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— Based on a variety of factors listed below, these are the of all time. To say the least, ranking fonts is an obviously hard task how does one measure aesthetic quality, the benefit of an item, its value to humanity and so fourth? Well, in this particular German publication, the judges ranked the fonts by their objective and various other weighted measurements:. FontShop Sales Figures: 40%. Historical Value/Meaning: 30%.

Aesthetic Qualities: 30% It is also worth noting that this evaluation consisted exclusively of licensed or commercial fonts only. Free fonts or operating system fonts were not considered, nor were fonts integral to standard software (i.e.

Arial, Verdana, etc.). Font variations, which over the centuries have been individually interpreted by various Foundries, were uniquely evaluated as a class and the best variant was entered into the main judging process. Below is a preview of the top 33 fonts and beneath this image you can find the full list of the 100 best fonts. Top 100 Best Fonts Of All Time Below you will find the full list of the best 100 fonts along with the designer & the year in which they were designed.

Helvetica 1957 – Max Miedinger 2. Garamond 1530 – Claude Garamond 3. Frutiger 1977 – Adrian Frutiger 4. Bodoni 1790 – Giambattista Bodoni 5. Futura 1927 – Paul Renner 6. Times 1931 – Stanley Morison 7. Akzidenz Grotesk 1966 – G nter Gerhard Lange 8.

Officina 1990 – Erik Spiekermann 9. Gill Sans 1930 – Eric Gill 10.

Univers 1954 – Adrian Frutiger 11. Optima 1954 – Hermann Zapf 12. Franklin Gothic 1903 – Morris Fuller Benton 13. Bembo 1496 – Francesco Griffo 14. Interstate 1993 – Tobias Frere-Jones 15. Thesis 1994 – Lucas de Groot 16.

Rockwell 1934 – Frank H. Pierpont 17. Walbaum 1800 – Justus Walbaum 18.

Meta 1991 – Erik Spiekermann 19. Trinit 1982 – Bram De Does 20.

Din 1926 – Ludwig Goller 21. Matrix 1986 – Zuzana Licko 22. OCR 1965 – American Type Founders 23. Avant Garde 1968 – Herb Lubalin 24.

Lucida 1985 – Chris Holmes / Charles Bigelow 25. Sabon 1964 – Jan Tschichold 26. Zapfino 1998 – Hermann Zapf 27.

Letter Gothic 1956 – Roger Roberson 28. Stone 1987 – Summer Stone 29. Arnhem 1998 – Fred Smeijers 30. Minion 1990 – Robert Slimbach 31. Myriad 1992 – Twombly & Slimbach 32. Rotis 1988 – Olt Aicher 33.

Eurostile 1962 – Aldo Novarese 34. Scala 1991 – Martin Majoor 35. Syntax 1968 – Hans Eduard Meier 36. Joanna 1930 – Eric Gill 37.

Fleishmann 1997 – Erhard Kaiser 38. Palatino 1950 – Hermann Zapf 39. Baskerville 1754 – John Baskerville 40.

Fedra 2002 – Peter Bil’ak 41. Gotham 2000 – Tobias Frere-Jones 42. Lexicon 1992 – Bram De Does 43. Hands 1991 – Letterror 44. Metro 1929 – W. Dwiggins 45. Didot 1799 – Firmin Didot 46.

Formata 1984 – Bernd M llenst dt 47. Caslon 1725 – William Caslon 48. Cooper Black 1920 – Oswald B. Peignot 1937 – A. Cassandre 50. Bell Gothic 1938 – Chauncey H.

Griffith 51. Antique Olive 1962 – Roger Excoffon 52.

Wilhelm Klngspor Gotisch 1926 – Rudolf Koch 53. Info 1996 – Erik Spiekermann 54.

Dax 1995 – Hans Reichel 55. Proforma 1988 – Petr van Blokland 56. Today Sans 1988 – Volker K ster 57. Prokyon 2002 – Erhard Kaiser 58.

