Top New Fonts of 2018 on MyFonts
2018 was a busy year for building the MyFonts inventory — last year alone we added over 1,790 new font families to our site. You can rest easy, lovers of type. We’ve gone through the lists, crunched all the numbers, and came up with our definitive list of the 25 bestselling new fonts on MyFonts in 2018.
Criteria was simple — only fonts released on MyFonts in 2018 were considered for our list, and our rankings were based on total 2018 revenue for each family.
#1: Mont
By Fontfabric
Congratulations to the Fontfabric team for their release Mont, coming at the top spot. Mont is a geometric sans serif consisting of 20 styles ranging from Hairline to Black with matching italics. It supports Extended Latin, Cyrillic and Greek — more than 130 languages all together.
#2: TT Commons
By TypeType
At #2 on our list, TT Commons is also a geometric sans serif. TT Commons originated from the new TypeType logo, created in 2016 as part of TypeType’s rebranding. Ideas from the logo formed the basis of two fully developed faces (regular and medium), which in early 2017 became the official corporate typefaces of the TypeType Foundry.
Due to the number of requests for the typeface, the TypeType team expanded TT Commons to 18 styles and released it for sale in 2018. Additionally, TypeType added small capitals for the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, expanded the character case to 771 glyphs, and introduced 18 OpenType features.
#3: Recoleta
By Latinotype
Coming in at #3, Recoleta took 2018 by storm. It takes its inspiration from various popular 1970s typefaces — such as the soft and gentle shapes found in Cooper or the fluid, angled strokes in Windsor — mixed into one single design that features familiar, yet fresh, modern flavors.
With 14 styles increasing in weight and contrast, designers have flexibility to find the ideal typographic color for their projects. Lighter weights are well-suited for body text while heavier ones are ideal for high impact headlines. It also includes a number of stylistic alternates for customization.
#4: Walbaum™
By Monotype
Walbaum™ — with its easy elegance and sophisticated persona —was fully restored by the Monotype team Carl Crossgrove, Charles Nix and Juan Villanueva from its first iteration in the 1800s. It’s now an expansive family, which includes 69 styles including ornaments and two decorative cuts.
Walbaum™ offers the kind of warmth that’s missing from comparable typefaces such as Bodoni or Didot, feeling effortlessly approachable and legible. Monotype designers adhered to designer Justus Erich Walbaum’s original intentions, and also incorporated work by the designer’s son into some of its more extreme display weights — pushing the possibilities of Walbaum™ without compromising on its spirit. Text weights work well for the demands of digital environments, while decorative and display weights offer more dramatic, sculptural forms. The family also includes a generous range of ornaments, over 600 glyphs with OpenType typographic features including small capitals, old style and lining figures, proportional and tabular figures, fractions and ligatures.
Walbaum™ received the 2019 Award of Excellence from Communication Arts.
#5: Madera™
By Monotype
Malou Verlomme designed Madera™ with graphic designers in mind — drawing on his decade of experience designing bespoke type to create a versatile, easy-to- use geometric sans serif specifically for branding needs. “The design doesn’t go out of its way to attract attention, but is still very solid,” explains Verlomme. “It still has a fair amount of warmth and personality, in a very understated manner. If you’re a large corporation, with a typeface being used in many different environments, you want something that’s easy to use but can sustain such a large amount of visibility.”
The Madera™ typeface family has 16 fonts styles including uprights and italics. Each typeface contains over 650 glyphs with extensive Western, Central and Eastern European language support. It also supports OpenType typographic features like alternatives, ligatures and fractions.
#6: Neue Plak™
By Monotype
Originally designed in 1928, Plak is something of a lost gem in the type world. Despite being drawn by Futura creator Paul Renner, it never achieved the same popularity and spent decades lacking a much-needed digital revival. Monotype designers Linda Hintz and Toshi Omagari took the original three weights and, after extensive research into the original wood type, extended them into the vast Neue Plak™ family comprised of 60 styles.
The design brings together a defiant outer appearance that’s counteracted by more playful details found in the lowercase r and the large dots of the lowercase i. Other distinctive details include open or strikethrough counters, and a set of hairline widths that distill Renner’s original design to its bones.
#7: Baro
By Indian Type Foundry
Baro is a geometric all-caps family of seven sans serif fonts ideal for layering. Mix and match the fonts for chromatic typesetting.* Baro was developed by the Paris-based designer Julie Soudanne.
*Chromatic typesetting is relatively simple to do in Adobe Creative Suite applications: just repeat the same text on multiple layers, use a different font on each layer, and make the text on each layer have a unique color.
#8: Northwell
By Set Sail Studios
Northwell is a rustic, dapper, handwritten font with a personal charm. With quick dry strokes and a signature style, Northwell is perfect for branding projects, homeware designs, product packaging — or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image.
Northwell includes a complete set of alternate characters in the Stylistic Alternates set, as well as a set of 20 hand-drawn swashes, the perfect finishing touch to underline your Northwell text. Ligatures are also available for several lowercase characters.
