50 fonts that will be popular with designers in 2025

Typography is a funny thing because while it's largely based on fundamental, eternal principles, it nonetheless continues to evolve year after year. Most notably, some of the best font foundries are constantly working to develop new typefaces and reinvigorate beloved classics.

With all these fabulous fonts in the ether, though, it's easy to miss out on a lot of the good stuff. So, we asked the Creative Boom community to highlight their favourite fonts going into 2025. And we present the 50 most popular in our article below.

This year's selection showcases a diverse range of styles, from timeless classics reimagined for the digital age to cutting-edge designs that push the boundaries of legibility and aesthetics. More specifically, we're seeing a resurgence of elegant serifs, now optimised for screen readability, alongside bold, expressive sans serifs perfect for making a statement in branding and editorial design.

Our list also reflects the ongoing shift towards versatility and functionality, with many typefaces offering extensive language support and a wide range of weights and styles. At the same time, handwritten and display fonts continue to captivate, offering unique personalities for projects that demand a touch of the extraordinary. (For a deeper discussion of developments in the field, meanwhile, make sure you read our article The biggest font trends to look out for 2025.)

Whether you're looking to refresh your go-to font choices or seeking that perfect typeface for an upcoming project, you're sure to find something new and exciting in the selection below. Plus, for further inspiration, our 2024 list is still very much worth looking at too.

1. TYPE BY Quadraat by Fred Smeijers

Quadraat is a versatile typeface that combines Renaissance elegance with contemporary ideas on construction and form. Its letterforms feature vibrant outlines without being overly flashy or dated. Designer Fred Smeijers' first commercial typeface, released in 1992, was fully remastered in 2019 and re-hinted to meet the demands of today's digital technology. With its calligraphic roots and sharp edges, it's a great choice for evoking a sense of elegant authority.

2. Arnhem by Fred Smeijers

Another typeface by Fred Smeijers was initially designed for the Nederlandse Staatscourant, the daily newspaper of the Dutch state. As you'd imagine, it has a very functional design suitable for setting long text, making it a good option for any designer prioritising legibility in their designs.

3. RST Thermal by Reset

RST Thermal is a variable font that blends classical typography with modern design, focusing on balance and contrast. It features two axes, weight and optical size, offering versatility for text and display applications. The regular and italic weights create a warm atmosphere, drawing inspiration from 16th-century French type designer Robert Granjon. This design evokes a comforting rhythm, enhancing readability and providing a familiar, enjoyable experience.

4. Druk by Berton Hasebe

Designed by Berton Hasebe, Druk is a bold, condensed display typeface designed for impactful headlines. Originally commissioned for Bloomberg Businessweek in 2011, it draws inspiration from artists such as Willem Sandberg and Barbara Kruger, as well as historical condensed sans serifs, notably Annonce Grotesk. Hasebe's design choices include flat surfaces for clean stacking and tighter spacing to enhance visual impact.

4. Romie by Margot Leveque

Romie is a calligraphy-inspired display font created by Margot Lévêque, which carries forward the rich legacy of influences from Lubalin and Bookman. Available in 12 styles, it's a delicate, elegant serif with a modern twist, making it ideal for editorial use. It supports over 300 languages worldwide, and an update in June 2024 includes all italic styles, completing the family.

5. PP Editorial New by Pangram Pangram

Designed by Mat Desjardins and Francesca Bolognini, this precise and elegant narrow serif typeface combines a retro mid-90s feel with a contemporary richness. Its lighter weights exude elegance and refinement, making it ideal for fashion brands and magazines, while the regular weight offers excellent legibility for editorial content without being bland. The heavier weights feature exaggerated curves, adding personality to designs, especially when paired with its lush italics. This font comes in 16 styles, each with 463 glyphs.

6. Rhythmic Regal by RabenRifaie Studio

A contemporary serif with rhythmic and elegant curves, Rhythmic Regal is designed for luxury branding. The result of a "happy accident", it emerged from a spark of inspiration that came to the studio while working on one of our client projects. Exuding grandeur and intricacy, this ornamental typeface is built on a grid and offers a striking contrast with its elaborate details and regal presence.

7. NaN Serf by NaN

NaN Serf is designed for optimal performance at all sizes. Its orthogonal detailing combines historical elements with contemporary aesthetics, providing a warm letterpress feel at small sizes and a crisp, geometric finish at larger sizes. It features perpendicular terminals, open counters, and flat terminal endings, ensuring excellent screen readability and a graphic appeal. As of July 2024, NaN Serf has been updated to include italics for all weights.

8. ITC Garamond by ITC

Designed in 1975 by Tony Stan, ITC Garamond is an interpretation of Garamond that was originally conceived as a display face. Consequently, it boasts unusually wide proportions and a taller x-height than the more typical Garamond-inspired book faces. It contains 24 styles in total.