Trade Gothic 1948 – Jackson Burke 59. Swift 1987 – Gerald Unger 60. Copperplate Gothic 1901 – Frederic W. Blur 1992 – Neville Brody 62. Base 1995 – Zuzana Licko 63.

Bell Centennial 1978 – Matthew Carter 64. News Gothic 1908 – Morris Fuller Benton 65. Avenir 1988 – Adrian Frutiger 66. Bernhard Modern 1937 – Lucian Bernhard 67.

Amplitude 2003 – Christian Schwartz 68. Trixie 1991 – Erik van Blokland 69. Quadraat 1992 – Fred Smeijers 70. Neutraface 2002 – Christian Schwartz 71. Nobel 1929 – Sjoerd de Roos 72. Industria 1990 – Neville Brody 73. Bickham Script 1997 – Richard Lipton 74.

Bank Gothic 1930 – Morris Fuller Benton 75. Corporate ASE 1989 – Kurt Weidemann 76.

Fago 2000 – Ole Schafer 77. Trajan 1989 – Carol Twombly 78. Kabel 1927 – Rudolf Koch 79. House Gothic 23 1995 – Tal Leming 80.

Kosmik 1993 – Letterror 81. Caecilia 1990 – Peter Matthias Noordzij 82. Mrs Eaves 1996 – Zuzana Licko 83.

Corpid 1997 – Lucas de Groot 84. Miller 1997 – Matthew Carter 85. Souvenir 1914 – Morris Fuller Benton 86. Instant Types 1992 – Just van Rossum 87. Clarendon 1845 – Benjamin Fox 88. Triplex 1989 – Zuzana Licko 89. Benguiat 1989 – Ed Benguiat 90.

Zapf Renaissance 1984 – Hermann Zapf 91. Filosofia 1996 – Zuzana Licko 92.

Chalet 1996 – House Industries 93. Quay Sans 1990 – David Quay 94.

C zanne 1995 – Michael Want, James Grieshaber 95. Reporter 1938 – Carlos Winkow 96.

Legacy 1992 – Ronald Arnholm 97. Agenda 1993 – Greg Thompson 98. Bello 2004 – Underware 99. Dalliance 2000 – Frank Heine 100. Mistral 1953 – Roger Excoffon UNLIMITED DOWNLOADS: 400,000+ Fonts & Design Assets All the you need and many other design elements, are available for a monthly subscription by subscribing to. The subscription costs $29 per month and gives you unlimited access to a massive and growing library of 400,000+ items that can be downloaded as often as you need (stock photos too)! Further Resources:.

100 Best Fonts PDF (In German). (Translated via Yahoo). So what other fonts should be included in this? What fonts shouldn’t be in this list? Vent your spleen below. I guess my slight issue with this list is that some of the top typefaces are also criticized for being the most over used, and very “un-designer”-esque. It’s somewhat of an oxymoron listing helvetica as the top font of all time, and in a similar link listing it as the most over used, and in a similar link identifying it as a font that “pseudo” designers use b/c they don’t know better.

It baffles me that so many will praise this font, yet an equal amount of people will bash it. It’s the same case with other faces as well.

Pettiness aside, it’s a solid list; thanks for posting it. Thank you all for your comments and you’re welcome. Laslo, RyanC, Aetoric, “It is also worth noting that this evaluation consisted exclusively of licensed or commercial fonts only.

Free fonts or operating system fonts were not considered, nor were fonts integral to standard software (i.e. Arial, Verdana, etc.). Font variations, which over the centuries have been individually interpreted by various Foundries, were uniquely evaluated as a class and the best variant was entered into the main judging process.”. I started work in the Print industry when we used the term “hot metal”.