#9: White Oleander
By Nicky Laatz
White Oleander is a stylish handwritten font, with subtle texture imperfections, to appear as authentic as possible while remaining clearly legible. The four versions of the font (Regular, Slanted, Upright, and Compact) give a slightly different feel. White Oleander is a truly versatile font — displaying a sophisticated, casual, and even playful tone — depending on which style you use.
A comprehensive set of upper and lower case letter alternates, as well as a second set of lower case alternates is accessible via its handy OpenType features. White Oleander also features 32 natural-looking ligatures, along with ten swooping swashes, to add authentic variation to designs.
#10: Blacker
By Zetafonts
The first serif on our list belongs to Blacker, a striking display and text font with 24 styles. Blacker is a wedge serif type family designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli as a take on the contemporary “evil serif” genre: typefaces with high contrast, 1970s evoking proportions and sharp wedge serifs.
Design details have been fine-tuned in two subfamilies: the display variant offers tighter kerning, higher contrast and sharper corners for maximum effect at big sizes, while the text variant offers better readability and screen rendering with lower contrast. Blacker features an extended character set that covers over seventy languages using the latin alphabet, as well as Russian Cyrillic. OpenType features include small caps, four sets of figures, fractions, superior & inferior figures, alternate forms and discretionary ligatures.
#11: Muara
By Surotype
Muara is a display all-caps font comprised of four styles including regular, slanted, rough and rough slanted. Each style contains over 330 glyphs. also has alternative characters such as Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Set, and Swash variant.
#12: TT Jenevers
By TypeType
TT Jenevers is a modern serif with Dutch flavor. The font family features the characteristic details peculiar to Dutch serifs — these are the asymmetrical shape of serifs and an irregular slant of ovals. For example, in the letter “o” there is no slant, but it is present in p-q. In TT Jenevers, both lowercase and uppercase characters are of a large size, which makes it a rather display typeface. At the same time, the big half-ellipse of the lowercase characters does not allow the letters to stick, which allows the implementation of TT Jenevers in text arrays. The italics of the TT Jenevers are slightly narrower as compared to upright faces — this is done to ensure a greater density of the text array.
TT Jenevers font family consists of 12 fonts (6 upright and 6 true Italics), each of which has more than 740 characters. The typefaces include small capitals for Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, 33 ligatures, standard and old-style figures, and stylistic alternates.
#13: TT Tricks
By TypeType
The TT Tricks font family consists of two font subfamilies, a serif and stencil, for a total of 24 font styles. TT Tricks features an original stylistic set which, when turned on, adds features of typical pointed-pen serifs to some of the lowercase characters. In addition, TT Tricks has small capitals for Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, as well as several interesting ligatures and a large number of OpenType features.
The original idea of TT Tricks is based on the graduation project of student Sofia Yasenkova, who chose to create a daily planner font as her final project. This led to the stylistic decisions resulting in the large and asymmetrical serifs, low contrast strokes, and quirky details.
#14: Kapra Neue Pro
By Typoforge Studio
Kapra Neue Pro is the younger sister of Kapra Neue (he was the #1 bestselling Grotesque Sans released in 2017 on MyFonts) and grandson of Kapra. Now you really have a lot of options to choose from! This new family contains 96 styles in a wide range of instances from condensed to expanded. You can pick from rounded corners or sharp ones. This 2018 Pro version of Kapra Neue now has small caps, cyrillic script, and old-style figures. Kapra Neue Pro is inspired by a “You And Me Monthly” magazine, published by National Magazines Publisher RSW “Prasa” in Poland, from May 1960 till December 1973.
#15: Qualion™
By ROHH
Qualion™ is a modern geometric grotesk typeface with humanist and calligraphic inspirations, consisting of 30 styles that include both obliques and true italics. It has extended language support, as well as broad number of OpenType features. This versatile sans serif is not only well suited to clean, minimal projects and text paragraphs, but it has lots of features making it perfect for branding, logo design and all kinds of display use. All fonts are packed with alternates, swashes, terminal forms and ligatures.
Qualion™ is a sibling of Qualion Text™ — type family adjusted to fit paragraph text and small sizes best (narrower width, greater contrast, larger ink traps and tapering, adjusted spacing and kerning & even more calligraphic, elegant true italics).
#16: Fineday
By Mika Melvas
Fineday is a clean and lining brush script. It is available with two different styles of uppercases: Style One and Style Two. Style One is swashy and decorative. Style Two is more plain and straightforward. Fineday is also available with connecting and non-connecting lowercases.
All the Fineday versions have fancy alternate characters like ending swashes, tales and swashy ascenders. The family has an extended character set supporting most Central European and Eastern European languages.
#17: Unitext™
By Monotype
Created with the needs of branding design in mind, Jan Hendrik Weber’s Unitext™ is a crisp, clean typeface that functions well across print and online use. It blends humanist and grotesque qualities, adopting a style that he describes as “neo grotesque”. Featuring narrow spacing, open counters, and angled details. “The ideal font should work at every touchpoint,” says Weber. “And designers shouldn’t need an introduction or a set of rules on how to handle this typeface. Unitext™ allows designers to work without explanation.”
The Unitext™ family includes 14 styles with extensive Western, Central and Eastern European language support.
