Best Fonts in Adobe Illustrator
Written by Casey Botticello
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Great graphic design is powered by great font selection. This is especially true when it comes to font selection for your website! But picking great fonts is a challenge most people. Luckily, our team of design experts has prepared a tutorial covering the best fonts in Adobe Illustrator.
Best Fonts in Adobe Illustrator
1. Libre Baskerville
Libre Baskerville is a web font optimized for body text (typically 16px.) It is based on the American Type Founder’s Baskerville from 1941, but it has a taller x-height, wider counters, and a little less contrast, which allow it to work well for reading on-screen.
2. Liberation Sans
The Liberation(TM) Fonts is a font family which aims at metric compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New. It is sponsored by Red Hat.
3. Alegreya
Alegreya is a typeface originally intended for literature. Among its crowning characteristics, it conveys a dynamic and varied rhythm that facilitates the reading of long texts. Also, it provides freshness to the page while referring to the calligraphic letter, not as a literal interpretation, but rather in a contemporary typographic language.
4. Alerta Stencil
Allerta was initially developed for use in signage, designed to be easily and quickly read from a distance. Each glyph exploits the unique aspects of the individual letter so that each can be easily distinguished from any other.
5. League Gothic
League Gothic is a revival of an old classic: Alternate Gothic. It was originally designed by Morris Fuller Bentonfor the American Type Founders Company in 1903. The League Of Moveable Types decided to make their own version, and contribute it to the Open Source Type Movement.
6. Oscar FM
Oscar was inspired by the elegance and sophistication of Hollywood’s Golden Era, Oscar is a lyrical nod to the pinnacle of cinema achievements, the Academy Awards. Its slim, graceful features are accentuated by undulating triple waves. Delicate yet sturdy, it will handily support messages both solemn and joyful.
7. Bungee
Bungee is a font family that celebrates urban signage. In the crowded urban environment, the space for signage is always at a premium. From dumpy liquor stores to majestic theaters, sometimes signs have nowhere to go but up. It wrangles the Latin alphabet to work vertically as well as horizontally.
8. Fira Sans
Fira Sans was designed to integrate with the character of the Mozilla FirefoxOS, the Fira typefaces also aim to cover the legibility needs for a large range of handsets varying in screen quality and rendering.
9. Source Han Sans JP
Source Han Sans is a sans-serif gothic typeface family created by Adobe and Google. It is also released by Google under the Noto fonts project as Noto Sans CJK. The family includes seven weights and supports Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean
10. Source Sans Pro
Source® Sans Pro, Adobe’s first open source typeface family, was designed by Paul D. Hunt. It is a sans serif typeface intended to work well in user interfaces.
