Typeface Trivia

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Contents

• Influential Typefaces
• Typography Terms
• Type Anatomy
• Font Variants
• Font File Formats
• Default Fonts
• Fonts in American Election
• Type Classification
• Notable Type Foundries
• Type Designers
• Timeline
• Open-Source Projects
• Custom Corporate Fonts
• Noteworthy Free Fonts
• Fonts for code
• Free Typefaces by Foundries
• Aggregators
• Web Tools
• More
  • Top 100 typefaces
  • Most adopted fonts
  • Fonts used in road signs

Influential Typefaces

1. BASKERVILLE Designed by John Baskerville, 1757
2. BODONI Designed by Giambattista Bodoni, 1790s
3. ADOBE CASLON Designed by Carol Twombly, 1990, based on pages printed by William Caslon, 1734-70
4. CENTAUR Designed by Bruce Rogers, 1912-14. The italic, by Frederic Warde, is based on the fifteenth-century hand of Ludovico delgi Arrighi.
5. CENTURY EXPANDED Designed by Morris Fuller Benton, 1900
6. CLARENDON Named for the Clarendon Press, Oxford, who commissioned it in 1845
7. HTF DIDOT Designed by Jonathan Hoefler, 1992, inspired by the types of Francois Ambroise Didot, 1784
8. FEDRA SANS Designed by Peter Bilak, 2001, who was asked to create a "de-Prostestantized Univers"
9. FILOSOFIA Designed by Zuzana Licko, 1996, a revival of the types of Bodoni
10. FRUTIGER Designed by Adrian Frutiger, 1976
11. FRANKLIN GOTHIC Designed by Morris Fuller Benton, 1904
12. FUTURA Designed by Paul Renner, 1927, who sought an "honest expression of technical processes."
13. GEORGIA Designed by Matthew Carter, 1996, for display on screen
14. GILL SANS Designed by Eric Gill, 1928. It has been described as Britain's Helvetica.
15. ADOBE GARAMOND Designed by Robert Slimbach, 1989, based on pages printed by Claude Garamond in the sixteenth century
16. GOTHAM Designed by Tobias Frere-Jones, 2000, inspired by lettering found at Port Authority Bus Terminal, New York City
17. HELVETICA Designed by Max Miedinger, 1957
18. HOEFLER TEXT Designed by Jonathan Hoefler, c. 1995
19. INTERSTATE Designed by Tobias Frere-Jones, 1993, inspired by U.S. highway signs
20. ADOBE JENSON Designed by Robert Slimbach, 1995
21. META Designed by Erik Spiekermann, 1991
22. MRS EAVES Designed by Zuzana Licko, 1996, inspired by pages printed by John Baskerville
23. NEUTRAFACE Designed by Christian Schwartz, House Industries, 2002, based on lettering created by the architect Richard Neutra in the 1940s and 1950s
24. NOBEL Designed by Tobias Frere-Jones, 1993, based on 1929 types by the Dutch typographer Sjoerd Henrik de Roos. Frere-Jones describes Nobel as "Futura cooked in a dirty pan."
25. NEWS GOTHIC Designed by Morris Fuller Benton, 1908
26. QUADRAAT Designed by Fred Smeijers, 1992
27. SABON Designed by Jan Tschichold, 1966, inspired by the sixteenth-century types of Claude Garamond
28. SCALA Designed by Martin Majoor, 1991
29. THESIS SERIF Designed by Lucas de Groot, 1994
30. TRADE GOTHIC Designed by Jackson Burke, 1948-60, inspired by nineteenth-century grotesques
31. UNIVERS Designed by Adrian Frutiger, 1957
32. VERDANA Designed by Matthew Carter, 1996, for display on screen
33. WALBAUM Designed by Justus Erich Walbaum, 1800