#18: HongKong
By Indian Type Foundry
HongKong is a large, futuristic-style sans serif family. The letters have straight-sides — even ‘e’ and ‘o’, for example — and the whole typeface has a rather minimalistic design.
HongKong includes 14 styles with tons of alternates.HongKong’s lowercase letters have a very tall x-height, and their ascenders rise above caps just a little bit. The family’s lighter weights feel nice and loose in text, while the heavier weights are spaced more tightly. HongKong is a great font for the tech industry, but could also be put to good use to advertise music or art.
#19: Zesta
By Indian Type Foundry
Zesta is a family of high-contrast serif fonts, intended for use in display typography. Their design is modern, or ‘Didone’ in style, meaning that its letterforms look like those used in France during the revolutionary, imperial, and restoration eras (late-1700s/early-1800s). This style of type is instantly associated with fashion and design for high-end cosmetic products. It is also used extensively in magazine design. The family includes 10 styles.
#20: Palomino
By My Creative Land
Palomino is a new modern calligraphy font family created using amazing Palomino Blackwing 602 pencils (it took 3 pencils to create the whole family!). All fonts work perfectly well together, allowing you to create stylish elegant designs with a handwritten look.
The script font is loaded with initial, medial, and terminal alternates and swashes. With the help of three other fonts (condensed sans, simple sans, and design elements), you’ll be able to create stunning designs with a click of a mouse.
Palomino Clean — a smooth digitized version of Palomino — is also available!
#21: Neurial Grotesk
By Indian Type Foundry
Neurial Grotesk is a family of 20 sans serif fonts designed in the neo-grotesk style. As a typeface, Neurial Grotesk was developed to offer maximum flexibility. Neurial Grotesk’s appearance was inspired by twentieth-century modernism and the International Style. However, it is also a heavily constructed typeface, with regularized widths, a minimum amount of stroke modulation, and little optical correction, either.
Lines of text in Neurial Grotesk look great set tightly and compact. The lowercase diacritics are positioned so that most of their tops reach just up to the top of the cap-height. Ascenders rise above this slightly, but the numerals all have the same height as the uppercase letters. The uppercase includes no descending elements — both the ‘J’ and ‘Q’ keep all of their strokes between the baseline and the cap-height. Each Neurial Grotesk font includes two different forms of the lowercase ‘a’ — one with a tail, the other without. Neat extras include Roman numerals, arrow glyphs, and a few geometric shapes, too.
#22: Codec
By Zetafonts
Codec is a geometric sans serif type system, designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini with Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli. Codec contains two coherent variant fonts built on the same base skeleton: Codec Cold and Codec Warm.
In Codec Cold, terminals are always cut parallel or perpendicular to the baseline, emphasizing geometry and giving the typeface a more constructed look. In Codec Warm, on the other hand, open diagonal cuts and two-story letterforms give the typeface a slightly more humanist look and create a gentler, warmer feeling.
Codec also includes over a hundred variant ligatures and alternates. These glyphs, usually available as discretionary ligatures, have been made permanently active in the two Codec Logo subfamilies, designed for display use and logo design. Codec Logo Cold makes the cold geometry alive with funky ligatures, while Codec Logo Warm randomly stretches characters: both allow for quick, unexpected solutions in logo design and display type treatment.
#23: Tazugane™ Info
By Monotype
Tazugane™ Info is a screen-ready Japanese font family, following the debut of Monotype’s first original Japanese typeface in 2017— Tazugane™ Gothic. This release offers a more restrained personality, with calligraphic design details pared back to create a geometric letterform — great for designers looking for a matter-of-fact alternative to the warmer Tazugane™ Gothic.
Tazugane™ Info is available in 10 styles, and includes the complete set of kanji and latin also found in Tazugane™ Gothic. It is designed for use on-screen. Although books, newspapers and magazines are traditionally set vertically in Japan, smartphones, information panels and car navigation systems are all set horizontally — and Tazugane™ Info has been tailored to this environment, featuring a new set of kana phonetic symbols.
#24: TT Rounds Neue
By TypeType
TT Rounds Neue is a new modern look at the once-popular TT Rounds and TT Rounds Condensed typefaces. The TypeType team realized that the old TT Rounds could no longer cope with the modern requirements for typefaces, and decided to completely rework them.
To begin with, they corrected the visual balance between bold and thin faces and revised the proportions of the letters. They also completely redrew all the glyphs of the typeface while significantly changing the design of some of them. Thanks to this, the typeface looks more modern and can be used even in a text set. In addition, thanks to improved hinting, the typeface is well optimized for working on the web. A new compressed subfamily was added, and major work was done on the italics taking over a year. This complete re-working now also boasts a broad array of OpenType features including ligatures, alternates, old-style figures, and more.
#25: Hangbird
By Mika Melvas
Hangbird is a modern brush script with lots of alternate characters, swashes and underlines. It is very versatile and has many options for customization. You can build up words and phrases that suit your specific needs and liking. That makes Hangbird a good choice for logos, titles and lettering pieces.
Hangbird has various alternatives for uppercase, several end swashes, connecting and non-connecting lowercase and options for ascenders and descenders. By altering these options you can have an end result that is almost like lettering.
