Looking ahead to 2025
Let’s start with what we all want to know: the fonts. This year, you craved dependability, versatility, and, of course, quality. We’ve broken it down into three categories:
- The reliable sans – Everyday sans-serif fonts that offer excellent legibility, a wide range of language options, and a healthy dose of personality.
- The majestic serif – Beautiful serif fonts, some ideal for display, others perfect for text, and some versatile enough for both.
- The wild card – These fonts are a little “wilder” than what you typically choose, yet you always find yourself looking for something extra.
The reliable sans
- Antenna. Seven weights. Four widths. Matching italics. Antenna adds that perfect balance of modernity and professionalism.
- Nitti Grotesk: Seven text weights and matching italics. Plus, five display weights. This typeface is your go-to for versatility, whether you’re creating a website, publication, or brand identity.
- Proxima Nova bridges the gap between typefaces like Futura and Akzidenz Grotesk. This hybrid typeface has become the web font of choice, seen across thousands of sites worldwide. Proxima Nova just clicks.
- Freight Sans is warm, formal, and authoritative. A typeface that balances organic curves with geometric precision, making it perfect for both text and display. Whether you’re setting it in tiny text or massive headings, Freight Sans always stands strong.
- Myriad Pro, an Adobe Originals design first released in 1992. The full Myriad Pro family includes condensed, normal, and extended widths in a full range of weights. Designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly with help from Fred Brady and Christopher Slye, Myriad has a warmth and readability that result from the humanistic treatment of letter proportions and design detail.
The majestic serif
- Bennet Three widths, three perfect fits. Regular, condensed, extra condensed, ideal for newspaper and magazine headlines that demand precision. But it doesn’t stop there, Bennet text brings a beautiful reading experience with screen-friendly legibility.
- IvyPresto is an Old Style (or Garalde) display family inspired by the works of Hendrik van den Keere. With its large x-height, delicate serifs, and narrow proportions, IvyPresto is the perfect choice for display use.
- IvyMode’s diamond-shaped dots and punctuation, pronounced contrast, extended cuts, and slightly angled stress give this face the crispness of freshly ironed linens.
- Miller’s popularity with newspapers led to the additional of narrower custom headline styles for papers like the Boston Globe, produced by Matthew Carter and Cyrus Highsmith as Miller Headline.
- Williams Caslon was drawn by William Berkson to bring this comfortably readable classic into the 21st century, capturing in digital form the warm, lively, dark, and open look at the heart of this perennial favorite.
The wild card
- Field Gothic is an eight-weight, eight-width journey through the history of American and European senses, from New York City to Dublin. Overall, the look is crisp and on the cool side, with slightly superelliptical curves. The lightest weights are almost monoline.
- Agenda One is a remaster of Agenda and benefits from extensive fine-tuning of those original glyphs and the spaces between them. A much larger glyph set, additional styles, and numerous new features further enhance the usefulness of Agenda One.
- Loos is a modern closed sans serif typeface with an impressive number of styles, from Compressed to Extended and from Thin to Black. Beyond Latin and Cyrillic, Loos typeface supports Georgian script. And it comes with the inktraps that actually trap the ink.
- Input Mono finds inspiration in early computer consoles but looks towards a typographically rich future, where coding environments overcome technical limitations and allow you to have full control over your display.
- Parry Grotesque and Parry have proven to be extremely versatile typefaces. Coming in regular and condensed widths, it is a comfortable and reliable choice for a wide range of applications. From corporate identities to subtitle book typography, from magazines to billboard-sized advertising campaigns.
Typeface of the year
The Ivy Foundry, founded in 2016 by Jan Maack, is a small independent type foundry based in Denmark.
The best and brightest
We’ve seen fresh faces, bold innovations, new designs, and new possibilities. In 2024, some incredible foundries joined TN, each one bringing its own magic. Here are some of the standout foundries that joined TN in 2024.
The latest and greatest
In 2024, we welcomed thousands of new fonts. It’s time to shuffle those favorites and try something fresh.
- RL Wit is a serif typeface for display. It features delicate details and weights from Hairline to Bold, combining historical charm with contemporary functionality.
- Coin comprises 18 fonts and two variable fonts, representing a contemporary approach to typography.
- Thonglor Soi 4 Nr is a contemporary looped Thai typeface. It has been re-scaled along with updating drawings to optimize the typeface for usage on screens.
- Modernica is a Grotesque sans serif type family including roman and oblique styles in 9 weights.
- Exact honors the old days of kerning with an X-Acto knife.
Top of the class
It’s been a year of discovering and rediscovering amazing typefaces. You couldn’t get enough of these talented designers, returning to their fonts again and again.
Richard Lipton has been designing letterforms for more than 40 years. His background as a professional calligrapher has always guided his work as a type designer. Despite the somewhat strict parameters within the discipline of type design, he feels there are no creative limits to the craft of letter-making.
Joshua Darden would be one of the smartest and most interesting people you’d ever met—if you ever met him. Though he has received much critical acclaim, he’s been variously called, “a silent hunter,” “a hermit,” and “mythic.” He founded this studio in 2004, establishing a strong brand of critically acclaimed retail font families.
Self-taught type designer Jan Maack has worked as an art director, graphic designer, and Illustrator since 1989. In 2007 he released his first typeface. “My goal as a designer is to make fonts that fit the needs of other designers.”
Calligrapher Richard Lipton develops original typefaces as well as custom fonts for international clients.
Originally drawn in 2005 and expanded several times, the Freight superfamily of typefaces is renowned for its historical innovation and ongoing popularity.
The Ivy Foundry, founded in 2016 by Jan Maack, is a small independent type foundry based in Denmark.