9. Big Caslon by Matthew Carter and Cherie Cone

While William Caslon's iconic text typefaces have often been revived, the eccentric display sizes had remained untouched until the release in 1994 of Big Caslon. Designed by Matthew Carter and Cherie Cone, this font is characterised by high contrast and is intended for use at size 18 points or above.

10. Leiko by Visual Arts Institute

Free for personal and commercial use, this display font was created by students at the Media & Design Department of Hungary's Visual Arts Institute. It's a re-interpretation of Lora, an open-source text serif with moderate contrast.

Sans Serifs

11. Europa by Charly Derouault

Europa is a geometric sans serif with a clean, minimal design, making it well-suited for branding projects. Designed by Charly Derouault, this multi-script typeface builds on the history of European Grotesque typography, with forms inherited from Akzidenz Grotesk but developed through a more subtle contrast. Applied to a utopian project, the creation of a new pan-European motorway network, the three scripts which compose Europa were drawn jointly, the design of each influencing the design of the others.

12. Push by Christine Gertsch/Fontwerk

Push is a high-contrast sans serif inspired by Swiss typography and influenced by early American Gothics and European Grotesques. Its design reflects the evolution of sans serifs over the past century while maintaining a contemporary feel. Notable features include a bold, condensed, crossbar-less capital 'G' inspired by Thorowgood's 1830 Seven-Line Grotesque and a lowercase 'a' similar to Plak from 1930.

13. Gamuth Sans by Production Type

Gamuth Sans is a versatile sans serif with elegant curves ideal for branding. Combining humanist warmth with rational precision, it's designed for UI applications. It offers clarity at small sizes and multiplexed fonts for easy content hierarchisation without affecting layout. Gamuth Sans includes 12 styles, supports over 500 languages and provides extensive OpenType features.

14. Paramount by Production Type

Paramount is a modern sans-serif with clean lines and a bold character. Designed by Chi-Long Trieu, it's inspired by sci-fi and blends futuristic aesthetics with human warmth. The family includes Paramount and Paramount Neo, each with six Roman styles and matching italics, featuring unique glyph alternates and distinctive letter shapes.

15. Nave by Jamie Clarke Type

Released in 2024, Nave is a contemporary sans serif designed for clean typographic compositions. Inspired by ancient churches, its unique character combines formal structure with dynamic, approachable shapes, making it suitable for designs that aim to inject life into familiar forms. This font includes 14 styles, 227 languages, and 600+ characters.

17. Cina Sans by Andrés Torresi

Cina Sans is a sans serif with personality, designed for versatility. A Neo-Grotesque typeface inspired by Helvetica but reimagined through multiple iterations; the typeface reflects designer Andrés Torres's long engagement with typographic history. It features nine weights, 1,460 characters per weight, and various stylistic sets, aiming to be both familiar and innovative.

18. Vitamiin by Typokompanii

Vitamiin is a playful sans-serif with rounded terminals perfect for casual branding. Described by its creators as a "Semi-Softie" typeface, it brings together humanist and geometric styles with a mix of rounded and sharp elements. The family supports Latin and Cyrillic scripts, with uniquely constructed italics using slanting and rotating techniques.

19. Lato by Łukasz Dziedzic

Lato is a classic sans serif with a friendly and warm character, a great choice for web design. It was designed in the summer of 2010 by Warsaw-based designer Łukasz Dziedzic ('lato' means summer in Polish) and has since been published under the open-source Open Font License. The easiest way to use the latest 2.0 version on the web is through Adobe Typekit.

20. Right Grotesque Mono by Pangram Pangram

Designed to be a versatile and high-quality type family for both serious and fun projects, Right Grotesk is a sans serif with mono-weight strokes. Combining technical precision with style, it blends the neutrality and functionality of workhorse typefaces with a touch of distinctive personality. It features smooth curves, moderate contrast and slightly unusual anatomy.

21. Inter by Rasmus Andersson

Designed by Swedish designer and programmer Rasmus Andersson, Inter is a popular sans serif with a large x-height designed for optimal legibility across digital platforms. As a free and open-source font family, its creators say you can use it in "almost any way imaginable".

22. Obviously by Oh No Type Co.

Obviously is a bold and expressive sans serif designed for clear, unsubtle communication, such as attention-grabbing headlines. It was inspired by handpainted signage, vinyl and "billboards that advertise with black on an obnoxious shade of pink or neon green". Available in 96 styles, it's purpose-made for "places like nail salons, laundromats, and mechanics"; places where straightforward messaging is key.

23. Neue Montreal by by Pangram Pangram

Neue Montreal is a contemporary sans serif with a wide and geometric design. Described by its makers as "a versatile Grotesque font with the spirit of a display font", it comes complete with 14 weights (seven uprights and seven italics) and a slightly tighter kerning including Cyrillic support.