Source: Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton

Typography Terms

1. Grotesk: The common German name for sans serif faces, as opposed to “Antiqua” which means serif face.
2. Antiqua: The common German and Scandinavian names for serif faces, The Scandinavian name is “Antikva”.
3. Roman: Standard type style or regular weight of an upright typeface
4. Diacritics: A diacritic is an ancillary mark or sign added to a letter. Accents are one type of diacritics.
5. Dingbats: Decorative symbols and characters that are generally not included in a font or character set, including boxes, bullets, arrows, pointers, and other characters. Often made up into their own font.
6. Oldstyle figures: Numbers that have different heights, some aligning to the baseline, some below. Oldstyle figures harmonize well with lowercase letters. Using oldstyle figures helps keep the numbers from standing out too much and disturbing the overall flow of the typography on the page. Oldstyle figures can be proportional or tabular.
7. Lining figures (LF): Numbers that rest on the baseline, and are usually the same height as capital letters. Lining figures can be tabular or proportional.
8. Font: particular size or style of a typeface, say 10 point regular or 24 point italic.
9. Typeface: the specific design of the letters, say Times New Roman or Baskerville.
10. Glyph: individual symbols of the typeface, say letter, number, punctuation mark, accented variations, etc.
11. Baseline, Cap Line, x-Height
12. Tracking is Letter-Spacing.
13. Kerning is spacing between two specific letters, eg. LT, VA or To.
14. Leading is Line-Spacing.
15. Fixed-width is Monospaced.
16. Italics is not same as Slanted or Oblique.
17. Ink trap An ink trap is an intentional negative space built into the design of characters’ letterforms to literally trap ink at certain intersections of the strokes, where ink might pool or bleed and create an undesirable emboldening of the text. It is only needed for small point sizes and are usually only found on typefaces designed for printing on newsprint. But in modern typefaces often serve a more stylistic purpose rather than their traditional intent.
18. Widows & orphans A widow is the one (or few) words that appears at the top of a new page. An orphan is a single word (or syllable) that sits at the bottom of a paragraph of text.
19. Faux, fake, pseudo, or synthesized - When software attempts to emulate an italic style, bold (or other) weight, ordinals, or small caps in lieu of actual font files for those variants.

Type Anatomy

Examples depend on the typeface, may not be present in this font.

1. Aperture: partially enclosed, somewhat rounded negative space (n, c, C, s, S, e)
2. Apex: in the capital ‘A’.
3. Arm: A horizontal or upward, sloping stroke that does not connect. (r, E, F, T, V)
4. Ascender: partially enclosed, somewhat rounded negative space (b, d, f, h, k)
5. Axis / Stress: An imaginary line drawn from top to bottom of a glyph bisecting the upper and lower strokes is the axis.
6. Ball / Teardrop Terminal (‘f’)
7. Beak: decorative stroke at the end of the arm (More pronounced serifs of E, F)
8. Bowl: The curved part of the character that encloses the circular or curved parts (or counter) (d,b,o,g,D,B)
9. Counter: The open or negative space in a fully or partly closed area within a letter. Bowl + Aperture letters.
10. Cross Stroke: (f/t)
11. Crossbar: horizontal stroke across the middle of uppercase ‘A’ and ‘H’.
12. Crotch: (V/W/Y) - where two strokes meet and form an interior angle.
13. Descender: Any part in a lowercase letter that extends below the baseline (g, j, p, q, y, etc.)
14. Double-storey: A double-storey ‘a’ or ‘g’ has two counters.
15. Ear: Typically found on the lowercase double storey ‘g’, an ear is a finishing stroke usually on the upper right side of the bowl.
16. Eye: Enclosed space in a lowercase ‘e’.
17. Finial / Taper
18. Flag: The horizontal stroke at the top of the numeral ‘5’.
19. Gadzook: An embellishment that connects the letters in a ligature but is not originally part of either letter.
20. Hook: of ‘f’,‘J’ and ‘j’.
21. Leg: (‘K’, ‘k’ and ‘R’)
22. Ligature: (‘fi’, ‘fl’, ‘ff’, ‘ffl’)
23. Loop/Lobe: In some double-storey ‘g’
24. Neck / Link: The link connecting the top and bottom bowls of some lowercase ‘g’.
25. Overshoot is the part of a letterform that extends above or below the vertical dimensions of flatter glyphs.
26. Shoulder: arm that is connected on both ends (‘h’, ‘m’, ‘n’)
27. Spine: The main curve in ‘S’ and ‘s’.
28. Spur: Small protruding part on uppercase ‘G’.
29. Stem
30. Swash: An elegant extension on a letter form, either a modification of an existing part or an added-on part.
31. Tail: of an uppercase ‘Q’.
32. Tittle: The dot on the ‘i’ and the ‘j’.
33. Vertex: The point at the bottom (or top) of a character where two strokes meet, for example the ‘v’, ‘V’, ‘w’, ‘W’ etc.

