List of typefaces
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This is a list of typeface
s, which are separated into groups by distinct artistic differences.
Slab serif
Dingbat
Typeface
In typography, a typeface is the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks. Each type is designed and there are thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly....
s, which are separated into groups by distinct artistic differences.
Slab serifSlab serifIn typography, a slab serif typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs. Serif terminals may be either blunt and angular , or rounded . Slab serif typefaces generally have no bracket...
- Apex
- Berthold City
- Cholla SlabCholla SlabCholla Slab is a geometric slab-serif variant of a larger typeface family called Cholla designed by Sibylle Hagmann in the period 1998–1999 for the Art Center College of Design. Cholla is licensed by the Emigre foundry...
- EgyptienneEgyptienneFor the Royal Navy Frigate, see HMS Egyptienne Egyptienne is a serif typeface belonging to the classification slab serif, or Egyptian, where the serifs are unbracketed and similar in weight to the horizontal strokes of the letters...
- Guardian Egyptian
- Museo Slab
- RockwellRockwell (typeface)Rockwell is a serif typeface belonging to the classification slab serif, or Egyptian, where the serifs are unbracketed and similar in weight to the horizontal strokes of the letters. The typeface was designed at the Monotype foundry's in-house design studio in 1934. The project was supervised by...
Semi-serif
- Amsterdam Old Style
- Divona
- NyalaNyala (typeface)Nyala is an OpenType TrueType flavour font based on Sylfaen and designed to support the Latin alphabet and the Ge'ez script used in Ethiopic languages. It was created by John Hudson and Geraldine Wade and is part of the Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7...
- PortobelloPortobello (font)Portobello is a modern typeface and computer font. It was created by Steve Jackaman, a font designer from the Borough of Greenwich in London, England. The Portobello font is "loosely based on Pontecorvo, a font design by Aldo Novarese."...
- Rotis Semi SerifRotisRotis is a typeface developed in 1988 by Otl Aicher, a German graphic designer and typographer. In Rotis, Aicher explores an attempt at maximum legibility through a highly unified yet varied typeface family that ranges from full serif, glyphic, and sans-serif...
- Tema Cantante
Unicode fonts
List of Unicode fonts showing the number of characters/glyphs included for the released version, and also showing font's license type.- AlphabetumAlphabetumAlphabetum is a commercial multilingual unicode font for ancient languages developed by Juan José Marcos.Alphabetum contains fonts for:*Aegean numerals*Anatolian scripts *Avestan*Brahmi...
(shareware, includes a few SMP character blocks. Over 5,490 characters in version 9.00) - Arial Unicode MSArial Unicode MSIn digital typography, the TrueType font Arial Unicode MS is an extended version of the font Arial. Compared to Arial, it includes higher line height, omits kerning pairs and adds enough glyphs to cover a large subset of Unicode 2.1—thus supporting most Microsoft code pages, but also requiring much...
(distributed along with Microsoft OfficeMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft Office is a non-free commercial office suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of...
(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.
- Cyberbit (free for non-commercial use. 29,934 glyphs in v2.0-beta.)
- Bitstream VeraBitstream VeraVera is a group typeface with a liberal license.It was designed by Jim Lyles from Bitstream, and it is closely based on Bitstream's Prima, for which Lyles was also responsible. It is a TrueType font with full hinting instructions, which improve its rendering quality on low-resolution devices such...
- ClearlyUClearlyUClearlyU is a bitmap unicode font developed by Mark Leisher.It contains 9,538 glyphs in v1.9. Includes characters from following unicode ranges: Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-B, IPA Extensions, Spacing Modifier Letters, Combining Diacritical Marks, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian,...
(Freeware. This family of bitmap fonts provides a set of 12 pt, 100 dpi proportional BDF fonts with many of the glyphs needed for Unicode text. 9,538 glyphs in v1.9.) - Code2000Code2000Code2000 is a pan-Unicode digital font, which includes characters and symbols from a very large range of writing systems. As of the current final version 1.171 released in 2008, Code2000 is designed and implemented by James Kass to include as much of the Unicode 5.2 standard as practical , and to...
(shareware Unicode font; supports the entire BMP. 63,888 glyphs in v1.15.)- Code2001 (freeware; supports the SMP. 2,944 glyphs in v0.917.)
- Code2002
- DejaVu fontsDejaVu fontsThe DejaVu fonts are modifications of the Bitstream Vera fonts designed for greater coverage of Unicode, as well as providing more styles. The Bitstream Vera family was limited mainly to the characters in the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement portions of Unicode but was released with a license...
(free. "DejaVu Sans" includes 3,471 glyphs and 2,558 kerning pairs in v2.6) - Doulos SILDoulos SILDoulos SIL is a serif typeface developed by SIL International, very similar to Times or Times New Roman. Unlike Times New Roman, Doulos only has a single face, Regular...
