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[]
Main article: Serif
- Adobe Jenson
- Albertus
- Aldus
- Alexandria
- Algerian
- American Typewriter
- Antiqua
- Arno *
- Aster
- Aurora
- News 706
- Baskerville
- Bell (Didone classification serif type designed by Richard Austin, 1788)
- Belwe Roman
- Bembo
- Berkeley Old Style
- Bernhard Modern
- Bodoni
- Bauer Bodoni
- Bookman
- Bulmer
- Caledonia
- Californian FB
- Calisto MT
- Cambria
- Capitals
- Cartier
- Caslon
- Caslon Antique / Fifteenth Century
- Catull
- Centaur
- Century Old Style*
- Century Schoolbook*
- New Century Schoolbook*
- Century Schoolbook Infant*
- Charis SIL
- Charter (typeface)
- Cheltenham
- Clearface
- Cochin
- Colonna
- Computer Modern
- Concrete Roman
- Constantia
- Cooper Black
- Copperplate Gothic
- Corona
- News 705
- DejaVu Serif
- Didot
- Droid Serif
- Elephant
- Emerson
- Excelsior
- News 702
- Fairfield
- FF Scala
- Footlight
- FreeSerif
- Friz Quadrata
- Garamond
- Gentium
- Georgia
- Gloucester
- Goudy Old Style / Goudy
- Granjon
- High Tower Text
- Hoefler Text
- IBM Plex Serif*
- Imprint
- Ionic No. 5
- ITC Benguiat
- Janson
- Jokerman
- Joanna
- Korinna
- Lexicon
- Liberation Serif
- Linux Libertine
- Literaturnaya
- Lucida Bright*
- Melior
- Memphis
- Miller
- Minion*
- Modern
- Mona Lisa
- Mrs Eaves*
- MS Serif
- New York (one of the original Macintosh system fonts)
- Nimbus Roman
- NPS Rawlinson Roadway
- OCR A Extended
- Palatino
- Perpetua
- Plantin
- Playbill
- Primer
- PT Serif
- Renault
- Requiem
- Rotis Serif*
- Sabon
- Sistina
- Source Serif Pro
- Souvenir
- STIX (see also XITS)
- Sylfaen
- Theano Didot
- Times New Roman
- Times (Linotype's version of Times New Roman)
- Torino
- Trajan
- Trinité
- Trump Mediaeval
- Utopia
- Vera Serif
- Wide Latin
- Windsor
- XITS
Slab serif[]
Main article: Slab serif
- Alexandria
- American Typewriter
- Archer
- Athens
- Candida
- Cholla Slab
- City
- Clarendon
- Concrete Roman
- Courier
- Egyptienne
- Ehu*
- Guardian Egyptian
- Ionic No. 5
- Lexia
- Memphis
- Nilland
- Roboto Slab
- Rockwell
- Schadow
- Serifa
- Skeleton Antique
- Somes Slab
- Tower
Sans-serif[]
Main article: Sans-serif
- Agency FB
- Akzidenz-Grotesk
- Andalé Sans
- Antique Olive
- Arial
- Arial Unicode MS
- Avant Garde Gothic
- Avenir
- Bank Gothic
- Bauhaus
- Bell Centennial
- Bell Gothic
- Benguiat Gothic
- Berlin Sans
- Brandon Grotesque
- Calibri
- Casey
- Century Gothic*
- Charcoal (Mac OS 9 system font)
- Chicago (pre-Mac OS 8 system font, still included with macOS)
- Clearview
- Comic Sans
- Compacta
- Corbel
- DejaVu Sans
- DIN
- Dotum
- Droid Sans
- Dyslexie (designed to mitigate some of the issues that dyslexics experience when reading)
- Ecofont
- Eras
- Esseltub
- Espy Sans
- Eurocrat
- Eurostile
- FF Dax
- FF Meta*
- FF Scala Sans
- Fira Sans
- Fira Mono
- Fira Code
- Fira Go
- Folio
- Franklin Gothic*
- FreeSans
- Frutiger
- Futura
- Geneva (one of the original Macintosh system fonts)
- Gill Sans*
- Gotham*
- Haettenschweiler
- Handel Gothic
- Hei
- Helvetica
- Highway Gothic
- Hobo
- IBM Plex Sans*
- Impact
- Industria
- Interstate
- Johnston/New Johnston
- Kabel
- Klavika
- Lato
- Liberation Sans
- Linux Biolinum
- Lucida Sans*
- Lydian
- Meiryo
- Meta
- Microgramma
- Modern (vector font included with Windows 2.1)
- Motorway (used on British motorway signs for route numbers)
- MS Sans Serif (included with all Microsoft Windows versions, superseded by Arial)
- Myriad*
- Neutraface
- Neuzeit S
- News Gothic
- Nimbus Sans L
- Nordstern
- Open Sans
- Optima
- Overpass
- Parisine (used by the RATP Group on their jurisdictions of Paris's transit system)
- Product Sans
- Proxima Nova
- PT Sans (made for all minority languages of Russian Federation)
- Rail Alphabet
- Roboto
- Rotis Sans
- San Francisco (sans-serif typeface) (default typeface in iOS 9 and above and OS X El Capitan and above)
- Segoe UI
- Skia (the first QuickDraw GX font, still found in macOS today)
- Source Sans Pro
- Sweden Sans
- Syntax
- System (Windows 3.x default)
- Tahoma
- Template Gothic
- Thesis Sans*
- Tiresias
- Trade Gothic
- Transport (used on British road signs)
- Trebuchet MS
- Twentieth Century (Tw Cen MT)
- Ubuntu
- Unica
- Univers
- Zurich
- Vera Sans
