
• Didot
• Droid Serif
• Emerson
• Fairfield
• Fat face
• FF Scala
• Fixedsys
• Footlight
• Friz Quadrata
• Garamond
• Gentium
• Georgia
• GNU FreeFont
• Google logo
• Goudy Old Style / Goudy
• Granjon
• Hermann Zapf
• Hightower Text
• Hoefler Text
• IBM Plex Serif
  • Imprint
• ITC Benguiat
• Janson
• Jokerman
• Joanna
• Korinna
• Legibility Group
• Lexicon
• Liberation Serif
• Linux Libertine
• Literaturnaya
• Lucida Bright
  • Ludwig & Mayer
• Memphis
• Miller
• Minion
  • Modern
• Mrs Eaves
  • MS Serif
• Nebiolo Printech
  • Torino
• New York (one of the original Macintosh system fonts)
• Nimbus Roman No. 9 L
• NPS Rawlinson Roadway
• OCR-A
• Palatino
  • Book Antiqua
  • Sistina
• Perpetua
• Plantin
• PT Fonts
• Renault
• Requiem
• Rotis
  • Rudolph Ruzicka
• Sabon
• Source Serif
• Souvenir
• Stephenson Blake
• STIX Fonts project (see also XITS font project)
• Sylfaen
• Theano Didot
• Times New Roman
  • Times (Linotype's version of Times New Roman)
• Trajan
• Trinité
• Trump Mediaeval
• University of California Old Style
  • Berkeley Old Style
  • Californian FB
• Utopia
• Vera Serif
• Windsor
• XITS font project

Slab serif

See main article: Slab serif.

• Alexandria
• American Typewriter
• Archer
• Athens
• Candida
• Cholla Slab
• City
• Clarendon
• Concrete Roman
• Courier
• Egyptienne
• Guardian Egyptian
• Legibility Group
  • Ionic No. 5
• Lexia
• Memphis
• Nilland
• Roboto Slab
• Rockwell
• Schadow
• Serifa
• Skeleton Antique
• Tower

Sans-serif

See main article: Sans-serif.

See also: List of sans serif typefaces.

• Agency FB
• Akzidenz-Grotesk
• Andalé Sans
• Antique Olive
• Aptos
• Archivo
• Arial
• Arial Unicode MS
• Avant Garde Gothic
• Avenir
• Bank Gothic
• Bauhaus
• Bell Centennial
• Bell Gothic
• Benguiat Gothic
• Berlin Sans
• Brandon Grotesque
• Calibri
• Casey
• Century Gothic
  • Charcoal (Mac OS 9 system font)
• Chicago (pre-Mac OS 8 system font, still included with macOS)
• Clearview
• Comic Sans
• Compacta
• Corbel
• DejaVu Sans
• DIN
• Dotum
• Droid Sans
• Dyslexie (designed to mitigate some of the issues that dyslexics experience when reading)
• Ecofont
• Eras
• Esseltub
• Espy Sans
• Eurocrat
• Eurostile
  • Square 721
• FF Dax
• FF Meta
  • FF Scala Sans
• Fira Sans
• Fira Mono
• Fira Code
• Fira Go
• Folio
• Franklin Gothic
  • FreeSans
• Frutiger
• Futura
• Geneva (one of the original Macintosh system fonts)
• Gill Sans
  • • Gill Sans Schoolbook
• Gotham
  • Grand Slang
• Haettenschweiler
• Handel Gothic
• Hei
• Helvetica
  • Helvetica Neue
  • Swiss 721
• Highway Gothic
• IBM Plex Sans
  • Impact
• Industria
• Interstate
• Johnston/New Johnston
• Kabel
• Klavika
• Lato
• Liberation Sans
• Linux Biolinum
• Lucida Sans
  • • Lucida Grande
    • Lucida Sans Unicode
  • Lydian
• Meiryo
• Meta
• Microgramma
• Modern (vector font included with Windows 2.1)
• Motorway (used on British motorway signs for route numbers)
• MS Sans Serif (included with all Microsoft Windows versions, superseded by Arial)
• Myriad
  • Neutraface
• Neuzeit S
• News Gothic
• Nimbus Sans L
• Nordstern
• Open Sans
• Optima
• Overpass
• Parisine (used by the RATP Group on their jurisdictions of Paris's transit system)
• Product Sans
• Proxima Nova
• PT Sans (made for all minority languages of Russian Federation)
• Rail Alphabet
• Roboto
• Rotis Sans
• San Francisco (default typeface in iOS 9 and above and OS X El Capitan and above)
• Segoe UI
• Skia (the first QuickDraw GX font, still found in macOS today)
• Source Sans Pro
• SST
  • Sweden Sans
• Syntax
• System (Windows 3.x default)
• Tahoma
• Template Gothic
• Thesis Sans
  • Tiresias
• Trade Gothic
• Transport (used on British road signs)
• Trebuchet MS
• Twentieth Century (Tw Cen MT)
• Ubuntu
• Unica
• Univers
  • Zurich
• Vera Sans
• Verdana

