FontShop presents: The 100 all time Best Fonts since Guternberg, as selected by their users and an international

jury. How we rated the fonts: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The review of immeasurable qualities is tricky. How does one measure aesthetic q uality, 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 a nd 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 commercial fonts. Free fonts or operating system fonts were not considered, nor were fonts integral to standa rd software (i.e. Arial, Verdana, etc.). Font variations, which over the centuri es have been individually interpreted by various Foundries, were uniquely evalua ted as a class and the best variant was entered into the main judging process. The Judges: ~~~~~~~~~~~ Roger Black (Danilo Black, Inc., USA) With David Berlow, design consultant Roger Black founded Font Bureau in Boston i n 1989. Later, Roger was Chief Creative Officer of Circle.com and is now Danilo Black. Being an early adopter of the Internet has never stopped developing and r edesigning magazines and newspapers. Personal top Ten: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Centaur Egiziano Big Caslon Bureau Grotesque Bembo Bulmer Ionic No. 5 Kennerly Clarendon Parkinson

Stephen Coles (Typographica, USA) Stephen Stewf Coles is editor of the online typography journal Typographica where he writes about design and new font releases and moderates the rantings of hundr eds of ravenous type freaks. Personal top Ten: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Amplitude FF Scala Thesis Minion Georgia / Verdana Knockout Bickham Script Klavika Interstate Helvetica

Jan Middendorp (Publizist, Berlin) Jan was also the editor of Druk, a magazine about type and visual culture, and h

e edited and designed for FontShop. After Druk fused with two other FontShop pub lications 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. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Ruse PMN Caecilia Tyfa FF Quadraat FF Kievit FF Strada FF Cocon Dispatch / Stainless Rumba The Shire Types their company Elsner+Flake in the field of type des company, located in Hamb than 2500 digital fonts.

Veronika Elsner (Elsner + Flake, Hamburg) In March 1986 Veronika Elsner and Gnther Flake founded Design Studios after ten years of freelance experience ign, typography, and digitizing of fonts and logos. The urg, Germany, has created an impressive library of more Personal top Ten: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Frutiger Zapf Renaissance Swift Today Petras Script Syntax ITC Stone Imago Formata Lucidia

Ralf Herrmann (TypoForum, Weimar) Ralf Herrmann studies Communication Design at Bauhaus-University Weimar. He is t he webmaster of www.typografie.info, the well-known independent web site dedicat ed to typography and fonts in Germany. Herrmann is founder of a web design agenc y in Germany, writes books about fonts and typography and is advisor of FontShop Berlin. Personal top Ten: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. FS Clerkenwell FF Strada DTL Prokyon Trinit Syntax Andulka Fromata Fedra Sans Canap LTR Salmiak

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

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Bodoni Frutiger Caslon Garamond Univers DTL Prokyon Gill Sans Syntax Clarendon Zentenar Fraktur

Claudia Guminski (FontShop, Berlin), Marketing und Redaktion) Claudia Guminski is a member of the editorial and marketing team for FontShop. S he has been developing new font hit lists daily for the last nine years. She has the help of a source that's 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: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rank | Font Name | [Date Designed - Designed By] 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. Helvetica [1957 - Max Miedinger] Garamond [1530 - Claude Garamond] Frutiger [1977 - Adrian Frutiger] Bodoni [1970 - Giambattista Bodoni] Futura [1927 - Paul Renner] Times [1931 - Stanley Morison] Akzidenz Grotesk [1966 - Gnter Gerhard Lange] Officina [1990 - Erik Spiekermann] Gill Sans [1930 - Eric Gill] Univers [1954 - Adrian Frutiger] Optima [1954 - Hermann Zapf] Franklin Gothic [1903 - Morris Fuller Benton] Bembo [1496 - Francesco Griffo] Interstate [1993 - Tobias Frere-Jones] Thesis [1994 - Lucas de Groot] Rockwell [1934 - Frank H. Pierpont] Walbaum [1800 - Justus Walbaum] Meta [1991 - Erik Spiekermann] Trinit [1982 - Bram De Does] Din [1926 - Ludwig Goller] Matrix [1986 - Zuzana Licko] OCR [1965 - American Type Founders] Avant Garde [1968 - Herb Lubalin] Lucida [1985 - Chris Holmes / Charles Bigelow] Sabon [1964 - Jan Tschichold] Zapfino [1998 - Hermann Zapf] Letter Gothic [1956 - Roger Roberson]

28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87.

