There are so many fonts out there that can be used for various graphic design purposes, we are going to be listing out the best fonts for graphic design which are used for their respective purposes.
These fonts can be used for heading, sub-heading, titles, and body text.
But today we are going to be on the lookout for the top five body text font that can be used in your graphic design projects.
The first on our list is:
Raleway
The raleway font is a font that has a nice appearance for body texting. it can be paired with most fonts and it blends in very well.
Raleway is an elegant sans-serif typeface family. Initially designed by Matt McInerney as a single thin weight, it was expanded into a 9-weight family by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida in 2012 and iKerned by Igino Marini. A thorough review and italic were added in 2016.
It can be used as a display and body font and the download features both old style and lining numerals, standard and discretionary ligatures, a pretty complete set of diacritics, as well as a stylistic alternate inspired by more geometric sans-serif typefaces than its neo-grotesque inspired default character set.
With its fine design, I bet you this font will not fail to deliver its best.
Gill sans
The Gill sans is another font I personally use from to time and it always comes out great in almost all aspects of any of my design projects.
Gill Sans is based on Edward Johnston’s 1916 “Underground Alphabet”, the corporate font of London Underground. As a young artist, Gill had assisted Johnston in its early development stages.
In 1926, Douglas Cleverdon, a young printer-publisher, opened a bookshop in Bristol, and Gill painted a fascia for the shop for him in sans-serif capitals.
In addition, Gill sketched an alphabet for Cleverdon as a guide for him to use for future notices and announcements. By this time Gill had become a prominent stonemason, artist, and creator of lettering in his own right and had begun to work on creating typeface designs and it has been used to date.
Bodoni
Next on our list is bodoini.
Bodoni is a serif font that stands out from the rest of its peers and does a good job when it comes to the choice of body texting. It also works well if you want to achieve classic design styles that tend to give that old medieval aesthetic.
It also works well for a design project that is print-aimed as well as for digital screen purposes that only concern design projects that are only used on digital screens like; mobile phones, desktops, smartwatches
The Bodoni™ font is a well-known serif typeface series that has had a long history of interpretations by many design houses. It was first designed by Giambattisa Bodoni in 1798 and is generally considered a “transitional” font type.
Bodoni was a prolific type font designer and this particular font was highly influenced by the work of John Baskerville, a designer whose work Bodoni followed.
The font, with its highly recognizable centered “Q” tail and slight hook in the “J”, was widely accepted by printers and can be seen in a broad variety of publications and uses since the late 1700s.
Didot
And last but not least our best fonts for graphic design is Didot. This font appears on the front row section of serif fonts that are perfect for fonts that gives that classic and majestic look to your design.
For about 100 years in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, several members of the Didot family were active in Paris as designers. They were also printers, publishers, typefounders, inventors, writers, and intellectuals.
Around 1800, the Didot family owned the most important print shop and font foundry in France. Pierre Didot published books and prints set in typefaces designed and punch cut by his brother, Firmin Didot. The statuesque, clear forms of the Didot alphabets are representative of the time and are quite similar to those designed by Giambattista Bodoni around the same time in Italy.
These types are in the style known as “modern” – meaning they are characterized by extreme vertical stress and fine hairlines contrasted by bold main strokes.
Linotype Didot™ was drawn by Adrian Frutiger in 1991 and is based on the fonts cut by Firmin Didot between 1799 and 1811. Frutiger also studied the Didot types in a book printed by the Didots in 1818, “La Henriade” by Voltaire.
This beautifully drawn family has 12 weights including Old style Figures, a headline version, and superb graphic ornaments. Linotype Didot is the right choice for elegant book and magazine designs, as well as advertising with a classic touch.
Hey folks, I believe we’ve learned some stuff today and I really want you guys to download these fonts and try them out on your new graphic design project and see how cool these fonts really are.
Thank you! And see you on the next one