Font Variants

• Bold
• Italics
• Small Caps (SC)
• Normal/Roman/Medium/Text/Book/Regular
• Condensed / Narrow
• Extended
• Display / Titling
• Rounded
• Outline / Inline
• Shadowed
• Mono / Code

Font File Formats

1. TrueType (.ttf): Developed by Apple and Microsoft in the late 1980s, TrueType fonts are widely used and supported by both operating systems. They contain both the font outlines and the font instructions for rendering glyphs.

2. OpenType (.otf): A more versatile and modern font format developed by Adobe and Microsoft. OpenType fonts can contain more glyphs (characters), support more languages, include advanced typographic features, and have better cross-platform compatibility. OpenType fonts can also be either TrueType-based or PostScript-based.

3. PostScript Type 1 (.pfb, .pfm): Developed by Adobe, PostScript fonts were widely used in the past. They contain vector outlines of characters and were commonly used for printing. However, they've largely been replaced by OpenType fonts due to their limitations.

4. Web Open Font Format (WOFF, WOFF2): These formats are specifically optimized for web use. WOFF and WOFF2 are compressed font formats that help improve web page loading times by reducing file sizes. They are based on OpenType or TrueType fonts and are widely supported by modern web browsers.

5. Embedded OpenType (EOT): Another font format developed by Microsoft specifically for Internet Explorer. EOT fonts were created to address some security and licensing issues for web fonts but have been largely replaced by WOFF and WOFF2 formats.

6. SVG Fonts (.svg): Based on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), these fonts use XML to describe glyphs, and each character is defined using vector graphics. SVG fonts are less common and have been largely superseded by other formats due to limitations in features and compatibility.

7. Variable Fonts: Variable fonts contain multiple variations of a typeface (weight, width, slant, etc.) within a single file. They enable real-time adjustment of these attributes along a continuous spectrum, allowing for infinite possibilities of styles and weights. They offer dynamic control over attributes like weight, width, slant, and optical size, allowing smoother transitions between styles and enabling designers to fine-tune typography for various screen sizes, resolutions, and environments. They also reduce the number of HTTP requests and file downloads on the web, enhancing performance by delivering multiple font styles in a single file.

Default Fonts

Fonts in American Election

Type Classification

The common typeface classifications are:

1. Serif
2. Sans serif
3. Monospaced
4. Display
5. Script

Vox-ATypI classification (depricated)

┌── Classicals [Oldstyle/Antiqua]
│   ├── Humanist
│   ├── Garalde [Aldine]
│   └── Transitional [Realist]
│
├── Moderns
│   ├── Didone
│   ├── Mechanistic [Slab Serif/Egyptian]
│   └── Lineal [Sans-Serif/Grotesque/Gothic]
│       │
│       ├── Grotesque
│       ├── Neo-grotesque
│       ├── Geometric
│       └── Humanist
│
├── Calligraphics
│   ├── Glyphic [incised]
│   ├── Script [cursive]
│   ├── Graphic [manual]
│   ├── Blackletter
│   └── Gaelic
│
└── Non-Latin

Classicals

• Humanist: Centaur, Adobe Jenson, Trinité
• Garalde: Garamond, Bembo, Sabon, Minion, Palatino, Caslon, Janson
• Transitional: Baskerville, Times, Joanna, Mrs Eaves, Miller

Moderns

• Didone: Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Ambroise, Scotch Roman
• Mechanistic: Clarendon, Egyptienne, Rockwell
• Lineal

