100 Best Commercial Fonts Ever Made (1 cd)

100 Best Commercial Fonts Ever Made (1 cd)

The 100 all time Best Fonts since Gutenberg, as selected by their users and an inteational jury including Veronika Elsner of ElsnerFlake Typography, and more... The fonts were rated on three categories; FontShop Sales Figures, Historical Value/Meaning, and Aesthetic Qualities.


FontShop presents: The 100 all time Best Fonts since Guteberg, as selected by their users and an inteational jury.

How we rated the fonts:
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The review of immeasurable qualities is tricky. How does one measure aesthetic quality, the benefit of an item, its value to humanity? How does one determine a list of the best fonts of all time? We tried to do this by using on objective and two subjective measurement patters weighted as follows:

FontShop Sales Figures: 40
Historical Value/Meaning: 30
Aesthetic Qualities: 30

The evaluation consisted exclusively of licensed or mercial. fonts. Free fonts or operating system fonts were not considered, nor were fonts integral to standard software (i.e. Arial, Verdana, etc.). Font variations, which over the centuries have been individually interpreted by various Foundries, were uniquely evaluated as a class and the best variant was entered into the main judging process.


The Judges:
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Roger Black (Danilo Black, Inc., USA)
With David Berlow, design consultant Roger Black founded Font Bureau in Boston in 1989. Later, Roger was Chief Creative Officer of Circle and is now Danilo Black. Being an early adopter of the Inteet has never stopped developing and redesigning magazines and newspapers. Personal top Ten:

1. Centaur
2. Egiziano
3. Big Caslon
4. Bureau Grotesque
5. Bembo
6. Bulmer
7. Ionic No. 5
8. Kennerly
9. Clarendon
10. Parkinson

Stephen Coles (Typographica, USA)
Stephen .Stewf. Coles is editor of the online typography joual Typographica where he writes about design and new font releases and moderates the rantings of hundreds of ravenous type freaks. Personal top Ten:

1. Amplitude
2. FF Scala
3. Thesis
4. Minion
5. Georgia / Verdana
6. Knockout
7. Bickham Script
8. Klavika
9. Interstate
10. Helvetica

Jan Middendorp (Publizist, Berlin)
Jan was also the editor of Druk, a magazine about type and visual culture, and he edited and designed for FontShop. After Druk fused with two other FontShop publications into a new magazine called "96", Jan became one of the editors of that publication. In the past, Jan has edited magazines about theatre and dance, as well as newsletters for banks, and insurance companies. Personal top Ten:

1. Ruse
2. PMN Caecilia
3. Tyfa
4. FF Quadraat
5. FF Kievit
6. FF Strada
7. FF Cocon
8. Dispatch / Stainless
9. Rumba
10. The Shire Types

Veronika Elsner (Elsner + Flake, Hamburg)
In March 1986 Veronika Elsner and GШnther Flake founded their company Elsner+Flake Design Studios after ten years of freelance experience in the field of type design, typography, and digitizing of fonts and logos. The company, located in Hamburg, Germany, has created an impressive library of more than 2500 digital fonts. Personal top Ten:

1. Frutiger
2. Zapf Renaissance
3. Swift
4. Today
5. Petras Script
6. Syntax
7. ITC Stone
8. Imago
9. Formata
10. Lucidia

Ralf Herrmann (TypoForum, Weimar)
Ralf Herrmann studies Communication Design at Bauhaus University Weimar. He is the webmaster of typografie.info, the well known independent web site dedicated to typography and fonts in Germany. Herrmann is founder of a web design agency in Germany, writes books about fonts and typography and is advisor of FontShop Berlin. Personal top Ten:

1. FS Clerkenwell
2. FF Strada
3. DTL Prokyon
4. TrinitК
5. Syntax
6. Andulka
7. Fromata
8. Fedra Sans
9. CanapК
10. LTR Salmiak

Bertram Schmid Friderichs (Type Directors Club, Mainz)
For the past 20 years, Bertram Schmidt Friderichs, typographer, printer and publisher, managed the Type Directors Club Exhibition in Germany with great enthusiasm and success. In his print shop, he has manufactured together with his wife Karin about 25 titles on typography and graphic design every year, many of them inteationally rewarded, founding his reputation to be the leading publishing house in this field in Germany. Personal top Ten:

1. Bodoni
2. Frutiger
3. Caslon
4. Garamond
5. Univers
6. DTL Prokyon
7. Gill Sans
8. Syntax
9. Clarendon
10. Zentenar Fraktur

Claudia Guminski (FontShop, Berlin), Marketing und Redaktion)
Claudia Guminski is a member of the editorial and marketing team for FontShop. She has been developing new font hit lists daily for the last nine years. She has the help of a source thats unique in the type universe the knowledge of her brilliant colleagues at Font Shop. Personal top:
1. FF Magda Clean
2. FF Absara
3. Neutraface
4. FF Dax
5. Mrs Eaves
6. FF Profile
7. Thesis
8. FF Nexus
9. Ed Interlock
10. Dispatch


And now the list:
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Rank Font Name [Date Designed Designed By]