24. Halvar Breitschrift by type.today

Halvar Breitschrift is a bold sans serif that can be used for both display and body text. All its styles are multiplexed, so a word in one of Halvar's Roman or italic widths will occupy the same space regardless of weight. This makes it a good choice for fine work in annual reports, interface design, or anywhere space is at a premium, and the demands of reflow, rollover and animation must be considered.

25. Work Sans by Wei Huang

Work Sans is a sans serif optimised for readability on screens. The family is based loosely on early Grotesques, such as those by Stephenson Blake, Miller & Richard and Bauerschen Giesserei. The Regular weight and others in the middle of the family are optimised for on-screen text usage at medium sizes (14px-48px) and can also be used in print design. The fonts closer to the extreme weights are designed more for display use both on the web and in print.

26. Söhne by Klim Type Foundry

Söhne is a geometric sans serif inspired by the typefaces of the 20th century. Its creators describe it as: "the memory of Akzidenz-Grotesk framed through the reality of Helvetica [...] it captures the analogue materiality of Standard Medium used in Unimark's legendary wayfinding system for the NYC Subway." Published through Klim Type Foundry in 2019, it comes in eight weights with matching italics.

27. Miligram by Zetafont

Milligram is a minimalist sans serif that's a good choice for both print and web projects. It was designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli as a homage to Akzidenz Grotesk, with its focus on tight spacing and negative space. The Text subfamily offers a more relaxed rhythm, while the Macro variant explores extreme tightness and touching of letterforms.

28. Retail by Oh No Type Co.

Retail is a humanist sans serif designed for retail branding and product packaging. The designers at Ohno wanted it to be reliable yet different from the overused Helvetica style. For small sizes, they created simple, restrained Text styles with straight stems and low contrast, perfect for everyday use. The Display styles, however, are more expressive and bold, adding warmth and personality.

Display

29. Euchre from Okay Type

Euchre is a playful sans-serif display font that's a good choice for posters and editorial work. With comfortable proportions and a dependable open structure, its charm comes from its perfect balance of contrast, as its creators put it, "just enough to make words sparkle but not dazzle".

30. Canvas Inline by Ryan Martinson at Adobe Fonts

Canvas Inline is a bold inline display font, which is worth considering for headlines and advertising designs. Designed by Ryan Martinson of Yellow Design Studio, it's an eccentric handpainted unicase family with unique layering options and an authentic, high-res texture that retains its realism even at very large sizes. Canvas Inline also boasts double-letter ligatures that automatically fix adjacent duplicate letters.

31. Montsserat by Julieta Ulanovsky, Sol Matas, Juan Pablo del Peral, Jacques Le Bailly

Montserrat is a popular display sans serif used in various branding and web projects. Inspired by an old neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, it was created by Julieta Ulanovsky in 2010 while she was a student of typeface design. This free, open-source font boasts subtle optical adjustments that make it a worthy choice for the editorial and corporate realm.

32. Ssonder by Type of Feeling

Ssonder is a quirky, expressive display typeface from Jessica Walsh's new foundry, Type of Feeling. The serif typeface is inspired by the feeling of profound realisation that each person you encounter has their own intricate and unique life, forming a delicate web of experiences and memories. With this in mind, Ssonder has been crafted to reflect the interconnectedness of individual stories through its design.

33. SWORDFISH by CAST Studies

Swordfish is an all-caps geometric sans for display, branding, and titling. It was inspired by avant-garde typefaces of the 1920s and 30s and jazz record covers of the 40s and 50s. This bold, dramatic display font would make a good choice for posters or any project demanding visual impact.

34. Mattone by Collettivo

Mattone is a display font with distinctive letterforms and a creative vibe. This highly visible sans serif boasts generous width proportions and loud curves. Initially launched in 2017 as a display face, it was completely redrawn from scratch in 2021 and can now set longer text pieces at smaller sizes, with broad language support.

35. Embryo by Hannes von Döhren

Embryo is a soft, rounded display typeface with a playful, organic feel. The concept behind it was to create a typeface that has not completely evolved. As designer Hannes von Döhren puts it, "The letters can already be recognised, but they are still not completely finished. The result is an ultra sweet, super heavy font that is already readable".

36. Poppins by Indian Type Foundry, Jonny Pinhorn, Ninad Kale

Poppins is a geometric sans serif that's a good choice for display and web projects. It supports both the Devanagari and Latin writing systems. Both scripts are based on geometric principles, especially circles and nearly monolinear letterforms, with adjustments made to ensure even typographic colour.