Semi-serif

• Nyala
• Rotis Semi Serif
• EasyReading

Monospace

See main article: Monospaced font.

See also: List of monospaced typefaces.

• Andalé Mono
• Arial Monospaced
• Bitstream Vera (Vera Sans Mono)
• Consolas
• Courier
  • Courier New
• Cutive Mono
• DejaVu Sans Mono
• Droid Sans Mono
• Everson Mono (also known as Everson Mono Unicode)
• Fira Mono
• Fira Code
• Fixed
• Fixedsys
• HyperFont
• IBM Plex Mono
  • Inconsolata
• Iosevka
• Letter Gothic
• Liberation Mono
• Lucida Console
  • Lucida Sans Typewriter
  • Lucida Typewriter
  • Menlo
• Magnetic ink character recognition (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition, several fonts)
• Monaco (one of the original Macintosh system fonts)
• Monospace
• MS Gothic
• MS Mincho
• Nimbus Mono L
• OCR-A (Optical Character Recognition)
  • OCR-B
• PragmataPro
• Prestige Elite (also known as Prestige, is similar to Courier)
• ProFont (a freeware font designed for easy readability at small sizes)
• Proggy programming fonts
• Roboto Mono
• SimHei
• SST Typewriter
• SimSun
• Source Code Pro
• Terminal
• Ubuntu Mono
• Vera Sans Mono (Bitstream Vera)

Script

See main article: Script typeface.

See also: List of script typefaces.

Brush scripts

• Balloon
• Brush Script
• Choc
• Dom Casual
• Mistral
• Papyrus
• Segoe Script
• Utopia

Calligraphic

See main article: Calligraphy.

• American Scribe
• AMS Euler
• Apple Chancery
• Forte
• French Script
• ITC Zapf Chancery
• Kuenstler Script
• Monotype Corsiva
• Old English Text MT
• Zapfino

Handwriting

See main article: Handwriting.

• Andy
• Ashley Script
• Cézanne
• Chalkboard
• Comic Sans MS
• Comic Neue
• Dom Casual
• Freestyle Script
• Kristen
• Lucida Handwriting

Other script

• Coronet
• Curlz
• Gravura
• Script (vector font included with Windows 2.1)
• Wiesbaden Swing

Blackletter

See main article: Blackletter.

• Bastard
• Breitkopf Fraktur
• Fette Fraktur (Fraktur Bold)
• Fletcher
• Fraktur
• Lucida Blackletter
• Old English Text
• Schwabacher
• Tannenberg
• Textualis (Textura)
• Theuerdank Fraktur
• Wallau

Non-Latin

See also: List of CJK fonts.

• Aharoni (including Hebrew script)
• Aldhabi^[1] calligraphic Arabic font by Microsoft.
• Aisha (Arabic, Latin)
• Aparajita (Angika, Bhojpuri, Bodo and other Indian languages)
• Arek (Armenian, Latin)
• Arial (Used in English, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages)^[2]
• Avory (Cyrillic, Greek, Latin)
• Awami Nastaliq features a more extensive character set than most Nastaliq typefaces, supporting: Urdu, Balochi, Farsi (Iranian Persian), Khowar, Palula, Saraiki, Shina.^[3] available from SIL website
• Baloo (OFL typeface set for Indian languages)

• Baloo for Devanagari (Hindi and other north Indian languages)

