In this collection, you’ll find some of the best free and high-quality sans serif fonts for clean and professional designs that you can download on the web. Rex Free Font Rex is a font family with three weights – light, bold and bold inline – that was designed to create unique titles on the fly. … Continue reading
Suggestion: Idlewind with Knockout Idlewind with Claimcheck A distinctive typeface that’s at home everywhere it goes. For the longest time, we’ve been reaching for a typeface that wasn’t there. We knew it was something spare and tranquil, its letterforms reaching ambitiously outward, and we could hear it speaking in hushed but captivating tones. We imagined … Continue reading
Type Specimen is the first font viewer for iPad, revolutionizing the way digital fonts are presented today. It’s an ideal tool for people who need to select fonts for projects – be it magazine design, corporate identity design, web applications, or book typesetting. Type Specimen is a quick and easy way to navigate the type foundry, … Continue reading
David Berlow and staff drew Apres as part of a series designed originally for the Palm Pre smart phone, for use both on the device and in print marketing. Simple, open letterforms and generous proportions provide a clear, comfortable, and inviting experience for navigation and readability. The plain-spoken geometry is regular and balanced, without being … Continue reading
Ideal Sans by Hoefler & Frere-Jones Setting aside the easy pursuit of digital perfection, Ideal Sans favors handmade forms that help it achieve different goals: warmth, craftsmanship, and humanity. The first sans serif typefaces, designed in the early nineteenth century, bore the names of ancient cultures — “Egyptian,” “Ionic,” “Doric”, “Gothic” — even though these … Continue reading
The world is filled with recognizable and unique numbers that have never been available as fonts — until now. Every year, Pentagram chooses twelve beloved typefaces for its iconic Pentagram Calendar. Traditionally, the calendar features works by typographers past and present, from timeless standards like Garamond and Bodoni to modern classics such as Knockout and … Continue reading
New York Times Magazine Project Art direction by Arem Duplessis and Gail Bichler.Commissioned to replace the magazine’s trusted go-to sans Helvetica, Sunday is an expansive family of fonts for information in tiny spaces and headlines at large sizes. Exclusive to the New York Times until 2011. Design: Eric Olson.processtypefoundry.com
The Small Text versions are made specifically for use in small point sizes. The designer adjusted the thickness of the strokes and the proportions of the letters, so that they are easier to read in small sizes than the original – much like in the days of lead type when it was common to cut … Continue reading
Celeste Sans is a hybrid character, like its serif companion, Celeste. Author Chris Burke says: “The serif version is a deliberate attempt to temper the modern face (Didone) type model with old face (Garalde) elements; to mix what Swiss letterform theorists have called the static and the dynamic principles of letter construction. Allowing for historical fancy, … Continue reading
TV Guide Related Fonts: Sans Boomer, Boomer Serif, Quiosco Designed by: Robert Newman, James Reyman, Kate Thompson and Katherine Dillon Boomer Sans Cyrus Highsmith designed Boomer Sans & Boomer Serif as one series to tie the design of AARP The Magazine to AARP The Bulletin and AARP Segunda Juventud. Together the Boomers illustrate the guiding … Continue reading