I was a Compositor picking up metal letters from a Case and setting them into lines of type in a Typestick. Most memorable typefaces at that time were Helvetica, Times, Gill, Plantin and Palace Script. By the time I had completed my 6 year Apprenticeship, I could recognise and name just about every typeface in existance at that time. We had to, it was one of the important and necessary qualifications of the job. All the best, from a not too old a person, Steve. This list is HIGHLY debateable. Because there are a TON of fonts out there that are made for specific things, such as design elements in any given graphic design, such as Bokonon and Final Lap, but I don’t hear anyone saying anything about those fonts.

This list is EXTREMELY subjective, because it all has to do with what you’re using the typeface for. If it’s for use as copy for the body of a page layout, then yeah, Helvetica, Arial, and so on are good fonts to use, but if you want to use a font as a design element, then you’d need a font that has the right look, if you know what I mean. Ultimately Helvetica is in the first place ’cause is the most used font in the whole world.

Definitely is very practical and clear. Having thousands of fonts to work with, it’s so difficult to say which one is the best (not the most beautiful), but when works comes and comes and the clients ask for changes, is easy to understand why this font is the winner. The clients wants some clear texts and us wants less changes. We (the designers) have other fonts that we will use in our own projects and maybe with some “Art Lover” client. I just completed a survey based on a reasonably large sample of favorite fonts from blogs, websites, sales charts, and a lot independent discussion from blogs and forums.

I tallied all the names and number of references from all these sources and came up with this combined result: All the fonts I found are, of course, on the big German list. But it was cool to see that of the top 10 font for both lists, 7 fonts overlap, but my data was purely based on the opinion of the self-reporting font-loving designers who took the time to post. I would gather that people for whom Comic Sans is their font of choice, they were to embarrassed to admit it online 🙂.

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1K Shares When done right – you tend not to notice great comic book lettering. Meaning it blends seamlessly with the art to make an amazing reading experience. I used to letter all of the various comics that we created back in the mid-late 2000’s. I’d pour a glass of wine (I’m not a wine drinker incidentally), fire up InDesign and get to it. It was a nice reprieve from writing, drawing, packaging, Myspacing and marketing our fledgling boutique.

I wasn’t particularly great – but I was pretty good and lettered around 250 pages in total. Hand Lettering Your Comic Was Sometimes Ulcer Inducing Lettering your comic used to be a nerve-wracking experience. That is when you were talking about dropping in the lettering by hand with a technical pen or a #107 nib. While digital lettering today can still be a frustrating process it’s miles easier than in decades past.

Enter the comic book font. Where the “Comic Book Font” Came From When I was first hunting for free comic fonts to test out in the early 2000’s the pickings were slim. There were only two or three worthy contenders. Since then thousands of free fonts can be found and downloaded online. By sheer numbers, this also means more free quality comic fonts have also surfaced. It just takes longer to find them now.

While I tend to stick with “paid for” Comicraft fonts you should play around with some of the free ones first to get a feel for comic lettering. My goal for you with this post was three-fold.

The fonts had to be free. They had to be able to be used commercially (or at least partially). They had to at least be “almost” as good as a paid commercial font. Properly Stacking Text in a Dialogue Balloon — Nate Piekos (@blambot) Free Comic Lettering Fonts Blambot Comic Fonts Found this via Spider-Man editor: '5 Amateur Lettering Mistakes' by Nate Piekos. #1 my big pet peeve!

Cebulski (@CBCebulski) My first stop was over at comic fonts and lettering. Nate Piekos has been at this for two decades and has lettered comics for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Oni Press, Dark Horse Comics and many others. Nate’s work has been seen EVERYWHERE.

He’s designed a lot of comic fonts and has made several of them free via a for independent comic creation. Anyone can use Blambot free fonts for non-profit projects, excluding Embedding, Redistribution, or Webfont use. If you are an independent/small press comic creator, you may use Blambot free fonts in your comic book project–even if you are making money with your project–even if you use the fonts printed on merch in support of your comic.

(This excludes Embedding, Webfont, and Redistributive use.) This is Blambot’s way of supporting the independent comic community and applies only to indie/small press comic book creators. If your use does not fall into the above scenarios, and you need a Basic or other license, see the License Options page.

