Category: Typography

Avant Garde Gothic is a geometirc sans typeface based on the logo font used in the Avant Garde magazine. Herb Lubalin devised the logo concept and...

German type designer Hermann Zapf designed Optima, his most successful typeface. The design was inspired from the letters on the floor of the Santa Croce church...

Gill Sans is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by the English sculptor, type designer Eric Gill. The typeface takes inspiration from Edward Johnston’s Johnston typeface...

In the 1970s, the newly built Charles de Gaulle Airport at Roissy in France needed a new directional sign system. The Swiss typefce designer Adrian Frutiger...

Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly designed the Myriad for Adobe Systems. The humanist sans serif is best known for its usage by Apple Inc., replacing Apple...

Univers is one of the best typefaces designed by Adrian Frutiger. Like Helvetica, Univers is based on the model of the 1898 typeface Akzidenz-Grotesk. It was...

Gotham is a geometric sans-serif digital typeface designed by American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones in 2000. The letterforms are inspired by architectural signages that achieved popularity...

Designed in 1927 by German type designer Paul Renner, Futura is a geometric sans serif based on geometric shapes that became representative of visual elements of...

Developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger together with Eduard Hoffmann, Helvetica is the most widely used sans-serif typeface in the world and you will see it dozens...

Avenir is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger, who is best known for creating famous fonts like Univers and Frutiger, though...

The Italian type designer Aldo Novarese designed the square sans serif, Eurostile in 1962 for Nebiolo type foundry. The original typeface only came up with uppercase...