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
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 Galliard (typeface) Garamond Gentium Georgia GNU FreeFont 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 Matrix 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 Noto Serif* (one of the Noto fonts) 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 Stempel Schneidler Stephenson Blake STIX Fonts project (see also XITS font project) Sylfaen Theano Didot Times New Roman Trajan Trinité Trump Mediaeval University of California Old Style and derivatives like Berkeley Old Style and Californian FB Utopia Vera Serif Walbaum Windsor XITS font project
Slab serif
Alexandria American Typewriter Archer Athens Bookman Candida Cholla Slab City Clarendon Concrete Roman Courier (the "typewriter face") Egyptienne Guardian Egyptian Legibility Group Lexia Memphis Nilland Roboto Slab Rockwell and clones like Geometric Slabserif 712 Schadow Serifa Skeleton Antique Tower
Transitional serif
Utopia Times New Roman (and Times) Perpetua and derivatives like Lapidary 333 Plantin and derivatives like Aldine 721 Mrs. Eaves Freight Modernised Old Style
Sans-serif
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 Inter 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) SNV 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
Semi-serif Nyala Rotis Semi Serif EasyReading
Monospace
Andalé Mono Bitstream Vera (Vera Sans Mono) Consolas Courier Courier New Century Schoolbook Monospace DejaVu Sans Mono Droid Sans Mono Everson Mono (also known as Everson Mono Unicode) Fira Mono and Fira Code Fixed Fixedsys HyperFont IBM Plex Mono* Inconsolata Iosevka Letter Gothic Liberation Mono Lucida (font)#Lucida series: Console, Lucida Sans Typewriter Menlo Monaco (one of the original Macintosh system fonts) Monospace MS Gothic MS Mincho Nimbus Mono L OCR-A (Optical Character Recognition) OCR-B PragmataPro Prestige Elite (also known as Prestige, a "typewriter" face that is similar to Courier) ProFont (a freeware font designed for easy readability at small sizes) Roboto Mono SimHei SST Typewriter SimSun Source Code Pro Terminal Ubuntu Mono Vera Sans Mono (Bitstream Vera)
Script
Brush scripts
Balloon Brush Script Choc and derivatives like Staccato 555 Dom Casual Mistral and derivatives like Staccato 222 Papyrus Segoe Script
Calligraphic
American Scribe AMS Euler Apple Chancery Forte French Script ITC Zapf Chancery Kuenstler Script Monotype Corsiva Old English Text MT and clones like Cloister Black Zapfino
Handwriting
Andy Ashley Script Cézanne Choco Cooky Comic Sans MS Comic Neue Dom Casual Freestyle Script Kristen Lucida Handwriting
Other script
Coronet and derivatives like Ribbon 131 Curlz Gravura Script (vector font included with Windows 2.1) Wiesbaden Swing
Blackletter
Bastard Breitkopf Fraktur Fette Fraktur (Fraktur Bold) Fletcher Fraktur Lucida Blackletter Old English Text and clones like Cloister Black Schwabacher Tannenberg Textualis (Textura) Theuerdank Fraktur Wallau
Non-Latin
Aharoni (including Hebrew script)
Arial (Used in English, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages)
Calibri (Greek) Chandas (Devanagari)
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)
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
Nastaliq Navees
Noto Sans Noto Serif Perpetua Greek Porson (Greek) Segoe UI Symbol (Latin, Braille, Coptic and Gothic) Shruti (Gujarati)
SimSun Sylfaen (a multi-script serif font family, for various non-Latin scripts and is for the languages Armenian and Georgian)
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
Wilson Greek
Unicode fonts
This list of more comprehensive 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.)
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; includes over 4,500 glyphs in 2025) 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.)
Last Resort (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 v2.31) Nimbus Sans Global Noto, a family of fonts designed by Google: nearly 64,000 glyphs as of 2018. 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
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
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 Toronto Subway (typeface) Umbra Westminster Willow Windsor
Ethnic fonts
Lithos (Greek) Höfðaletur (Icelandic)
Miscellaneous Compatil Generis Grasset Luxi Sans forgetica (learning aid font)
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 Vox-ATypI classification
References