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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