Lineal

• Grotesque: Akzidenz Grotesk, Franklin Gothic, Knockout
• Neo-grotesque: Univers, Helvetica, DIN, Bell Centennial, Folio, Interstate
• Geometric: Futura, Eurostile, Gotham, Neutraface, Twentieth Century, Kabel, Erbar
• Humanist: Gill Sans, Optima, Johnston, Frutiger, Meta, Myriad

Calligraphics

• Glyphic: Copperplate Gothic, Trajan, Lithos
• Script: Mistral, Francesca, Zapfino
• Graphic: Banco and Klang
• Blackletter: Fette Fraktur, Goudy Text, Old English
• Gaelic: Duibhlinn, Uncial

Notable Type Foundries

1. Monotype
   1. Linotype
   2. Ascender Corp
   3. Bitstream
   4. FontFont (FF) (erstwhile fontshop.com)
   5. Fontsmith
   6. URW Type Foundry
   7. Hoefler & Co.
   8. Berthold
   9. International Typeface Corporation (ITC)
   10. Colophon
2. Adobe Originals
3. American Type Founders (ATF) [Defunct]
4. Apple Inc.
5. Bauer type foundry
6. Blambot
7. Dalton Maag
8. Dharma Type
9. Emigre
10. Font Bureau
11. Google Design
12. Indian Type Foundry (ITF)
13. P22 Type Foundry
14. Typotheque

Type Designers

1. ADRIAN FRUTIGER (Swiss) Univers, Frutiger, Avenir
2. ALBERT-JAN POOL (Dutch) FF DIN, DIN 1451
3. CAROL TWOMBLY (American) Trajan, Myriad, Adobe Caslon
4. CLAUDE GARAMOND (French)
5. DONALD KNUTH (American) Computer Modern
6. ED BENGUIAT (American) Tiffany, Bookman, Panache, Souvenir, Benguiat and Benguiat Gothic.
7. EDWARD JOHNSTON (British)
8. ERIC GILL (British) Gill Sans, Perpetua, Joanna
9. ERIK SPIEKERMANN (German) FF Meta, ITC Officina Sans, FF Info
10. FIRMIN DIDOT (French)
11. FREDERIC GOUDY (American) Copperplate Gothic, Goudy Old Style and Kennerley
12. GIAMBATTISTA BODONI (Italian)
13. HERMANN ZAPF (German) Optima, Palatino, ITC Zapf Chancery, ITC Zapf Dingbats, Zapfino
14. JAN TSCHICHOLD (Swiss) Sabon, Zeus
15. JOHANN CHRISTIAN BAUER (German) Fette Fraktur
16. JOHANNES GUTENBERG (German)
17. JOHN BASKERVILLE (British)
18. JONATHAN HOEFLER (American) Hoefler Text, Requiem, Archer (with Frere-Jones)
19. MARGARET CALVERT (British) Transport, Rail Alphabet, Motorway, Calvert
20. MARTIN MAJOOR (Dutch) FF Scala (1991) Telefont (1994)
21. MATTHEW CARTER (British) Georgia, Verdana, Tahoma, Bell Centennial, Skia
22. MAX MIEDINGER (Swiss) Helvetica (with Eduard Hoffmann)
23. MORRIS FULLER BENTON (American) Franklin Gothic, Century Schoolbook, News Gothic, Bank Gothic, Hobo
24. NEVILLE BRODY (British) FF Blur, Industria, Arcadia
25. OSWALD BRUCE 'OZ' COOPER (American) Cooper Black
26. PAUL RENNER (German) Futura
27. ROBERT SLIMBACH (American) Minion, Adobe Garamond, Utopia, Garamond Premier
28. STANLEY MORISON (British) Times New Roman (with Victor Lardent), revival of Baskerville
29. STEVE MATTESON (American) Segoe, Aptos, Droid, Liberation font family, Noto and Open Sans
30. TOBIAS FRERE-JONES (American) Gotham, Interstate, Archer (with Jonathan Hoefler)
31. ZUZANA LICKO (Slovak-born American) Mrs Eaves (based on Baskerville) and Filosofia (based on Bodoni).

