100 Best Fonts of All Times

The following list of 100 Best Fonts of All Times is based on a survey conducted by FontShop. In the survey, FontShop judges ranked fonts by their objective as well as other objective measurements such as the sales figures, bestseller lists, etc.

It should be noted that the survey doesn’t include free fonts, operating system fonts, therefore excluding fonts like Arial, Verdana, Century Gothic, Trebuchet etc. You can view more details about the survey and its scoring criteria here.

01. Helvetica   Designer/Date:Max Miedinger/1957   Info: Fonts in use

02. Garamond   Designer/Date: Claude Garamond/1530   Info: Fonts in use

03. Frutiger    Designer/Date: Adrian Frutiger/ 1977   Info: Fonts in use

04. Bodoni   Designer/Date: Giambattista Bodoni/ 1790   Info: Fonts in use

05. Futura   Designer/Date: Paul Renner/ 1927   Info: Fonts in use

06. Times   Designer/Date: Stanley Morison/ 1931   Info: Fonts in use

07. Akzidenz Grotesk   Designer/Date: Günter Gerhard Lange/ 1966   Info: Fonts in use

08. Officina   Designer/Date: Erik Spiekermann   Info: Fonts in use

09. Gill Sans    Designer/Date: Eric Gill/ 1930   Info: Fonts in use

10. Univers   Designer/Date: Adrian Frutiger/ 1954   Info: Fonts in use

11. Optima    Designer/Date: Hermann Zapf / 1954   Info: Fonts in use

12. Franklin Gothic   Designer/Date: Morris Fuller Benton/ 1903   Info: Fonts in use

13. Bembo    Designer/Date: Francesco Griffo/ 1496   Info: Fonts in use

14. Interstate    Designer/Date: Tobias Frere-Jones/ 1993   Info: Fonts in use

15. Thesis    Designer/Date: Lucas de Groot/ 1994   Info: Fonts in use

16. Rockwell    Designer/Date: Frank H. Pierpont/ 1934   Info: Fonts in use

17. Walbaum    Designer/Date: Justus Walbaum/ 1800   Info: Fonts in use

18. Meta    Designer/Date: Erik Spiekermann   Info: Fonts in use

19. Trinite   Designer/Date: Bram De Does/ 1982

20. Din    Designer/Date: Ludwig Goller/ 1926   Info: Fonts in use

21. Matrix   Designer/Date: Zuzana Licko/ 1986   Info: Fonts in use

22. OCR    Designer/Date: American Type Founders/ 1965   Info: Fonts in use

23. Avant Garde   Designer/Date: Herb Lubalin/ 1968   Info: Fonts in use

24. Lucida   Designer/Date: Chris Holmes & Charles Bigelow/1985

25. Sabon   Designer/Date: Jan Tschichold/ 1964

26. Zapfino   Designer/Date: Hermann Zapf/ 1998   Info: Fonts in use

27. Letter Gothic   Designer/Date: Roger Roberson/ 1956   Info: Fonts in use

28. Stone   Designer/Date: Sumner Stone/ 1987

29. Arnhem   Designer/Date: Fred Smeijers/ 1998

30. Minion   Designer/Date: Robert Slimbach/ 1990   Info: Fonts in use

31. Myriad    Designer/Date: Tombly & Slimbach/ 1992   Info: Fonts in use

32. Rotis    Designer/Date: Otl Aicher/ 1988   Info: Fonts in use

33. Eurostile   Designer/Date: Aldo Novarese/ 1988   Info: Fonts in use

34. Scala    Designer/Date: Martin Majoor/ 1991   Info: Fonts in use

35. Syntax    Designer/Date: Hans Eduard Meier/ 1968

36. Joanna    Designer/Date: Eric Gill/ 1930   Info: Fonts in use

37. Fleischmann   Designer/Date: Erhard Kaiser/ 1997

38. Palatino    Designer/Date: Hermann Zapf/ 1950   Info: Fonts in use

39. Baskerville   Designer/Date: John Baskerville/ 1754   Info: Fonts in use

40. Fedra    Designer/Date: Peter Bilak/ 2002

41. Gotham   Designer/Date: Tobias Frere-Jones/2000   Info: Fonts in use

42. Lexicon   Designer/Date: Bram De Does/ 1992

43. Hands    Designer/Date: Letterror/ 1991

44. Metro   Designer/Date: W. A. Dwiggins/ 1929

45. Didot    Designer/Date: Firmin Didot/ 1799   Info: Fonts in use

46. Formata    Designer/Date: Bernd Möllenstädt/ 1984

47. Caslon   Designer/Date: William Caslon/ 1725   Info: Fonts in use

48. Cooper Black   Designer/Date: Oswald B. Cooper/1920   Info: Fonts in use

49. Peignot    Designer/Date: A. M. Cassandre/ 1937   Info: Fonts in use

50. Bell Gothic   Designer/Date: Chauncey H. Griffith/ 1938

51. Antique Olive   Designer/Date: Roger Excoffon/ 1962   Info: Fonts in use

52. Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch   Designer/Date: Rudolf Koch/ 1926

