Typefaces

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  Helvetica

  Helvetica is the name of a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger

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  Pros: always a safe bet. easy to read and works well with many design styles. Cons: utterly non-distinctive
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  Futura

  Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed between 1924 and 1926 by Paul Renner. It is based on geometric shapes that became representative visual elements of the Bauhaus design style ...

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  Pros: it does the jog similar to Helvetica. Cons: There are more modern faces that you should look for.
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  Garamond

  Garamond is the name given to a group of old style serif typefaces named for the punch-cutter Claude Garamond (c. 1480-1561). A majority of the typefaces named Garamond are more ...

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  Pros: What can be wrong with Garamond? This is one of the best serif typefaces (Yes, I'm partial because it's one of my favorites). Clean and simple. Comes in ...
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  Avenir

  Avenir is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988, and released by Mergenthaler Linotype Company. The typeface is now licensed by Monotype Imaging.
  
  The name Avenir is ...

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  Pros: It is very clean and nice font. Cons: No Cyrillic or Greek typeface.
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  Calibri

  Calibri is a humanist sans-serif typeface family under the Microsoft ClearType Font Collection.
  
  In Microsoft Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface in Word and replaced ...

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  Century Gothic

  Century Gothic is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed for Monotype Imaging in 1991. Century Gothic takes inspiration from Sol Hess's Twentieth Century, which was drawn between 1937 and 1947 ...

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  Pros: slightly cleaner than futura. Cons: this futura clone has less character than futura. roughly speaking, ...
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  Lucida Grande

  Lucida Grande is a humanist sans-serif typeface included with the Mac OS X operating system. It is a member of the Lucida family of typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and ...

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  Pros: Great web font... easy to read, somewhere in between fun and professional. It can be seen in action on mattgattis.com
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  Didot

  Didot is a name given to a group of typefaces named after the famous French printing and type producing family. The classification is known as modern, or Didone. The typeface ...

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  Pros: Pretty stylish, but not too fancy, and good looking font for headings and logos. Cons: Too "old-styled" and "selfish" — it would fit with a ...
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  Palatino

  Palatino is the name of a large typeface family that began as an old style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf initially released in 1948 by the Linotype foundry.
  
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  Cons: Looks dated and used a lot in the medical and pharma communications.
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  FS Albert

  FS Albert typeface from Fontsmith was released as a typeface family in 2002. A curvaceous type design that reflects a friendly approach in it's use. The font, FS Albert ...

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  Pros: Clean design. Cons: Not free.

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