2024 has been a great year for type design. Over the past few years geometric sans have been less apparent, with cursive and serifs having something of a renaissance; that trend continued this year.
There’s been a very clear fashion for French design. Experimental fonts are more usable than ever.
Here — in no particular order — are our picks for the 30 best typefaces of 2024. Enjoy!
Euchre is a straightforward sans-serif font crafted for readability in running text. With balanced proportions and an open structure to leads the eye, it offers various features, including small caps, a condensed style, and a versatile variable font option.
Raconteurs is a delightful script font. Its elegant loops and curves create each letter with a single flowing stroke. Imagine a ribbon cascading onto a page and transforming into beautiful letters — this is the charm of Raconteurs.
Gonzaga is a lively and modern slab serif font featuring clean, contemporary lines and dynamic rhythms. Its vibrant energy makes it an excellent choice for designing logos, creating posters, or eye-catching hero text.
TT Commons™ Pro builds upon the excellence of TT Commons, offering five distinct subfamilies: Normal, Condensed, Compact, Expanded, and Mono. Each features 11 weights with matching italics. Additionally, two variable fonts enhance versatility, providing rich typographic options.
Arsen belongs to the Elzevir genre, an Old Style design rooted in French type design. It offers four optical sizes: Text, Normal, Affiche, and Display. It emphasizes excellent word spacing for a refined and balanced reading experience.
Paradisian Serif is a bold, all-caps serif font designed for branding and headline use. Featuring delightful ligatures and alternates, it offers diverse creative options for experimenting with text layouts and word shapes, making it ideal for eye-catching designs.
Anathera is a striking, minimalist font with unique pixelated diagonal strokes. At large sizes, its pixelation feels bold and edgy, while smaller sizes create the illusion of motion in the text. It’s perfect for projects aiming to grab attention and leave an impression.
Motorik is a modernist sans serif in the neo-grotesque style, offering a fresh take on mid-20th-century design ideas. Unlike traditional sans serifs of the actual era, Motorik is optimized for digital use, benefiting from decades of typographic advancements.
Thermal is a modern serif typeface designed as a variable font with weight and optical size axes. True to its name, it offers a warm, inviting feel. Its readability suits extended text, while its bold character excels at display sizes.
Unigeo is a geometric sans-serif font inspired by 1980s aesthetics, evoking the vibe of retro VHS packaging or vintage computer magazines. It offers five variable font styles, with the 128 version a stand out.
Kessler is available in Text, Display, and Super Display styles, offering an elegant serif design with balanced contrast and understated serifs. It includes multiple weights, matching italics, and even a monospaced version, making it a versatile choice for UI and other design needs.
Franziska is a bold and versatile serif font influenced by various design traditions, giving it a unique identity. Ideal for body text, it also shines as a display typeface when you increase the weight and tighten the spacing. A variable font option is available.
Octave is a serif font inspired by French Old Style designs. It includes unique musical symbols and emojis, making it perfect for music-related texts. With open counters and a consistent rhythm, it’s easy to read and an excellent alternative to boring old Times.
Periodica is an elegant transitional serif featuring soft, curved brackets that add a subtle warmth to its letterforms. Ideal for lengthy text blocks, it excels at business communication designs.
De Britges is a bold brush script inspired by vintage music posters. Its alternate characters and ligatures bring a hand-lettered vibe to your work. The numerals, in particular, stand out as a highlight.
Gravita is a confident typeface that merges timeless elegance with modern flair. Its design evokes trust and decisiveness, making it an excellent choice for anyone aiming to inspire confidence. It would have been a great election campaign font.
Racina is a high-contrast sans-serif typeface featuring flared strokes that give it a warm and inviting character. Its design is inspired by the natural beauty of Sicily’s landscape.
Mansel is a unique sans-serif font with high contrast, giving it a ribbon-like quality in extended text. It offers seven weights, ranging from Light to Heavy, each accompanied by matching italics, making it versatile for numerous design projects.
Chopin is a geometric sans-serif font inspired by vintage book covers and posters. Its mix of wide and narrow characters creates a lively, distinct flow in text. It’s perfect for branding, logo design, or display text.
Miura is a versatile font family offering a wide range of widths, weights, and italics. Its squarish letterforms are softened with rounded edges, creating a professional yet approachable style. This makes it particularly suitable for corporate branding.
Fixo is a uniwidth typeface, meaning every character maintains the same width across all weights. This makes it an excellent option for creating hierarchical designs in user interfaces while avoiding the rigid appearance of monospaced fonts.
SFT Schrifted Serif is an elegant typeface featuring refined details and smooth curves. Drawing inspiration from Stockholm’s Gamla Stan and Södermalm districts, it offers three optical sizes: Text for body copy, Display for headings, and Subhead for smaller headings.
TT Travels Text is a fresh adaptation of the popular TT Travels typeface, designed with text in mind. Its wide, geometric sans serif style features subtly squared oval forms, making it a highly flexible choice for applications ranging from body text to branding.
Agna draws inspiration from 18th-century French typography, featuring elegant curves and crisp details. It offers four optical sizes: Text, Subhead, Headline, and Display. Each size comes in seven weights, ranging from Extralight to Black, along with corresponding italic versions.
Frida Mono blends humanist touches with geometric design, creating a unique monospaced font. Its sharp, distinctive details differentiate it from traditional typewriter-style fonts, making it a great option for UI elements that demand a modern, refined aesthetic.
Honesta is a grotesque typeface with a calligraphic influence. Its striking contrast between stems and curves, especially in the heavier weights, makes it both elegant and eye-catching.
Protest Grotesk is a retro-feeling grotesque typeface, influenced by early 20th-century constructed lettering. It includes weights from Thin to Black with matching italics and there’s a variable font available.
ADB Detach is a standout stencil font that grabs attention with its sharp corners and bold contrasts. What sets it apart are its expressive swashes, which add a brush script-like quality to its design, offering a creative twist to the classic stencil style.
Hour is an experimental variable font with two axes that produce a striking 3D effect. Both axes manipulate the size of the dots forming each letter, altering contrast and light angle. It’s practically begging to be animated.
Super Massive is a striking all-caps display typeface that prioritizes boldness and strong visual impact. It comes in three styles: i, ii, and iii, that begin with a bold design and increase in weight and intensity.
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