Typeface lists
- (Except where I say do not), These are not recommendations! That takes more work.
I might boil down into recommendations later. This is more just
a catalogue of stuff I had open in browser tabs.
- Needs much older material brought in from my Quora answer about alternatives to Helvetica.
- Notes may be wildly incorrect and subjective.
- Lists are in no particular order, have not been filtered for excellence;
they just include things that I felt were good or interesting enough.
FOUNDRIES
DO NOT USE FOR BODY
UNDER-RATED SANS
BOOK SERIFS
- okaytype.com/harriet#specimens - revives Baskerville via Scotch Romans
- legacy.lineto.com/ ; https://lineto.com/typefaces/bradford/ - LL Bradford - revives Plantinesques
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Crimson+Pro
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Old+Standard+TT - Century, condensed-ish
- www.type-together.com/ploquine-font - elegant slab serif
- www.fatype.com/typefaces/make - Plantin inspired
- www.julytype.com/typefaces/jt-peleton
- www.typotheque.com/fonts/nocturno - great, egyptian/plantinesque
- www.dstype.com/fonts/bluteau-pro - optical sizes
- store.typenetwork.com/foundry/orangeitalic/series/farnham - nice optical sizes
- www.typemates.com/fonts/meret - compact, newspaper
- www.typemates.com/fonts/pensum-pro - lovely book face
- Bridge Text
- www.suitcasetype.com/fonts/teimer/styles - stunning didone
- www.suitcasetype.com/fonts/crabath - gorgeous garamondesque - optical sizes
- www.suitcasetype.com/fonts/icona-serif - a plantin ?
- commercialtype.com/catalog/duplicate_ionic - clarendon, compact
- fontreviewjournal.com/galaxie-copernicus/ - outstanding plantin revival
- www.type-together.com/literata-font - superfamily, optical sizes
- productiontype.com/font/gamuth/gamuth-text - “dutch baroque”
- www.myfonts.com/collections/ingeborg-font-typejockeys - display and text, didone
- www.typography.com/fonts/chronicle-text/overview - “blended scotch”
- www.myfonts.com/collections/fulmar-font-cast/ - “modern scotch”
- www.myfonts.com/collections/calvino-font-zetafonts - garalde; text/display
- www.myfonts.com/collections/passenger-serif-font-indian-type-foundry - clarendon
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Neuton - compact, robust, monolinear
- commercialtype.com/catalog/canela/canela - caslon… transitional…
- www.myfonts.com/products/sole-serif-complete-family-package-76428 - optical sizes, handsome, robust
- www.myfonts.com/collections/garalda-font-type-together - elegant garamond revival
- www.myfonts.com/collections/ashbury-font-hoftype - caslon-esque
- www.myfonts.com/collections/legitima-font-cesar-puertas - italianate? venetian????? aldine????
- processtypefoundry.com/fonts/elena/ - calligraphic, nice italic
- carterandcone.com/font/miller-text/
- www.typotheque.com/blog/william-a-contemporary-interpretation-of-caslon-types
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Libre+Caslon+Text
- www.myfonts.com/collections/founders-caslon-font-itc - caslon revival, optical sizes
- www.myfonts.com/products/espinosa-nova-complete-family-package-316060 - optical sizes
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Spectral
- www.myfonts.com/collections/abril-titling-font-type-together (actually display)
- typetura.com/blog/showcasing-roslindale-specimen-microsite/ - optical sizes
- www.myfonts.com/collections/tasman-font-re-type
- www.myfonts.com/collections/fs-brabo-paneuropean-font-fontsmith
- www.myfonts.com/collections/yoga-pro-font-fontfont
- www.myfonts.com/collections/preto-serif-ot-std-font-dizajndesign
- connary.com/artifex.html
- blackletra.com/typefaces/drummond
- www.myfonts.com/collections/olympian-font-linotype - Matthew Carter
- www.herzbergdesign.com/thanatos - optical sizes
- artifyassets.com/nicholas-font-family-a-modern-classic-from-shinntype/
- www.zetafonts.com/calvino
- Sharp Serif
- Dover Text
- Arsen
- Apolline
- Austerlitz
- Le Monde
- Fournier
- Sabon Next
- Dato Serif - this looks very interesting but is not released since 2012!
- Blanco - lovely Plantinesque
- Dinamo Otto
- IvyOra - lovely Caslonesque (Dutch Antiqua); optical sizes
- Immortel - optical sizes, and four lovely “humours”
- Klim Epicene
ENGINEERING FACES
ALTERNATIVES TO HELVETICA
MONOSPACE
UTILITY
MISC