• Baloo Bhai for Gujarati

• Baloo Bhaijaan for Urdu

• Baloo Bhaina for Oriya

• Baloo Chettan for Malayalam

• Baloo Da for Bengali

• Baloo Paaji for Gurumukhi

• Baloo Tamma for Kannada

• Baloo Tammudu for Telugu

• Baloo Thambi for Tamil
• Calibri (Greek)
• Chandas (Devanagari)
• Clone (Cyrillic, Greek, Latin)
• Corsair (Cyrillic, Greek, Latin)
• Eskorte (Arabic, Latin)
• Gadugi (Used by the American/Canadian Blackfoot tribe, and for the language called Carrier, and used by the Native American tribe of the Cherokee and for other languages)
• Grecs du roi (Greek)
• Hanacaraka (traditional Javanese script)
• Japanese Gothic
• Jomolhari (Tibetan script)
• Kiran (Devanagari)
• Kochi
• Koren (Hebrew)
• Kruti Dev (Devanagari)
• Malgun Gothic (Korean sans-serif)
• Meiryo (Japanese sans-serif gothic typeface)
• Microsoft JhengHei (Traditional Chinese)
• Microsoft YaHei (Simplified Chinese)
• Minchō
• Ming
• Mona (Japanese)
• MS Gothic
• Nassim (Arabic, Latin)
• Nastaliq Navees
• Neacademia (Cyrillic, Latin)
• Noto Sans^[4]
• Noto Serif
• Perpetua Greek^[5]
• Porson (Greek)
• Segoe UI Symbol (Latin, Braille, Coptic and Gothic)
• Shruti (Gujarati)
• Skolar (a multi-script font family with Arabic, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Gujarati and Latin scripts)
• Skolar Sans (in Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Latin)
• SimSun
• Sylfaen (a multi-script serif font family, for various non-Latin scripts and is for the languages Armenian and Georgian)
• Sutturah (Cyrillic, Latin)
• Tahoma^[6] has a very extensive character set including:

• Latin (extended including: "Latin 2" for eastern Europe, Turkish, and Vietnamese)

• Arabic (extended character set covering Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, and others)

• and other alphabets: Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Thai.
• Tengwar
• Tibetan Machine Uni
• Urdu Typesetting^[7] is designed for Urdu. The character set covers other languages (such as Arabic and Persian) but the Nastaliq style is unusual for modern documents in languages other than Urdu.
• Wilson Greek

Unicode fonts

See main article: Unicode font.

This list of more comprehensive Unicode fonts, including open-source Unicode typefaces, showing the number of characters/glyphs included for the released version, and also showing font's license type:

