List of typefaces

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This is a list of typefaces, which are separated into groups by distinct artistic differences. The list includes typefaces that have articles or that are referenced. Superfamilies that fall under more than one category have an asterisk (*) after their name.

Serif


Slab serif

  • Alexandria
  • American Typewriter
  • Archer
  • Athens
  • Candida
  • Cholla Slab
  • City
  • Clarendon
  • Concrete Roman
  • Courier
  • Egyptienne
  • Guardian Egyptian
  • Legibility Group
    • Ionic No. 5
  • Lexia
  • Memphis
  • Nilland
  • Roboto Slab
  • Rockwell
  • Schadow
  • Serifa
  • Skeleton Antique
  • Tower


Sans-serif


Semi-serif

Monospace

Main page: Monospaced font


Script

Brush scripts


Calligraphic

  • American Scribe
  • AMS Euler
  • Apple Chancery
  • Forte
  • French Script
  • ITC Zapf Chancery
  • Kuenstler Script
  • Monotype Corsiva
  • Old English Text MT
  • Zapfino


Handwriting

  • Andy
  • Ashley Script
  • Cézanne
  • Chalkboard
  • Comic Sans MS
  • Comic Neue
  • Dom Casual
  • Freestyle Script
  • Kristen
  • Lucida Handwriting


Other script

  • Coronet
  • Curlz
  • Gravura
  • Script (vector font included with Windows 2.1)
  • Wiesbaden Swing


Blackletter

Main page: Social:Blackletter
  • Bastard
  • Breitkopf Fraktur
  • Fette Fraktur (Fraktur Bold)
  • Fletcher
  • Fraktur
  • Lucida Blackletter
  • Old English Text
  • Schwabacher
  • Tannenberg
  • Textualis (Textura)
  • Theuerdank Fraktur
  • Wallau


Non-Latin

  • Aharoni (including Hebrew script)
  • Aldhabi[1] calligraphic Arabic font by Microsoft.
  • Aisha (Arabic, Latin)
  • Aparajita (Angika, Bhojpuri, Bodo and other Indian languages)
  • Arek (Armenian, Latin)
  • Arial (Used in English, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages)[2]
  • Avory (Cyrillic, Greek, Latin)
  • Awami Nastaliq features a more extensive character set than most Nastaliq typefaces, supporting: Urdu, Balochi, Farsi (Iranian Persian), Khowar, Palula, Saraiki, Shina.[3] available from SIL website
  • Baloo (OFL typeface set for Indian languages)
  • Baloo for Devanagari (Hindi and other north Indian languages)
  • Baloo Bhai for Gujarati
  • Baloo Bhaijaan for Urdu
  • Baloo Bhaina for Oriya
  • Baloo Chettan for Malayalam
  • Baloo Da for Bengali
  • Baloo Paaji for Gurumukhi
  • Baloo Tamma for Kannada
  • Baloo Tammudu for Telugu
  • Baloo Thambi for Tamil
  • Calibri (Greek)
  • Chandas (Devanagari)
  • Clone (Cyrillic, Greek, Latin)
  • Corsair (Cyrillic, Greek, Latin)
  • Eskorte (Arabic, Latin)
  • Gadugi (Used by the American/Canadian Blackfoot tribe, and for the language called Carrier, and used by the Native American tribe of the Cherokee and for other languages)
  • Grecs du roi (Greek)
  • Hanacaraka (traditional Javanese script)
  • Japanese Gothic
  • Jomolhari (Tibetan script)
  • Kiran (Devanagari)
  • Kochi
  • Koren (Hebrew)
  • Kruti Dev (Devanagari)
  • Malgun Gothic (Korean sans-serif)
  • Meiryo (Japanese sans-serif gothic typeface)
  • Microsoft JhengHei (Traditional Chinese)
  • Microsoft YaHei (Simplified Chinese)
  • Minchō
  • Ming
  • Mona (Japanese)
  • MS Gothic
  • Nassim (Arabic, Latin)
  • Nastaliq Navees
  • Neacademia (Cyrillic, Latin)
  • Noto Sans[4]
  • Noto Serif[4]
  • Perpetua Greek[5]
  • Porson (Greek)
  • Segoe UI Symbol (Latin, Braille, Coptic and Gothic)
  • Shruti (Gujarati)
  • Skolar (a multi-script font family with Arabic, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Gujarati and Latin scripts)
  • Skolar Sans (in Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Latin)
  • SimSun
  • Sylfaen (a multi-script serif font family, for various non-Latin scripts and is for the languages Armenian and Georgian)
  • Sutturah (Cyrillic, Latin)
  • Tahoma[6] has a very extensive character set including:
  • Latin (extended including: "Latin 2" for eastern Europe, Turkish, and Vietnamese)[6]
  • Arabic[6] (extended character set covering Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, and others)
  • and other alphabets: Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Thai.[6]
  • Tengwar
  • Tibetan Machine Uni
  • Urdu Typesetting[7] is designed for Urdu. The character set covers other languages (such as Arabic and Persian) but the Nastaliq style is unusual for modern documents in languages other than Urdu.
  • Wilson Greek