- Verdana
Semi-serif[]
- Nyala
- Rotis Semi Serif
- Easyreading
Monospace[]
Main article: Monospaced font
- 3x3
- Andalé Mono
- Arial Monospaced
- Bitstream Vera (Vera Sans Mono)
- Consolas
- Courier
- DejaVu Sans Mono
- Droid Sans Mono
- Everson Mono (also known as Everson Mono Unicode)
- Fira Mono
- Fira Code
- Fixed
- Fixedsys
- HyperFont
- IBM Plex Mono*
- Inconsolata
- Letter Gothic
- Liberation Mono
- Lucida Console*
- Lucida Sans Typewriter*
- Lucida Typewriter*
- Menlo
- MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition, several fonts)
- Monaco (one of the original Macintosh system fonts)
- Monospace
- MS Gothic
- MS Mincho
- Nimbus Mono L
- OCR-A (Optical Character Recognition)
- PragmataPro
- Prestige Elite (also known as Prestige, is similar to Courier)
- ProFont (a freeware font designed for easy readability at small sizes)
- Proggy programming fonts
- Roboto Mono
- SimHei
- SimSun
- Source Code Pro
- Terminal
- Ubuntu Mono
- Vera Sans Mono (Bitstream Vera)
Script[]
Main article: Script typeface
Brush scripts[]
- Balloon
- Brush Script
- Choc
- Dom Casual
- Mistral
- Papyrus
- Segoe Script
- Utopia
Calligraphic[]
Main article: Calligraphy
Handwriting[]
Main article: Handwriting
- Andy
- Ashley Script
- Cézanne
- Chalkboard
- Comic Sans MS
- Dancing Script
- Dom Casual
- Freestyle Script
- Kristen
- Lucida Handwriting*
Other script[]
- Coronet
- Curlz
- Gravura
- Script (vector font included with Windows 2.1)
- Wiesbaden Swing
Blackletter[]
Main article: Blackletter
- Bastard
- Breitkopf Fraktur
- Cloister Black
- Fette Fraktur
- Fletcher
- Fraktur
- Lucida Blackletter*
- Old English Text
- Schwabacher
Non-Latin[]
- Aharoni (including Hebrew script)
- Aldhabi 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)
- Avory (Cyrilic, Greek, Latin)
- Awami Nastaliq features a more extensive character set than most Nastaliq typefaces, supporting: Urdu, Balochi, Farsi (Iranian Persian), Khowar, Palula, Saraiki, Shina. 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 (Cyrilic, Greek, Latin)
- Corsair (Cyrilic, 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 (Cyrilic, Latin)
- Noto Sans
- Noto Serif
- Perpetua Greek
- Porson (Greek)
- Segoe UI Symbol (Latin, Braille, Coptic and Gothic)
- Shruti (Gujarati)
- Skolar (a multi-script font family with Arabic, Cyrilic, Devanagari, Greek, Gujarati and Latin scripts)
- Skolar Sans (in Arabic, Cyrilic, Greek, Latin)
- SimSun
- Sylfaen (a multi-script serif font family, for various non-Latin scripts and is for the languages Armenian and Georgian)
- Sutturah (Cyrilic, Latin)
- Tahoma has a very extensive character set including:
- Latin (extended including: "Latin 2" for eastern Europe, Turkish, and Vietnamese)
- Arabic (extended character set covering Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, and others)
- and other alphabets: Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Thai.
- Tengwar
- Tibetan Machine Uni
- Urdu Typesetting 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[]
This is a list of 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.)
- 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
- 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 article: Dingbat
- Apple Symbols (Included with macOS)
- Asana-Math
- Blackboard bold
- Bookshelf Symbol 7
- Cambria Math
- Computer Modern
- Lucida Math*
- Marlett
- Symbol (consists of Greek letters and mathematical symbols)
- Webdings
- Wingdings
- Wingdings 2
- Wingdings 3
- Zapf Dingbats
Display/Decorative fonts[]
Main article: Typeface#Ornamental typefaces
- 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[]
Main article: Typeface#Ethnic typefaces
- Lithos (Greek)
Miscellaneous[]
- Compatil
- Generis
- Grasset
- LED
- Luxi
- Sans forgetica (learning aid font)
Typefaces with an asterisk(*) after their name are part of a superfamily that belongs to multiple categories.
See also[]
- Adobe Originals
- Computer font
- Font family (HTML)
- Font management software
- Gaelic type
- List of Apple typefaces
- List of typefaces included with Microsoft Windows
- List of public signage typefaces
- List of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy
- List of typefaces included with macOS
- Record type