• Alphabetum (shareware, includes a few SMP character blocks. Over 5,490 characters in version 9.00)
• Arial Unicode MS (distributed along with Microsoft Office (2002XP, 2003). only supports up to Unicode 2.0. Contains 50,377 glyphs (38,917 characters) in v1.01.)
• Batang and Gungsuh, a serif and monospace/gothic font, respectively; both with 20,609 Latin/Cyrillic/CJK glyphs in version 2.11. Distributed with Microsoft Office.
• Bitstream Cyberbit (free for non-commercial use. 29,934 glyphs in v2.0-beta.)
• Bitstream Vera (free/open source, limited coverage with 300 glyphs, DejaVu fonts extend Bitstream Vera with thousands of glyphs)
• Charis SIL (free/open source, over 4,600 glyphs in v4.114)
• Code2000 (shareware Unicode font; supports the entire BMP. 63,888 glyphs in v1.15. Abandoned.)
  • Code2001 (freeware; supports the SMP. 2,944 glyphs in v0.917. Abandoned.)
  • Code2002
• DejaVu fonts (free/open source, "DejaVu Sans" includes 3,471 glyphs and 2,558 kerning pairs in v2.6)
• Doulos SIL (free/open source, designed for IPA, 3,083 glyphs in v4.014.)
• EB Garamond (free/open source, includes 3,218 glyphs in 2017)
• Everson Mono (also known as, Everson Mono Unicode. Shareware; contains all non-CJK characters. 4,899 glyphs in Macromedia Fontographer v4.1.3 2003-02-13.)
• Fallback font (freeware fallback font for Windows)
• Free UCS Outline Fonts aka FreeFont (free/open source, "FreeSerif" includes 3,914 glyphs in v1.52, MES-1 compliant)
• Gentium (free/open source, "Gentium Plus" includes over 5,500 glyphs in November 2010)
• GNU Unifont (free/open source, bitmapped glyphs are inclusive as defined in unicode-5.1 only)
• Georgia Ref (also distributed under the name "MS Reference Serif," extension of the Georgia typeface)
• Gulim/New Gulim and Dotum, rounded sans-serif and non-rounded sans-serif respectively, (distributed with Microsoft Office 2000. wide range of CJK (Korean) characters. 49,284 glyphs in v3.10.)
• Junicode (free; includes many obsolete scripts, intended for mediævalists. 2,235 glyphs in v0.6.12.)
• Kurinto Font Folio (open source (OFL), pan-Unicode, 21 typefaces, 506 fonts; v2.196 (July 26, 2020) has coverage of most of Unicode v12.1 plus many auxiliary scripts including the UCSUR)
• LastResort (fallback font covering all 17 Unicode planes, included with Mac OS 8.5 and up)
• Lucida Grande (Unicode font included with macOS; includes 1,266 glyphs)*
• Lucida Sans Unicode (included in more recent Microsoft Windows versions; only supports ISO 8859-x characters. 1,776 glyphs in v2.00.)*
• MS Gothic (distributed with Microsoft Office, 14,965 glyphs in v2.30)
• MS Mincho (distributed with Microsoft Office, 14,965 glyphs in v2.30)
• Nimbus Sans Global
• Noto, a family of fonts designed by Google: nearly 64,000 glyphs as of 2018.
• PragmataPro, a modular monospaced font family designed by Fabrizio Schiavi, Regular version includes more than 7000 glyphs
• Squarish Sans CT v0.10 (1,756 glyphs; Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and more)
• STIX (especially mathematics, symbols and Greek, see also XITS)
• Titus Cyberbit Basic (free; updated version of Cyberbit. 9,779 glyphs in v3.0, 2000.)
• Verdana Ref (also distributed under the name "MS Reference Sans Serif," extension of the Verdana typeface)
• XITS (especially mathematics, symbols and Greek)

Dingbat/Symbol fonts

See main article: Dingbat.

• Apple Symbols (Included with macOS)
• Asana-Math
• Blackboard bold
• Bookshelf Symbol 7
• Cambria Math
• Computer Modern
• Lucida Math
  • Marlett
• Symbol (consists of Greek letters and mathematical symbols)
• Webdings
• Wingdings
  • Wingdings 2
  • Wingdings 3
• Zapf Dingbats

Display/Decorative fonts

See also: List of display typefaces.

• Ad Lib
• Allegro
• Andreas
• Arnold Böcklin
• Astur
• Banco
• Bauhaus
• Braggadocio
• Broadway
• Caslon Antique
• Cooper Black
• Curlz
• Ellington
• Exocet
• FIG Script
• Forte
• Gabriola
• Horizon
• Jim Crow
• Lo-Type
• Neuland
• Peignot
• San Francisco
• Stencil
• Umbra
• Westminster
• Willow
• Windsor

Ethnic fonts

• Lithos (Greek)
• Höfðaletur (Icelandic)

Miscellaneous

• Compatil
• Generis
• Grasset
• Luxi
• Sans forgetica (learning aid font)

Typefaces with an asterisk (*) after their name are part of a superfamily that belongs to multiple categories.

See also

• Adobe Originals
• Computer font
• Font family (HTML)
• Font management software
• Gaelic type
• List of Apple typefaces
• List of typefaces included with Microsoft Windows
• List of public signage typefaces
• List of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy
• List of typefaces included with macOS
• Record type
• Vox-ATypI classification

Notes and References

1. Web site: Aldhabi – Typography . docs.microsoft.com . en-us.
2. Web site: Arial font family – Typography . docs.microsoft.com . en-us.
3. Web site: What is Special About Awami Nastaliq? – Awami Nastaliq . software.sil.org.
4. Web site: Google Noto Fonts . www.google.com . 2 March 2020.
5. Book: Harling, Robert. The Letter Forms and Type Designs of Eric Gill . Eva Svensson and David R. Godine. Boston, MA. 1978 . 0-87923-200-5 .
6. Web site: Tahoma font family – Typography . docs.microsoft.com . 2 March 2020 . en-us.
7. Web site: Urdu Typesetting font family – Typography . docs.microsoft.com . en-us.