1. Helvetica [1957 Max Miedinger]
2. Garamond [1530 Claude Garamond]
3. Frutiger [1977 Adrian Frutiger]
4. Bodoni [1970 Giambattista Bodoni]
5. Futura [1927 Paul Renner]
6. Times [1931 Stanley Morison]
7. Akzidenz Grotesk [1966 GШnter Gerhard Lange]
8. Officina [1990 Erik Spiekermann]
9. Gill Sans [1930 Eric Gill]
10. Univers [1954 Adrian Frutiger]
11. Optima [1954 Hermann Zapf]
12. Franklin Gothic [1903 Morris Fuller Benton]
13. Bembo [1496 Francesco Griffo]
14. Interstate [1993 Tobias Frere Jones]
15. Thesis [1994 Lucas de Groot]
16. Rockwell [1934 Frank H. Pierpont]
17. Walbaum [1800 Justus Walbaum]
18. Meta [1991 Erik Spiekermann]
19. TrinitК [1982 Bram De Does]
20. Din [1926 Ludwig Goller]
21. Matrix [1986 Zuzana Licko]
22. OCR [1965 American Type Founders]
23. Avant Garde [1968 Herb Lubalin]
24. Lucida [1985 Chris Holmes / Charles Bigelow]
25. Sabon [1964 Jan Tschichold]
26. Zapfino [1998 Hermann Zapf]
27. Letter Gothic [1956 Roger Roberson]
28. Stone [1987 Summer Stone]
29. Ahem [1998 Fred Smeijers]
30. Minion [1990 Robert Slimbach]
31. Myriad [1992 Twombly Slimbach]
32. Rotis [1988 Olt Aicher]
33. Eurostile [1962 Aldo Novarese]
34. Scala [1991 Martin Majoor]
35. Syntax [1968 Hans Eduard Meier]
36. Joanna [1930 Eric Gill]
37. Fleishmann [1997 Erhard Kaiser]
38. Palatino [1950 Hermann Zapf]
39. Baskerville [1754 John Baskerville]
40. Fedra [2002 Peter Bilak]
41. Gotham [2000 Tobias Frere Jones]
42. Lexicon [1992 Bram De Does]
43. Hands [1991 Letterror]
44. Metro [1929 W. A. Dwiggins]
45. Didot [1799 Firmin Didot]
46. Formata [1984 Bed MГllenstДdt]
47. Caslon [1725 William Caslon]
48. Cooper Black [1920 Oswald B. Cooper]
49. Peignot [1937 A. M. Cassandre]
50. Bell Gothic [1938 Chauncey H. Griffith]
51. Antique Olive [1962 Roger Excoffon]
52. Wilhelm Klngspor Gotisch [1926 Rudolf Koch]
53. Info [1996 Erik Spiekermann]
54. Dax [1995 Hans Reichel]
55. Proforma [1988 Petr van Blokland]
56. Today Sans [1988 Volker KШster]
57. Prokyon [2002 Erhard Kaiser]
58. Trade Gothic [1948 Jackson Burke]
59. Swift [1987 Gerald Unger]
60. Copperplate Gothic [1901 Frederic W. Goudy]
61. Blur [1992 Neville Brody]
62. Base [1995 Zuzana Licko]
63. Bell Centennial [1978 Matthew Carter]
64. News Gothic [1908 Morris Fuller Benton]
65. Avenir [1988 Adrian Frutiger]
66. Behard Mode [1937 Lucian Behard]
67. Amplitude [2003 Christian Schwartz]
68. Trixie [1991 Erik van Blokland]
69. Quadraat [1992 Fred Smeijers]
70. Neutraface [2002 Christian Schwartz]
71. Nobel [1929 Sjoerd de Roos]
72. Industria [1990 Neville Brody]
73. Bickham Script [1997 Richard Lipton]
74. Bank Gothic [1930 Morris Fuller Benton]
75. Corporate ASE [1989 Kurt Weidemann]
76. Fago [2000 Ole Schafer]
77. Trajan [1989 Carol Twombly]
78. Kabel [1927 Rudolf Koch]
79. House Gothic 23 [1995 Tal Leming]
80. Kosmik [1993 Letterror]
81. Caecilia [1990 Peter Matthias Noordzij]
82. Mrs Eaves [1996 Zuzana Licko]
83. Corpid [1997 Lucas de Groot]
84. Miller [1997 Matthew Carter]
85. Souvenir [1914 Morris Fuller Benton]
86. Instant Types [1992 Just van Rossum]
87. Clarendon [1845 Benjamin Fox]
88. Triplex [1989 Zuzana Licko]
89. Benguiat [1989 Ed Benguiat]
90. Zapf Renaissance [1984 Hermann Zapf]
91. Filosofia [1996 Zuzana Licko]
92. Chalet [1996 House Industries]
93. Quay Sans [1990 David Quay]
94. CКzanne [1995 Michael Want, James Grieshaber]
95. Reporter [1938 Carlos Winkow]
96. Legacy [1992 Ronald Aholm]
97. Agenda [1993 Greg Thompson]
98. Bello [2004 Underware]
99. Dalliance [2000 Frank Heine]
100. Mistral [1953 Roger Excoffon]

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