(free; designed for IPAInternational Phonetic AlphabetThe International Phonetic Alphabet "The acronym 'IPA' strictly refers [...] to the 'International Phonetic Association'. But it is now such a common practice to use the acronym also to refer to the alphabet itself that resistance seems pedantic...
. 3,083 glyphs in v4.014.) - Everson MonoEverson MonoEverson Mono is a monospaced humanist sans serif Unicode font whose development by Michael Everson began in 1995. At first, Everson Mono was a collection of 8-bit fonts containing glyphs for tables in ISO/IEC 10646; at that time, it was not easy to edit cmaps to have true Unicode indices, and there...
(also known as, Everson Mono Unicode. Shareware; contains all non-CJK characters. 4,899 glyphs in Macromedia Fontographer v4.1.3 2003-02-13.) - Fixedsys ExcelsiorFixedsys ExcelsiorFixedsys Excelsior is an unofficial pan-Unicode extension of the popular Microsoft font Fixedsys. The current version, last updated in 2007, is 3.01....
(freeware, 5,992 glyphs in v3.01, supports most glyphs in the basic plane except CJK) - Free UCS Outline FontsFree UCS Outline FontsFree UCS Outline Fonts is a project that produces a family of free computer fonts collectively known as GNU FreeFont, which are high-quality outline fonts, containing as much of the Universal Character Set as possible...
(freeware, "FreeSerif" freefont includes 3,914 glyphs in v1.52, MES-1 compliant) - GentiumGentiumGentium is a Unicode serif typeface designed by Victor Gaultney. Gentium fonts are free and open source software, and are released under the SIL Open Font License , which permits modification and redistribution. Gentium has wide support for languages using the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets,...
(free. 1,699 glyphs in v1.0.1, 2003.) - GNU UnifontGNU UnifontThe GNU Unifont by Roman Czyborra is a free bitmap font that covers the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane , using an intermediate bitmapped font format....
- Georgia RefGeorgia (typeface)Georgia is a transitional serif typeface designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter and hinted by Tom Rickner for the Microsoft Corporation, as the serif companion to the first Microsoft sans serif screen font, Verdana. Microsoft released the initial version of the font on November 1, 1996 as part of the...
(also distributed under the name "MS Reference Serif," extension of the Georgia typeface) - JunicodeJunicodeJunicode is a free old-style serif typeface developed by Peter S. Baker of the University of Virginia. The design is based on a 17th century typeface used in Oxford, England....
(free; includes many obsolete scripts, intended for mediævalists. 2,235 glyphs in v0.6.12.) - LastResort (fallback font covering all 17 Unicode planes, included with Mac OS 8.5Mac OS 8Mac OS 8 is an operating system that was released by Apple Computer on July 26, 1997. It represented the largest overhaul of the Mac OS since the release of System 7, some six years previously. It puts more emphasis on color than previous operating systems...
and up) - Lucida GrandeLucida GrandeLucida Grande is a humanist sans-serif typeface. It is a member of the Lucida family of typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. It has been used throughout Mac OS X user interface since 1999, as well as in Safari for Windows up to the browser's version 3.2.3 released on May 12,...
(UnicodeUnicodeUnicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
font included with Mac OS XMac OS XMac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
; includes 1,266 glyphs) - Lucida Sans UnicodeLucida Sans UnicodeIn digital typography, Lucida Sans Unicode OpenType font from the design studio of Bigelow & Holmes is designed to support the most commonly used characters defined in version 2.0 of the Unicode standard...
(included in more recent Microsoft WindowsMicrosoft WindowsMicrosoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
versions; only supports ISO 8859-x characters. 1,776 glyphs in v2.00.) - Gulim/New GulimNew GulimNew Gulim is a sans-serif type unicode font designed especially for the Korean-language script, designed by HanYang System Co., Limited . It is an expanded version of Hanyang Gulrim ....
and Dotum, rounded sans-serif and non-rounded sans-serif respectively, (distributed with Microsoft OfficeMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft Office is a non-free commercial office suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of...
2000. wide range of CJK (Korean) characters. 49,284 glyphs in v3.10.) - MS Gothic version 2.30 (14,965 glyphs with CJK and condensed Latin/Cyrillic), MS PGothic (14,965 glyphs with CJK and normal Latin/Cyrillic), MS UI Gothic (stronger kerns), distributed with Microsoft Office
- MS Mincho version 2.30 (14,965 glyphs, CJK, condensed Latin), MS PMincho (14,965 glyph, normal), distributed with Microsoft Office
- STIX (especially mathematics, symbols and Greek, see also XITS)
- Titus Cyberbit Basic (free; updated version of Cyberbit. 9,779 glyphs in v3.0, 2000.)