Stone [1987 - Summer Stone] Arnhem [1998 - Fred Smeijers] Minion [1990 - Robert Slimbach] Myriad [1992 - Twombly & Slimbach] Rotis [1988 - Olt Aicher] Eurostile [1962 - Aldo Novarese] Scala [1991 - Martin Majoor] Syntax [1968 - Hans Eduard Meier] Joanna [1930 - Eric Gill] Fleishmann [1997 - Erhard Kaiser] Palatino [1950 - Hermann Zapf] Baskerville [1754 - John Baskerville] Fedra [2002 - Peter Bil'ak] Gotham [2000 - Tobias Frere-Jones] Lexicon [1992 - Bram De Does] Hands [1991 - Letterror] Metro [1929 - W. A. Dwiggins] Didot [1799 - Firmin Didot] Formata [1984 - Bernd Mllenstdt] Caslon [1725 - William Caslon] Cooper Black [1920 - Oswald B. Cooper] Peignot [1937 - A. M. Cassandre] Bell Gothic [1938 - Chauncey H. Griffith] Antique Olive [1962 - Roger Excoffon] Wilhelm Klngspor Gotisch [1926 - Rudolf Koch] Info [1996 - Erik Spiekermann] Dax [1995 - Hans Reichel] Proforma [1988 - Petr van Blokland] Today Sans [1988 - Volker Kster] Prokyon [2002 - Erhard Kaiser] Trade Gothic [1948 - Jackson Burke] Swift [1987 - Gerald Unger] Copperplate Gothic [1901 - Frederic W. Goudy] Blur [1992 - Neville Brody] Base [1995 - Zuzana Licko] Bell Centennial [1978 - Matthew Carter] News Gothic [1908 - Morris Fuller Benton] Avenir [1988 - Adrian Frutiger] Bernhard Modern [1937 - Lucian Bernhard] Amplitude [2003 - Christian Schwartz] Trixie [1991 - Erik van Blokland] Quadraat [1992 - Fred Smeijers] Neutraface [2002 - Christian Schwartz] Nobel [1929 - Sjoerd de Roos] Industria [1990 - Neville Brody] Bickham Script [1997 - Richard Lipton] Bank Gothic [1930 - Morris Fuller Benton] Corporate ASE [1989 - Kurt Weidemann] Fago [2000 - Ole Schafer] Trajan [1989 - Carol Twombly] Kabel [1927 - Rudolf Koch] House Gothic 23 [1995 - Tal Leming] Kosmik [1993 - Letterror] Caecilia [1990 - Peter Matthias Noordzij] Mrs Eaves [1996 - Zuzana Licko] Corpid [1997 - Lucas de Groot] Miller [1997 - Matthew Carter] Souvenir [1914 - Morris Fuller Benton] Instant Types [1992 - Just van Rossum] Clarendon [1845 - Benjamin Fox]

88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100.

Triplex [1989 - Zuzana Licko] Benguiat [1989 - Ed Benguiat] Zapf Renaissance [1984 - Hermann Zapf] Filosofia [1996 - Zuzana Licko] Chalet [1996 - House Industries] Quay Sans [1990 - David Quay] Czanne [1995 - Michael Want, James Grieshaber] Reporter [1938 - Carlos Winkow] Legacy [1992 - Ronald Arnholm] Agenda [1993 - Greg Thompson] Bello [2004 - Underware] Dalliance [2000 - Frank Heine] Mistral [1953 - Roger Excoffon]