Timeline

┌── 1440 - Blackletter (Johannes Gutenberg)
├── 1470 - Roman Type (Nicolas Jenson)
├── 1501 - Italics (Aldus Manutius and Francesco Griffo)
│
├── 1720 - Old Style (William Caslon)
├── 1757 - Transitional (John Baskerville)
├── 1784 - Modern (Didot and Bodoni 1791)
├── 1803 - Fat Face (Robert Thorne)
│
├── 1816 - Sans Serif (William Caslon IV)
├── 1815 - Slab Serif (Vincent Figgins)
├── 1898 - Akzidenz-Grotesk
├── 1927 - Futura
├── 1957 - Univers, Helvetica
│
├── 1968 - Bitmap fonts
├── 1974 - Vector or Outline fonts
├── 1976 - Frutiger
├── 1982 - PostScript (Adobe)
├── 1991 - TrueType (Apple)
├── 1996 - OpenType (Microsoft)
├── 1996 - CSS
├── 2009 - Web Open Font Format (WOFF)
└── 2016 - Variable fonts

Printing Technology Eras

┌── 3200 BC - Handwriting and calligraphy
├── 220 AD - Woodblock printing
├── 1040 AD (China) - Movable type letterpress printing
├── 1450 AD (Europe) - Movable type letterpress printing
├── 1800s - Wooden font molds
├── 1890s - Continuous casting (Linotype) (Hot metal typesetting)
├── 1950s - Phototypesetting (Cold type)
└── 1980s to present - Digital typography

Often Disliked

There is no such thing as a bad font. There are only bad uses for fonts.

1. Algerian
2. Bleeding Cowboys
3. Brush Script
4. Chalkboard
5. Comic Sans
6. Cooper Black
7. Copperplate
8. Curlz
9. Hobo
10. Impact
11. Lobster
12. Lucida Handwriting
13. Papyrus
14. Souvenir
15. Trajan
16. Zapfino

Open-Source Projects

1. Bitstream Vera (donated by Matthew Carter) clones of Arial and Charter
2. DejaVu fonts - derived from Bitstream Vera (sans-serif) and Bitstream Charter (serif).
3. GNU FreeFont - Based on URW++ Nimbus, similar to Times, Helvetica and Courier.
4. Liberation Fonts - metrically compatible with Arial, Arial Narrow, Times New Roman and Courier New link
5. Linux Libertine - similar to Times and Optima
6. Nimbus Core - URW++ clones of Courier, Helvetica and Times
7. PT Fonts - by ParaType for the project "Public Types of Russian Federation"
8. QT Fonts - 151 fonts by Qualitype
9. STIX Fonts project - visually compatible with the Times New Roman family
10. The TeX Gyre (TG) Collection of Fonts
    1. Adventor (ITC Avant Garde Gothic)
    2. Bonum (ITC Bookman)
    3. Chorus (ITC Zapf Chancery)
    4. Cursor (Courier)
    5. Heros (Helvetica)
    6. Pagella (Palatino)
    7. Schola (Century Schoolbook)
    8. Termes (Times New Roman)

In early days Apple licensed fonts from Linotype and Microsoft from Monotype. Linotype and Monotype were the Apple vs. Microsoft of its era (i.e. hot metal typesetting days) and they had (metrically) similar fonts.

Superfamilies

A superfamily is the collective grouping of several explicitly related type families—such as a serif, sans, and slab—that all share the same underlying structure to their design.