Two of the standouts are: Back Issues is a handy comic font to get you started. You can play around with it in captions and word balloons. Badaboom is more of a display font.

It would be useful for sound effects, titles or a loud voice word balloon. But really they’re all great. Other Blambot fonts such as Crime Fighter, Unmasked, and Evil Genius have been around longer than some comic creators have been alive. While you’re over there be sure to read his post on comic. It’s worth the trip. Next up it’s over to 1001fonts.com for two more contenders. Styles: Regular, Bold, Bold Italic Made by “The original plan was to have five 10-font packs which would constitute a complete lettering system for the comic artist, whether professional, independent, amateur, beginner or whoever wants to use the stuff.

The biggest worry for any comic artist in these digital days, when it comes to letters, is what goes inside the speech, narration and thought balloons. I took care of that with Komika Text, which is based on WBX’s Sunday Komix letters. Then there are the titles and the cover type, of course. Those are accommodated with Komika Display and Komika Title, based respectively on WBX’s Komixation and Supermarket Sale letters.

To add variety and flexibility to the superset, 10 more fonts were added in a Hands set, all of which can theoretically be adequate substitutions for the text, display, and title sets, depending on the application. These supposed “alternative” fonts turned out very nice, and in certain respects are even better than the main sets.” Then I stopped. “ Font Squirrel is your best resource for FREE, hand-picked, high-quality, commercial-use fonts. Even if that means, we send you elsewhere to get them.” The had 26 fonts but only two really jumped out at me. You can head over there and decide for yourself.

Is brought to us by Vigilante Typeface Corporation aka who is a tattoo artist, font designer and freelance Illustrator. This one has been around for a while and I remember downloading it back when I was scouring the net for free fonts. “ZITZ is my second cartoon font, based on the hand lettering in the King Features daily strip Zits by Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott.

According to Robert C. Harvey’s thoughtful Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip, “Zits” is a “teenage stripostensibly drawn by Borgman and written by Scott. Borgman produces the final art.” The tall, tight lettering and expressive drawing style of Borgman’s political cartoons has long appealed to me; since 1997, “Zits” has represented a daily dose of his art. The scratchy outlines of the letters reflect both the artist’s pen and the texture of newsprint. (I saved dozens of strips to get a full font.) Contains two versions of each capital letter (in the upper and lowercase positions) for a more random look, plus numbers, punctuation, and accented characters.” My last stop was over to.

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With hundreds of typefaces to choose from – I finally settled on just one for now. Kalam – a free font that comes in 3 weights. “Kalam is a handwriting font family that supports the Devanagari and Latin writing systems. Even though Kalam’s letterforms derive from handwriting, the fonts have each been optimized for text usage on screen. All in all, the typeface is a design that feels very personal.

Like many informal handwriting-style fonts, it appears rather fresh and new when seen on screen or printed on the page. Kalam’s letterforms feature a very steep slant from the top right to the bottom left. They are similar to letters used in everyday handwriting, and look like they might have been written with either a thin felt-tip pen or a ball-point pen. In the Devanagari letterforms, the knotted-terminals are open, but some other counter forms are closed. Features like these strengthen the feeling that text set in this typeface has been written very quickly, in a rapid manner. Lipi Raval and Jonny Pinhorn developed the family for ITF; Raval designed the Devanagari component while she and Pinhorn worked together on the Latin.” Alright – let’s take a brief moment to enjoy this amazing page from Superman Vs.

Muhammad Ali (ALL-NEW COLLECTORS’ EDITION #C-56, 1978), lettered by the legendary Gaspar Saladino. Image © DC Comics.

Have fun with this, and when you’re ready trust me, you’ll probably start buying fonts from Blambot. I always check out the online sales in the summer (week of Comicon) and New Years over Comicraft.

