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Font Shop: Top 100 Fonts of All Time
Below are Font Shop’s Top 100 Fonts of Al Time, as rated by an international jury. If I have time and/or motivation, I’d link each of these. Sadly, at this point in my life, I do not.
Rank | Font Name | [Date Designed – Designed By]
1. Helvetica [1957 – Max Miedinger]
2. Garamond [1530 – Claude Garamond]
3. Frutiger [1977 – Adrian Frutiger]
4. Bodoni [1970 – Giambattista Bodoni]
5. Futura [1927 – Paul Renner]
6. Times [1931 – Stanley Morison]
7. Akzidenz Grotesk [1966 – Günter Gerhard Lange]
8. Officina [1990 – Erik Spiekermann]
9. Gill Sans [1930 – Eric Gill]
10. Univers [1954 – Adrian Frutiger]
11. Optima [1954 – Hermann Zapf]
12. Franklin Gothic [1903 – Morris Fuller Benton]
13. Bembo [1496 – Francesco Griffo]
14. Interstate [1993 – Tobias Frere-Jones]
15. Thesis [1994 – Lucas de Groot]
16. Rockwell [1934 – Frank H. Pierpont]
17. Walbaum [1800 – Justus Walbaum]
18. Meta [1991 – Erik Spiekermann]
19. Trinité [1982 – Bram De Does]
20. Din [1926 – Ludwig Goller]
21. Matrix [1986 – Zuzana Licko]
22. OCR [1965 – American Type Founders]
23. Avant Garde [1968 – Herb Lubalin]
24. Lucida [1985 – Chris Holmes / Charles Bigelow]
25. Sabon [1964 – Jan Tschichold]
26. Zapfino [1998 – Hermann Zapf]
27. Letter Gothic [1956 – Roger Roberson]
28. Stone [1987 – Summer Stone]
29. Arnhem [1998 – Fred Smeijers]
30. Minion [1990 – Robert Slimbach]
31. Myriad [1992 – Twombly & Slimbach]
32. Rotis [1988 – Olt Aicher]
33. Eurostile [1962 – Aldo Novarese]
34. Scala [1991 – Martin Majoor]
35. Syntax [1968 – Hans Eduard Meier]
36. Joanna [1930 – Eric Gill]
37. Fleishmann [1997 – Erhard Kaiser]
38. Palatino [1950 – Hermann Zapf]
39. Baskerville [1754 – John Baskerville]
40. Fedra [2002 – Peter Bil’ak]
41. Gotham [2000 – Tobias Frere-Jones]
42. Lexicon [1992 – Bram De Does]
43. Hands [1991 – Letterror]
44. Metro [1929 – W. A. Dwiggins]
45. Didot [1799 – Firmin Didot]
46. Formata [1984 – Bernd Möllenstädt]
47. Caslon [1725 – William Caslon]
48. Cooper Black [1920 – Oswald B. Cooper]
49. Peignot [1937 – A. M. Cassandre]
50. Bell Gothic [1938 – Chauncey H. Griffith]
51. Antique Olive [1962 – Roger Excoffon]
52. Wilhelm Klngspor Gotisch [1926 – Rudolf Koch]
53. Info [1996 – Erik Spiekermann]
54. Dax [1995 – Hans Reichel]
55. Proforma [1988 – Petr van Blokland]
56. Today Sans [1988 – Volker Küster]
57. Prokyon [2002 – Erhard Kaiser]
58. Trade Gothic [1948 – Jackson Burke]
59. Swift [1987 – Gerald Unger]
60. Copperplate Gothic [1901 – Frederic W. Goudy]
61. Blur [1992 – Neville Brody]
62. Base [1995 – Zuzana Licko]
63. Bell Centennial [1978 – Matthew Carter]
64. News Gothic [1908 – Morris Fuller Benton]
65. Avenir [1988 – Adrian Frutiger]
66. Bernhard Modern [1937 – Lucian Bernhard]
67. Amplitude [2003 – Christian Schwartz]
68. Trixie [1991 – Erik van Blokland]
69. Quadraat [1992 – Fred Smeijers]
70. Neutraface [2002 – Christian Schwartz]
71. Nobel [1929 – Sjoerd de Roos]
72. Industria [1990 – Neville Brody]
73. Bickham Script [1997 – Richard Lipton]
74. Bank Gothic [1930 – Morris Fuller Benton]
75. Corporate ASE [1989 – Kurt Weidemann]
76. Fago [2000 – Ole Schafer]
77. Trajan [1989 – Carol Twombly]
78. Kabel [1927 – Rudolf Koch]
79. House Gothic 23 [1995 – Tal Leming]
80. Kosmik [1993 – Letterror]
81. Caecilia [1990 – Peter Matthias Noordzij]
82. Mrs Eaves [1996 – Zuzana Licko]
83. Corpid [1997 – Lucas de Groot]
84. Miller [1997 – Matthew Carter]
85. Souvenir [1914 – Morris Fuller Benton]
86. Instant Types [1992 – Just van Rossum]
87. Clarendon [1845 – Benjamin Fox]
88. Triplex [1989 – Zuzana Licko]
89. Benguiat [1989 – Ed Benguiat]
90. Zapf Renaissance [1984 – Hermann Zapf]
91. Filosofia [1996 – Zuzana Licko]
92. Chalet [1996 – House Industries]
93. Quay Sans [1990 – David Quay]
94. Cézanne [1995 – Michael Want, James Grieshaber]
95. Reporter [1938 – Carlos Winkow]
96. Legacy [1992 – Ronald Arnholm]
97. Agenda [1993 – Greg Thompson]
98. Bello [2004 – Underware]
99. Dalliance [2000 – Frank Heine]
100. Mistral [1953 – Roger Excoffon]