53. Info   Designer/Date: Erik Spiekermann/ 1996   Info: Fonts in use

54. Dax   Designer/Date: Hans Reichel/ 1995   Info: Fonts in use

55. Proforma   Designer/Date: Petr van Blokland/ 1988

56. Today Sans   Designer/Date:Volker Küster/ 1988

57. Prokyon   Designer/Date: Erhard Kaiser/ 2002

58. Trade Gothic    Designer/Date: Jackson Burke / 1948   Info: Fonts in use

59. Swift    Designer/Date: Gerhard Unger/ 1987

60. Copperplate Gothic   Designer/Date: Frederic W. Goudy/1901   Info: Fonts in use

61. Blur    Designer/Date: Neville Brody/ 1992   Info: Fonts in use

62. Base   Designer/Date: Zuzana Licko/ 1995

63. Bell Centennial   Designer/Date: Matthew Carter/ 1978

64. News Gothic   Designer/Date: Morris Fuller Benton/ 1908   Info: Fonts in use

65. Avenir   Designer/Date: Adrian Frutiger/ 1988   Info: Fonts in use

66. Bernhard Modern   Designer/Date: Lucian Bernhard/ 1937   Info: Fonts in use

67. Amplitude   Designer/Date: Christian Schwartz/ 2003

68. Trixie   Designer/Date: Erik van Blokland/ 1991   Info: Fonts in use

69. Quadraat    Designer/Date: Fred Smeijers/ 1992

70. Neutraface   Designer/Date: Christian Schwartz/ 2002   Info: Fonts in use

71. Nobel   Designer/Date: Sjoerd de Roos/ 1929

72. Industria   Designer/Date: Neville Brody/ 1990

73. Bickham Script   Designer/Date: Richard Lipton/ 1997   Info: Fonts in use

74. Bank Gothic   Designer/Date: Morris Fuller Benton/ 1930   Info: Fonts in use

75. Corporate ASE   Designer/Date: Kurt Weidemann/ 1989   Info: Fonts in use

76. Fago   Designer/Date: Ole Schäfer/ 2000   Info: Fonts in use

77. Trajan   Designer/Date: Carol Twombly/ 1989   Info: Fonts in use

78. Kabel    Designer/Date: Rudolf Koch/ 1927   Info: Fonts in use

79. House Gothic 23   Designer/Date: Tal Leming/ 1995

80. Kosmik   Designer/Date: Erik van Blokland/ 1993

81. Caecilia   Designer/Date: Peter Matthias Noordzij/ 1990   Info: Fonts in use

82. Mrs Eaves   Designer/Date: Zuzana Licko/ 1996   Info: Fonts in use

83. Corpid   Designer/Date: Lucas de Groot/1997

84. Miller   Designer/Date: Matthew Carter/ 1997

85. Souvenir   Designer/Date: Morris Fuller Benton/ 1914   Info: Fonts in use

86. Instant Types   Designer/Date: Just van Rossum/ 1992

87. Clarendon   Designer/Date: Benjamin Fox/ 1845   Info: Fonts in use

88. Triplex   Designer/Date: Zuzana Licko/ 1989   Info: Fonts in use

89. Benguiat   Designer/Date: Ed Benguiat/ 1989   Info: Fonts in use

90. Zapf Renaissance   Designer/Date: Hermann Zapf/ 1984

91. Filosofia   Designer/Date: Zuzana Licko/ 1996

92. Chalet   Designer/Date: House Industries/ 1996

93. Quay Sans   Designer/Date: David Quay/ 1990

94. Cezanne   Designer/Date: M. Want & J. Greishaber/ 1995   Info: Fonts in use

95. Reporter   Designer/Date: Carlos Winkow/ 1938

96. Legacy   Designer/Date: Ronald Arnholm/ 1992

97. Agenda   Designer/Date: Greg Thompson/ 1993

98. Bello   Designer/Date: Underware/ 2004   Info: Fonts in use

99. Dalliance   Designer/Date: Frank Heine/ 2000   Info: Fonts in use

100. Mistral   Designer/Date: Roger Excoffon/ 1953   Info: Fonts in use