1. Alegreya - Serif, sans serif, and samll caps
2. Bespoke - Sans, serif, slab, and stencil styes
3. Computer Modern (by Donald E. Knuth for TeX default) cmr (antiqua), cmss (grotesque) and cmtt (monospaced)
4. Corporate ASE (by Kurt Weidemann) antiqua, sans and Egyptienne
5. Droid (by Steve Matteson) Droid Sans, Droid Serif and Droid Sans Mono.
6. Fira - Sans, mono, and code ligatures
7. Gandhi - Serif and sans
8. IBM Plex (by Mike Abbink) IBM Plex Sans, IBM Plex Sans Condensed, IBM Plex Serif and IBM Plex Mono
9. Inria - Serif and sans serif, also swashes.
10. KP Serif & KP Sans-Serif
11. Liberation (by Steve Matteson) Liberation Sans, Liberation Serif and Liberation Mono
12. Merriweather + Sans
13. Noto fonts (by Google) comprising Noto Sans, Noto Serif and Noto Mono, an expansion of the Droid family.
14. PT Fonts (ParaType Russia) by Alexandra Korolkova et al, comprising PT Serif, PT Sans and PT Mono.
15. Quattrocento + Sans
16. Roboto (by Christian Robertson) Roboto, condensed, Roboto Slab and Roboto Mono
17. Rotis (by Otl Aicher) rotis serif, rotis semi-serif, rotis semi-sans and rotis sans
18. Sassoon (by Rosemary Sassoon and Adrian William) Sassoon Sans, Sassoon Book, Sassoon Primary, Sassoon Infant and Sassoon Sans Slope
19. Source (Adobe) by Paul D. Hunt and Frank Grießhammer, comprising Source Sans Pro, Source Serif Pro and Source Code Pro
20. Stone by Sumner Stone, comprising Stone Serif, Stone Sans and Stone Informal
21. Thesis by Lucas de Groot, comprising TheSans, TheSerif, TheMix and TheAntiqua

Custom Corporate Fonts

1. Airbnb Cereal by Dalton Maag on GitHub
2. Amazon Ember for Echo & Bookerly for Kindle by Dalton Maag
3. Apple's San Francisco on GitHub
4. Atlassian's Charlie Sans by Oh No Type
5. Balsamiq Sans Font on GitHub
6. BBC Reith by Dalton Maag
7. Cal Sans used by cal.com
8. Canva Sans by Colophon Foundry.
9. Cisco Sans on GitHub
10. Dropbox's Sharp Grotesk by Sharp Type
11. Duolingo's Feather Bold by Monotype
12. Durex's One Night Sans by Colophon Foundry
13. eBay's Market Sans
14. Goldman Sans
15. HackerNoon Font
16. HP Simplified by Dalton Maag Ltd
17. iA-Fonts on GitHub
18. Intel's Clear Sans & One Mono
19. Instagram Sans by Colophon
20. JetBrains Mono on GitHub
21. Meta's Optimistic Font by Dalton Maag and Saffron
22. Netflix Sans by Dalton Maag Ltd.
23. Nokia Pure by Dalton Maag Ltd replaced Nokia Sans created by Erik Spiekermann.
24. PayPal Sans by Klim Type Foundry
25. Reddit Sans
26. Red Hat fonts on GitHub by MCKL
27. Salesforce Sans by Monotype
28. SAP's 72 Font family
29. Samsung's Sharp Sans by Sharp Type for Galaxy & SamsungOne for One UI.
30. Spotify Circular, a geometric sans-serif typeface.
31. Supernotes' SN Pro - based on Nunito
32. TikTok Sans
33. Tripadvisor's Trip Sans by Colophon
34. Twilio Sans Mono by Sharp Type
35. Twitter's Chirp based on Grilli Type's GT America.
36. Uber Move by MCKL
37. Ubisoft Sans by Colophon
38. Ubuntu Font Family by Dalton Maag
39. Vercel's Geist
40. Vodafone typeface by Dalton Maag
41. Wix Madefor by Dalton Maag
42. YouTube Sans with design agency Saffron

Noteworthy Free Fonts

1. Adobe's Source Type Family on GitHub
2. Mozilla's Fira Type Family on GitHub
3. IBM Plex on GitHub
4. GitHub's Monaspace superfamily & Mona Sans
5. Public Sans by U.S. Web Design System (USWDS)
6. Inter originally built for Figma
7. Cooper Hewitt from Smithsonian Design Musium on GitHub
8. Atkinson Hyperlegible by Braille Institute for low vision readers
9. National Park Typeface
10. London Underground Dot-Matrix Typeface
11. Canada1500
12. Sweden Sans
13. Averia - the average font
14. B612 - Aeronautical Font by Airbus for cockpit screens
15. Routed Gothic Font - lettering style found on technical drawings (More links to other fonts)
16. Redaction
17. Cantarell
18. ZXX - Illegible to OCR
19. QCMU - to make diagrams of quantum circuits!
20. Scunthorpe Sans - censors bad language automatically
21. OpenDyslexic - A typeface for Dyslexia
22. Shake - A Typeface with Parkinson's
23. FE-Schrift - forgery-impeding typeface for licence plates.
24. LAIKA – a dynamic typeface
25. Luciole - for visually impaired people
26. +Jakarta Sans
27. Universal Sans

