The German website selects 100 Best Fonts

This is the 100 best fonts ever selected by the German fontshop website.
Based on three criteria
Sales volume (weight 40%), historical value (weight 30%), and aesthetic value (30%). At the same time, all fonts that participate in the selection are commercial fonts and do not contain free fonts, OS built-in font, and that
Fonts used in some standard software (Arial, verdana, etc ). For a list of detailed results, see German version 100 Best fonts (PDF ).

Top 30 optimal Fonts

100 Best fonts (including designers and design years)

1. Helvetica [1957-Max Miedinger]

2. Garamond [1530-clude 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-G nter Gerhard Lange]

8. Officina [1990-Erik spiekermann]

9. Gill sans [1930-Eric Gill]

10. Univers [1954-Adrian frutiger]

11. optima [1954-Hermann zapl]

12. Franklin Gothic: [1903-Morris fuller Benton]

13. bembo [1496-Francesco Griffin]

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. Trinit [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 zafc]

27. letter Gothic [1956-Roger Roberts]

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 zapl]

39. Baskerville [1, 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 M llenst DT]

47. Caslon [1725-William Caslon]

48. Cooper black [1920-Oswald B. Cooper]

49. peignot [1937-A. M. Cassandre]

50. Bell Gothic [1938-Chauncey H. Griffin]

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 K ster]

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 centenrix [1978-Matthew Carter]

64. News Gothic [1908-Morris fuller Benton]

65. avenir [1988-Adrian frutiger]

66. Bernhard modern [1937-Lucian Bernhard]

67. ampltz [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. Using ate 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 rosum]

87. CLARENDON [1845-Benjamin Fox]

88. triplex [1989-Zuzana licko]

89. benguiat [1989-ed benguiat]

90. zapl Renaissance [1984-Hermann zapl]

91. Filosofia [1996-Zuzana licko]

92. Chalet [1996-house Industries]

93. quay sans [1990-David quay]

94. c zanne [1995-Michael want, James grieshaber]

95. REPORTER [1938-Carlos winkow]

96. Legacy [1992-Ronald arnhoma]

97. Agenda [1993-Greg Thompson]

98. Bello [2004-underware]

99. dalliance [2000-Frank Heine]

100. Mistral [1953-Roger excoffon]

Selection result PDF file (German ):

Http://www.fontshop.de/pdf/FontShop_100besteschriften.pdf

Source: http://justcreativedesign.com/2009/03/04/the-top-100-best-fonts-of-all-time,
Http://www.100besteschriften.de/index.php
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