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Typeface Character A Typeface Character with elegant, flowing strokes might impart a classic, refined atmosphere, while one with bold, geometric shapes could appear modern and dynamic. In design, choosing a typeface isn’t just about legibility—it’s about selecting a visual voice that aligns with the message and mood you want to impart.
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A Typeface Character is an individual glyph—the specific representation of a letter, number, punctuation mark, or symbol within a typeface. Each glyph is crafted with a unique shape and detail that distinguishes it from its counterparts in other typefaces. When you look at an “A” or a “B” in Times New Roman versus Helvetica, you see that even though they represent the same letter, their design details—how the lines curve, the thickness of the strokes, or the angle of serifs—set them apart.

This “Typeface Character” is the outcome of consistent design choices: the weight, contrast, spacing, and subtle quirks embedded into each glyph. These factors contribute to an emotional or visual identity.

Serif List of typefaces

  • Adobe Jenson
  • Albertus
  • Aldus
  • Algerian
  • Amelia (Designed in 1963 by Stan Davis)
  • American Typewriter
  • Antiqua
  • Arno*
  • Aster
  • Aurora and derivatives like News 706
  • Baskerville
  • Bell (Didone classification serif type designed by Richard Austin, 1788)
  • Belwe Roman
  • Bembo and derivatives like Aldine 401
  • Bernhard Modern
  • Bodoni (typeface family)
  • Bauer Bodoni
  • Bitstream Charter
  • Bookman
  • Bulmer
  • Caledonia
  • Calisto MT
  • Cambria
  • Capitals
  • Cartier
  • Caslon
  • Wyld
  • Caslon Antique / Fifteenth Century
  • Centaur
  • Century type family
  • Charis SIL
  • Cheltenham and derivatives like Gloucester
  • Clearface
  • Cloister Black
  • Cochin and derivatives like Engravers’ Oldstyle 205
  • Computer Modern
  • Concrete Roman
  • Constantia
  • Cooper Black
  • Copperplate Gothic
  • DejaVu Serif
  • Didone (typeface classification)
  • Didot
  • Droid Serif
  • Emerson
  • Fairfield
  • Fat face
  • FF Scala
  • Fixedsys
  • Footlight
  • Friz Quadrata
  • Garamond
  • Gentium
  • Georgia
  • GNU FreeFont
  • Google logo
  • Goudy Old Style / Goudy
  • Granjon
  • Hermann Zapf
  • Hightower Text
  • Hoefler Text
  • IBM Plex Serif*
  • Imprint
  • ITC Benguiat
  • Janson
  • Jokerman
  • Joanna
  • Korinna
  • Legibility Group
  • Lexicon
  • Liberation Serif
  • Linux Libertine
  • Literaturnaya
  • Lucida Bright*
  • Ludwig & Mayer
  • Memphis
  • Miller
  • Minion*
  • “Modern”: see Didone
  • Mrs Eaves*
  • MS Serif
  • Melior and derivatives like Zapf Elliptical 711
  • New York (one of the original Macintosh system fonts)
  • Nimbus Roman No. 9 L
  • NPS Rawlinson Roadway
  • Palatino (and imitations such Book Antiqua, Sistina and Zapf Calligraphic 801)
  • Perpetua and derivatives like Lapidary 333
  • Plantin and derivatives like Aldine 721
  • PT Fonts
  • Requiem
  • Rotis*
  • Rudolph Ruzicka
  • Sabon
  • Source Serif
  • Souvenir
  • Stephenson Blake
  • STIX Fonts project (see also XITS font project)
  • Sylfaen
  • Theano Didot
  • Trajan
  • Trinité
  • Trump Mediaeval
  • University of California Old Style and derivatives like Berkeley Old Style and Californian FB
  • Utopia
  • Vera Serif
  • Walbaum
  • Weiss Antiqua
  • Windsor
  • XITS font project

Sans-serif List of typefaces

  • Agency FB
  • Akzidenz-Grotesk and derivatives like Gothic 725
  • Andalé Sans
  • Antique Olive and derivatives like Incised 901
  • Aptos
  • Archivo
  • 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 1451
  • Dotum
  • Droid Sans
  • Dyslexie (designed to mitigate some of the issues that dyslexics experience when reading)
  • Ecofont
  • Eras
  • Esseltub
  • Espy Sans
  • Eurocrat
  • Eurostile and derivatives like Square 721
  • FF Dax
  • FF Meta*
  • FF Scala Sans
  • Fira Sans and variants
  • Folio
  • Franklin Gothic*
  • FreeSans
  • Frutiger and derivatives like Humanist 777
  • Futura
  • Geneva (one of the original Macintosh system fonts)
  • Gill Sans*
  • Gill Sans Schoolbook
  • and clones like Humanist 521
  • Gotham*
  • Grand Slang
  • Haettenschweiler
  • Handel Gothic
  • Hei
  • Helvetica and derivatives like Helvetica Neue and Swiss 721
  • Highway Gothic
  • IBM Plex Sans*
  • Impact
  • Industria
  • Interstate
  • Johnston/New Johnston
  • Kabel and clones like Geometric 231
  • Klavika
  • Lato
  • Liberation Sans
  • Linux Biolinum
  • Lucida* and variants
  • Lydian
  • Meiryo
  • Meta
  • Microgramma
  • 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
  • Zapf Humanist 601
  • 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 (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
  • SST*
  • Sweden Sans
  • Syntax
  • System (Windows 3.x default)
  • Tahoma
  • Template Gothic
  • Thesis Sans*
  • Tiresias
  • Toronto Subway (typeface)
  • Trade Gothic
  • Transport (used on British road signs)
  • Trebuchet MS
  • Twentieth Century (Tw Cen MT)
  • Ubuntu
  • Unica
  • Univers
  • Zurich
  • VAG Rounded
  • Vera Sans
  • Verdana

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A Typeface Character with elegant, flowing strokes might impart a classic, refined atmosphere, while one with bold, geometric shapes could appear modern and dynamic. In design, choosing a typeface isn’t just about legibility—it’s about selecting a visual voice that aligns with the message and mood you want to impart. View article at Typeface Character