The 100 Best Fonts

The top 100 fonts have been ranked. And the ranking is good.

The top 10 are:

1. Helvetica

2. Garamond

3. Frutiger (I might have put Frutiger up at number 2, but this high up is subjective.)

4. Bodoni

5. Futura

6. Times (I loathe Times because it’s overused.)

7. Akzidenz Grotesk. (I love Akzidenz)

8. Officina

9. Gill Sans

10. Univers

What is interesting is that only 2 of these fonts are serif fonts.

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3 Responses to “The 100 Best Fonts”

  1. Jo Says:
    January 28th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

    [quote] Frutiger (I might have put Frutiger up at number 2, but this high up is subjective.) [/unquote]

    isn’t this whole ranking very subjective in itself?
    Even if the jury consists of high profile font-enthousiasts (as it does) the ranking itself is just an aggregate of their individual (and thus subjective) opinion.

    That is not to say, i don’t like the ranking. Well except for slap-on-the-head-what-where-they-thinking Times at #6 and a few others.

    (I must admit that my understanding of the german language is close to nihil, so maybe the site describes a very scientific way of ranking the fonts, in which case i will very glady shut up)

  2. Darlene Says:
    March 26th, 2007 at 5:36 pm

    I would probably switch the Times font with the Palatino family and Baskerville.

    In addition, may I also suggest Zapfino as a beautiful calligraphy font.

    In terms of sans serif, Arial (Helvetica) is overly used as well but is versatile. Futura is awesome

  3. Loan market news Says:
    November 12th, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    Some one told me that TAHOMA is the best readable font, however I used mostly Arial & Times. What’s ur comment on this?

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