Fonts on GitHub (but not on google fonts)

1. Common Sans A neo-grotesque sans serif font family
2. Open Sauce Fonts Creative Sauce's internal type super family.
3. Open Runde rounded variant of Inter.
4. Young Serif a heavy weight old style serif typeface
5. Optician Sans Typeface based on the historical eye charts and optotypes used by opticians world wide.
6. Metropolis A modern, geometric typeface.
7. Wanted Sans Geometric with a heart, Humanist with a soul
8. Techna Sans Sharp, geometric typeface
9. Overused Grotesk - classic neo-grotesk Swiss design
10. Aspekta - modern sans-serif collection
11. basement grotesque
12. SORA typeface - neutral sans serif typeface
13. Helmet - a neo-grotesque display typeface.

Fonts for code

1. Iosevka
2. JetBrains Mono
3. Monaspace
4. Input
5. Hack
6. Berkeley Mono
7. Intel One Mono
8. Monocraft - Minecraft typeface
9. Miracode Sharper Monocraft
10. Commit Mono
11. Comic Code
12. Victor Mono
13. MonoLisa
14. mononoki
15. 0xProto

Free Typefaces by Foundries

1. Fontshare by Indian Type Foundry. 100 fonts, 59 pairs.
2. indestructible type* by Owen Earl. 7 typefaces.
3. UNCUT.wtf 150 typefaces.
4. Omnibus-Type 28 variable fonts.
5. Open Foundry 31 variable fonts.
6. The League Of Moveable Type 17 typefaces.
7. Free Faces 77 typefaces.
8. Collletttivo 12 typefaces.
9. Brick 60 typefaces.
10. The Velvetyne Type Foundry (VTF)
11. Collletttivo 12 typefaces.
12. Paratype 12 font families.

Aggregators

1. Google Fonts font files on GitHub
2. Fontsource 1695 families. NPM packages.
3. Online Web Fonts - font files from websites
4. Font Meme - Discover fonts used in popular culture.
5. FontBolt - Generate your text from pop culture fonts.
6. 1001 Free Fonts
7. Abstract Fonts 10,000+ fonts.
8. BeFonts
9. CreativeTacos 3300 fonts
10. DaFont 82,320 fonts.
11. Dafont Free 14,265 fonts.
12. Font.Download 200,000+ Free Fonts
13. Font Library 1,366 fonts.
14. Fontasy 1105 fonts
15. FontCubes
16. FontM
17. FontPalace
18. FontPark
19. FontReach 2,700 fonts.
20. FontRiver 60,000 fonts.
21. Fontsly
22. FontSpace
23. FontSpring
24. FontSquirrel
25. FontStruct
26. FontZone
27. FreebiesBug
28. Urban Fonts

Marketplaces

• Monotype Fonts
• MyFonts by Monotype
• Adobe Fonts

Web Tools

1. Beautiful Web Type 39 typefaces. Pairings, features.
2. Identifont - Fonts by appearance, name, similarity, designer or publisher.
3. NerdFonts - coding fonts with glyphs / icons patches.
4. ProgrammingFonts - test drive 138 programming fonts
5. Coding Font - find your favorite coding font
6. Dev Fonts - List of fonts for coding
7. TypeWar - Identify font game.
8. Shape Type - Adjust letter shape game.
9. Kern Type - a letter spacing / kerning game.
10. Modern Font Stacks System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS
11. System Font Stacks
12. Wakamai Fondue - What can my font do?
13. Golden Ratio Typography Calculator
14. Typescale
15. Modular Scale
16. Archetype - Font pairing and size
17. Fontjoy - Font pairing made simple
18. FontPair
19. WordMark - Compare multiple fonts in a visual grid.
20. Typefaceoff for facing off typefaces.
21. Font Library - Google fonts by tags
22. GooFonts - Google fonts tagged