Finding the best typefaces among thousands can be time-consuming and frustrating! To give you a headstart and make things a little easier, we’ve curated a list of high-quality must-have typefaces for 2025. It’s a blend of display and workhorse font families that will serve you and your clients well for years to come:
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Fooundry5It was love at first sight. Evert from Foundry5 is a thoroughly modern grotesque that manages to preserve some of the quirkiness and warmth that we expect from the genre; but introduces confident letterforms with those deep cuts that I especially like in the numerals. Evert is available in three optical sizes, across eight weights, from a crisp monoline Light to a hard-hitting and supremely confident Black.
Mirela Belova, Stan Partalev Type ForwardA modern sans serif with a strong personality. Bion has some of the crispness and precision of a geometric sans, but exhibits some of the warmth of a humanist sans. This makes it especially versatile in sizes large and small. This accomplished font family is ideal for UI design, wayfinding, and as a solid workhorse sans for branding and much more.
Roch Modrzejewski ROHHA contemporary Didone with sparkling ball terminals and a stunning italic. The Sayke full family includes the 2-axis variable fonts (weight & optical size) and is a steal! It’s a large family of seven weights across four different optical sizes (designed for running text to type for posters and billboards.
Jamie Clarke Jamie Clarke TypeJamie Clarke’s brand new and brilliant Nave is the perfect choice for designers looking to intertwine tradition with creativity. Blending more formal and rigid outer shapes contrasted against the looser, more organic flowing inner forms makes for a rather special tension that brings the whole typeface to life. Expect to see this on posters and packaging in 2025.
Philip Lammert Vibrant TypesIn 2024 Philip Lammert’s Moucha won a prestigious German Design Award. Much more than meets the eye, Moucha is a pretty special geometric sans with vintage and modern variant axes to adjust proportions.Try it for your 2025 branding projects, or simply add it to your type library for whenever you need a modern, versatile workhorse sans serif font family. Broad language support (including Vietnamese) and supports three scripts: Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin!
James Puckett Dunwich Type FoundersThe best-selling professional font family Antarctican is designed to meet all your branding needs. I’m especially fond of the monospaced family. This is a great typeface that would be an asset to any graphic designer.
Jean François Porchez TypofonderieAny must-have list worth its salt need s classic script typeface. Now, when you go to reach for an elegant and beautifully drawn script, in 2025, you’ll have Jean François Porchez’s Altesse at hand. Available in two optical weights for use at small and large sizes. C’est vraiment magnifique.
Emma Marichal TypetogetherBased on old wood types, Emma Marichal’s Ploquine is a calm & structured slab serif for editorial design and branding. One of my new favorite slab serif font families. A must-have editorial typeface with a surprisingly broad range, making it great for texts and display. Even the lightest weights, when set big, look absolutely stunning.
Simon Walker Beasts of EnglandBeasts of England’s swashbuckling Niven is a breathtaking medley of ligatures and swashes that will set your heart aflutter! A beautiful smorgasbord of sumptuousness. Take it for a spin and fall in love.
Joshua Darden The Freight CollectionJoshua Darden’s timeless classic. Freight is an expansive superfamily comprising a number of optical weights, including the rather special Freight Micro, designed specially for captions and other places you might need tiny text — but also looks magnificent when used big as a display face. Freight Italics are among my all-time favorites. Freight also includes a versatile humanist sans serif family.