- Unicode fallback font (freeware fallback font for WindowsMicrosoft WindowsMicrosoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
) - URW++ Nimbus Sans Global
- Verdana RefVerdanaVerdana is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation, with hand-hinting done by Thomas Rickner, then at Monotype. Demand for such a typeface was recognized by Virginia Howlett of Microsoft's typography group...
(also distributed under the name "MS Reference Sans Serif," extension of the Verdana typeface) - Y.OzFontN (free. wide range of CJK (Japanese) characters. Includes few SMP character blocks. 59,678 glyphs in v9.13.)
- XITS (especially mathematics, symbols and Greek)
DingbatDingbatA dingbat is an ornament, character or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a "printer's ornament" or "printer's character"....
/Symbol fonts
- Apple Symbols (Included with Mac OS X)
- Bookshelf Symbol 7Bookshelf Symbol 7Bookshelf Symbol 7 is a typeface which was packaged with Microsoft Office 2003.In 2004, Microsoft released a critical update to remove two swastikas and a Star of David from this typeface, presumably after complaints from users who took the swastikas as support for Nazism.-External links:****...
- Cambria MathCambria (typeface)Cambria is part of the suite of fonts that comes with Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, specifically designed for on-screen reading and to be aesthetically pleasing when printed at small sizes. It is a...
- Commercial Pi
- Computer ModernComputer ModernComputer Modern is the family of typefaces used by default by the typesetting program TeX. It was created by Donald Knuth with his METAFONT program, and was most recently updated in 1992. However, the family font was superseded by CM-Super , the latest release dating 2008...
- Corel
- HM Phonetic (rasterRaster graphicsIn computer graphics, a raster graphics image, or bitmap, is a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium...
; consists of Greek letters and various symbols) - LucidaLucidaLucida is an extended family of related typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes in 1985.There are many variants called Lucida, including scripts , serif , and sans-serif .Bigelow & Holmes, together with the TeX vendor Y&Y, extended the Lucida family with a full...
Math - Mathematical Pi (Greek, Fraktur, and mathematical blackboard bold letters, mathematical symbols, with a larger glyph set than Symbol)
- OpenSymbol (Included with OpenOffice.orgOpenOffice.orgOpenOffice.org, commonly known as OOo or OpenOffice, is an open-source application suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software...
) - SymbolSymbol (typeface)Symbol is one of the four standard fonts available on all PostScript-based printers, starting with Apple's original LaserWriter . It contains a complete unaccented Greek alphabet and a selection of commonly used mathematical symbols...
(consists of Greek letters and mathematical symbols)- SymbolPS
- WingdingsWingdingsWingdings are a series of dingbat fonts which render letters as a variety of symbols. They were originally developed in 1990 by Microsoft by combining glyphs from Lucida Icons, Arrows, and Stars licensed from Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes...
- Wingdings 2
- Wingdings 3
- WebdingsWebdingsWebdings is a TrueType dingbat font developed in 1997 and included in all versions of Microsoft Windows since that time. Most of the glyphs have no Unicode character equivalents.-New York City:...
- Zapf DingbatsZapf DingbatsZapf Dingbats is one of the more common dingbat typefaces. It was designed by the typographer Hermann Zapf in 1978 and licensed by International Typeface Corporation....
Display/Decorative fonts
Simulation/Mimicry fonts
- Bagel
- LithosLithosLithos is a glyphic sans-serif typeface designed by Carol Twombly in 1989 for Adobe Systems. Lithos is inspired by the unadorned, geometric letterforms of the engravings found on Ancient Greek public buildings...
- PapyrusPapyrus (typeface)Papyrus is a widely available typeface designed by Chris Costello, a graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer.-History and overview:The font was created in 1982 and released the next year to foundry Letraset. It was hand-drawn over a period of six months by means of calligraphy pen and...
- Skia
See also
- Font family (HTML)Font family (HTML)In HTML and XHTML, a font face or font family is the typeface that will be applied by a web browser to some text. The font is relevant for the display of text on the screen, on a printer or another device....
- Font-management programFont-management programFont management software is utility software that computer users use to browse and preview fonts and typically to install and uninstall fonts. In addition, depending on the individual font management program's capabilities, users can also...
- Gaelic type
- List of Microsoft Windows fonts
- List of typefaces included with Mac OS X
- ScreenfontScreenfontA screenfont or screen font is:* a computer typeface created specifically for reading from a screen; or* another kind of typeface, like a print font, that is used for reading from a screen...
- Comparison of Unicode typefacesUnicode typefacesA Unicode font is a computer font that contains a wide range of characters, letters, digits, glyphs, symbols, ideograms, logograms, etc., which are collectively mapped into the standard Universal Character Set, derived from many different languages and scripts from around the world...