Be sure to add your favorite fonts in the comments below. It’s always nice to grow a bigger list. Comic Lettering and Typography Books For book recommendations covering all areas of the comic industry. Acclaimed artists Mark Chiarello and Todd Klein demystify these essential steps in traditional graphic storytelling. Chiarello explains the entire coloring process, from computer and software choice to creating color effects that give the action its maximum impact. Klein discusses whether to letter by hand or by computer—a hotly debated topic among working letterers—and demonstrates an array of techniques for creating word balloons, fonts, logos, and much more. Step by Step, Comic Book Lettering the Comicraft Way guides readers through the process of lettering a comic strip digitally.

From font design to balloon placement, sound effects, signage, title page and publication design, the creators of The World’s Greatest Comic Book Fonts cover every conceivable aspect of comic book lettering. Lavishly illustrated by examples drawn from Comicraft’s ten years as America’s premier comic book lettering studio, this manual is an essential tool for comic book creators everywhere. In Lessons in Typography, you’ll learn the basics of identifying, choosing, and using typefaces and immediately put that knowledge to work through a collection of exercises designed to deepen and expand your typographic skills. After a crash course in type terminology, you’re encouraged to walk the talk with lessons and exercises on creating type-based logos, crafting personal emblems, choosing and using the right fonts for layouts, designing your own fonts, fine-tuning text like a professional, hand lettering, and more. Creative Lettering and Beyond combines the artistic talents and inspirational tips and tutorials of several professional hand letterers and calligraphers for a dynamic and interactive learning experience.

After a brief introduction to the various tools and materials, artists and lettering enthusiasts will learn how to master the art of hand lettering and typography through engaging, easy-to-follow step-by-step projects, prompts, and exercises. From the basic shape and form of letters, to cursive script, spacing, and alignment, artists will discover how to transform simple words, phrases, and quotes into beautiful works of hand-lettered art.

Will Eisner is one of the twentieth century’s great American artists, a man who pioneered the field of comic arts. Here, in his classic Comics and Sequential Art, he refines the art of graphic storytelling into clear, concise principles that every cartoonist, comic artist, writer, and filmmaker needs to know.

Adapted from Eisner’s landmark course at New York’s School of Visual Arts, Comics and Sequential Art is an essential text filled with invaluable theories and easy-to-use techniques. Eisner reveals here the fundamentals of graphic storytelling. He addresses dialogue, anatomy, framing, and many other important aspects of the art form. Fully updated and revised to reflect current practices and technology, including a section on digital media, this introduction to the art of comics is as valuable a guide as it was when first published.

Further Watching: Videos How CAPTAIN AMERICA Demonstrates BRILLIANT Comic Book Lettering! Lettering is an unsung part of comic books, but a great letterer can impact the story more than you think!

Today, we’re taking a look at Captain America: Steve Rogers #3 to see how the positions of speech balloons and caption boxes are critical to the story! Lettering A Comic Book Page (#Adobe Illustrator) Lettering a Comic Book Page from SK Comic’s Augmented using Adobe Illustrator. Lettering & Ballooning Lettering and ballooning are the easy part! We just need to pick or make our font and jam it onto our page.

Master Penman Jake Weidmann As the world grows increasingly digital, storied art forms like penmanship are quickly dying out. Old masters pass away, leaving behind a gaping void.

Enter Jake Weidmann, the youngest “Master Penman” in the United States by three generations. Weidmann’s work shows an attention to minute detail that only comes through years and years of practice. His finished pieces — which fuse calligraphy and fine art — remind us that handwriting can be beautiful.

Further Reading: No More Klein Overlays Lettering: who does it best and why? Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file. The majority of these points are established tradition, sprinkled with modern trends and a bit of my own opinion having lettered professionally for a few years now. This article is ancient – but it discusses the masters. The images are broken, and I’d love to see this updated, but I felt it was important to include.

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You’ll have to ‘Google Image’ examples of each letterer’s works. Comic Lettering Websites You want a master class in comic book lettering? Then check out the 1st issue of Doom Patrol by the always great Todd Klein!

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