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Top 10 Typefaces

The letters doing the heavy lifting of civilization. Helvetica partisans, form an orderly queue.

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  1. 1

    Helvetica

    The invisible default of the modern world.

  2. 2

    Garamond

    Five hundred years old and still the best dressed serif in the room.

  3. 3

    Futura

    Geometry with ambition. It went to the moon.

  4. 4

    Univers

    Helvetica's smarter, better-organized sibling.

  5. 5

    Caslon

    When in doubt, set it in Caslon.

  6. 6

    Akzidenz-Grotesk

    The grandmother of every neutral sans.

  7. 7

    Baskerville

    Studies say it makes you more believable. Believe them.

  8. 8

    Gill Sans

    Britain, in font form.

  9. 9

    Bodoni

    High contrast, higher fashion.

  10. 10

    Cooper Black

    The friendliest fat letters ever drawn.

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