37. ES Rebond Grotesque Medium by Extraset

ES Rebond Grotesque Medium is a bold sans-serif display font that is great for titles and headlines. Designed by Roger Gaillard, it combines French-Swiss influences with the traditional Germanic Grotesque style. Blending strictness with flexibility, it balances a neutral overall tone with distinctive, assertive details expressed through curves and links.

38. Hatton by Pangram Pangram

Hatton is a stylish display font with a modern aesthetic. Created in collaboration between London-based studio Two Times Elliott and Montreal-based type foundry Pangram Pangram, it's inspired by Hatton Garden, the historic jewellery quarter in London known for its diamond trade. The typeface reflects the character and charm of the area's street signage, ghost signs, and shop fronts, capturing the hand-rendered imperfection of the local lettering. The result is an eclectic, unique typeface with 3,224 glyphs, available in 8 weights, from Ultralight to Black.

39. Blue Ocean by Heru Utama Putra

Designed by Heru Utama Putra and published by Letterena Studios, Blue Ocean is a display font characterised by ocean-inspired curves and organic shapes. It's a good choice for designing eye-catching titles and logos on everything from posters and flyers to edgy branding projects, as well as fashion and lifestyle products.

40. Britti Sans by Nois Type Studio

Britti Sans is a bold, sans-serif display font that's a good option for impactful design. A modern grotesque typeface with geometric influences and strong ties to industrial design principles, its versatility is enhanced by OpenType features such as alternate characters, localised options, and multilingual support. Key features include contextual alternates, localised Sharp S, numerators and denominators, a variety of currency symbols (including Bitcoin), emojis, icons, proportional/tabular numbers, fractions, and circled numbers.

41. Commissioner by Kostas Bartsokas

Commissioner is a variable and static sans typeface designed for digital use and also suitable for display. Designed by Guillermo and published by Nois, the family consists of three "voices". The default style is a grotesque with straight stems. As the flair axis grows, the straight grotesque terminals develop a swelling and become almost glyphic serifs, while joints become more idiosyncratic. The volume axis transforms the glyphic serifs into wedge-like ones.

42. Rework by Sociotype

Rework is a dynamic display font that's suitable for digital and print projects alike. A sans serif superfamily and contemporary workhorse, it's inspired by 19th-century architectural lettering, the earliest printed grotesques, copperplate engraving, and 20th-century phototypesetting. This modern workhorse is designed to perform impeccably at any scale, from monumental to minuscule.

43. Neue Machina by Pangram Pangram

Neue Machina is a sans serif with a technical, modern twist that's a good choice for futuristic and tech-focused designs. Inspired by robotics and machine aesthetics, this bold, meticulously crafted typeface with monospace and geometric features is distinguished by pronounced ink traps in its heavier weights. It comes in both an Inktrap and Plain cut, each with corresponding italics.

Other

44. TT Firs Neue by Type Type

TT Firs Neue is a Scandinavian sans serif which has a graphic appearance while being highly flexible in its application. It can be used for headings, text fragments, visual merchandising and building decoration, and the web. More specifically, it would work well visually on podcast and video covers and is an ideal choice for packaging design.

45. Cringe Sans by Brandon Nickerson

Cringe Sans is a funky handwritten display font aimed at a more casual aesthetic. This distressed typeface has nonetheless been designed for legibility and can help give your brand/design a unique look and feel.

46. Lausanne by Nizar Kazan

Designed by Nizar Kazan, Lausanne is a handwritten font that can help add a personal touch to your designs. A sophisticated sans serif with an ultra-organic aesthetic, it's very legible in small sizes and full of refined details in display sizes.

47. Gooper by Very Cool Studio

Gooper is a quirky, bouncy, handwritten font well suited to posters and creative branding. Its makers describe it as a "lively, loveable, sticky typeface made for the use of squishy living things, so they can communicate with other squishy living things." And they urge you to swap it out for whatever "heartless minimalist font you were using" to bring your type to life.

48. Romancial by Typia Nesia

Romancial is a handwritten script font with elegant flourishes. Designed by Typia Nesia, it would work well in invitations, luxury branding, classy editorial design, women's magazines, cosmetic brands, fashion, and any project with a romantic theme.

49. Aleo by Alessio Laiso

Aleo is a contemporary slab serif that combines geometric shapes with a humanist twist, making it great for both display and text. It was designed by Alessio Laiso as the slab serif companion to Łukasz Dziedzic's Lato. Aleo has semi-rounded details and a sleek structure, giving it a strong personality while still being highly legible.

50. Jubel by Type of Feeling

Jubel is a display sans serif that expresses the idea of joy and celebration, often accompanied by a sense of pride and accomplishment. The letters are bold and capture the happiness and enthusiasm of a festive celebration, while the thick strokes and lively curves exude excitement, reflecting the jubilant mood.