Unicode fonts

Main page: Unicode font

This list of more comprehensive Unicode fonts, including open-source Unicode typefaces, showing the number of characters/glyphs included for the released version, and also showing font's license type:


  • Alphabetum (shareware, includes a few SMP character blocks. Over 5,490 characters in version 9.00)
  • Arial Unicode MS (distributed along with Microsoft Office (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.
  • Bitstream Cyberbit (free for non-commercial use. 29,934 glyphs in v2.0-beta.)
  • Bitstream Vera (free/open source, limited coverage with 300 glyphs, DejaVu fonts extend Bitstream Vera with thousands of glyphs)
  • Charis SIL (free/open source, over 4,600 glyphs in v4.114)
  • Code2000 (shareware Unicode font; supports the entire BMP. 63,888 glyphs in v1.15. Abandoned.)
    • Code2001 (freeware; supports the SMP. 2,944 glyphs in v0.917. Abandoned.)
    • Code2002
  • DejaVu fonts (free/open source, "DejaVu Sans" includes 3,471 glyphs and 2,558 kerning pairs in v2.6)
  • Doulos SIL (free/open source, designed for IPA, 3,083 glyphs in v4.014.)
  • EB Garamond (free/open source, includes 3,218 glyphs in 2017)
  • Everson Mono (also known as, Everson Mono Unicode. Shareware; contains all non-CJK characters. 4,899 glyphs in Macromedia Fontographer v4.1.3 2003-02-13.)
  • Fallback font (freeware fallback font for Windows)
  • Free UCS Outline Fonts aka FreeFont (free/open source, "FreeSerif" includes 3,914 glyphs in v1.52, MES-1 compliant)
  • Gentium (free/open source, "Gentium Plus" includes over 5,500 glyphs in November 2010)
  • GNU Unifont (free/open source, bitmapped glyphs are inclusive as defined in unicode-5.1 only)
  • Georgia Ref (also distributed under the name "MS Reference Serif," extension of the Georgia typeface)
  • Gulim/New Gulim and Dotum, rounded sans-serif and non-rounded sans-serif respectively, (distributed with Microsoft Office 2000. wide range of CJK (Korean) characters. 49,284 glyphs in v3.10.)
  • Junicode (free; includes many obsolete scripts, intended for mediævalists. 2,235 glyphs in v0.6.12.)
  • Kurinto Font Folio (open source (OFL), pan-Unicode, 21 typefaces, 506 fonts; v2.196 (July 26, 2020) has coverage of most of Unicode v12.1 plus many auxiliary scripts including the UCSUR)
  • LastResort (fallback font covering all 17 Unicode planes, included with Mac OS 8.5 and up)
  • Lucida Grande (Unicode font included with macOS; includes 1,266 glyphs)*
  • Lucida Sans Unicode (included in more recent Microsoft Windows versions; only supports ISO 8859-x characters. 1,776 glyphs in v2.00.)*
  • MS Gothic (distributed with Microsoft Office, 14,965 glyphs in v2.30)
  • MS Mincho (distributed with Microsoft Office, 14,965 glyphs in v2.30)
  • Nimbus Sans Global
  • Noto, a family of fonts designed by Google: nearly 64,000 glyphs as of 2018.
  • PragmataPro, a modular monospaced font family designed by Fabrizio Schiavi, Regular version includes more than 7000 glyphs
  • Squarish Sans CT v0.10 (1,756 glyphs; Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and more)
  • STIX (especially mathematics, symbols and Greek, see also XITS)
  • Titus Cyberbit Basic (free; updated version of Cyberbit. 9,779 glyphs in v3.0, 2000.)
  • Verdana Ref (also distributed under the name "MS Reference Sans Serif," extension of the Verdana typeface)
  • XITS (especially mathematics, symbols and Greek)


Dingbat/Symbol fonts

Main page: Dingbat


Display/Decorative fonts

  • Ad Lib
  • Allegro
  • Andreas
  • Arnold Böcklin
  • Astur
  • Banco
  • Bauhaus
  • Braggadocio
  • Broadway
  • Caslon Antique
  • Cooper Black
  • Curlz
  • Ellington
  • Exocet
  • FIG Script
  • Forte
  • Gabriola
  • Horizon
  • Jim Crow
  • Lo-Type
  • Neuland
  • Peignot
  • San Francisco
  • Stencil
  • Umbra
  • Westminster
  • Willow
  • Windsor


Ethnic fonts

  • Lithos (Greek)
  • Höfðaletur (Icelandic)

Miscellaneous

Typefaces with an asterisk(*) after their name are part of a superfamily that belongs to multiple categories.

See also

References