10 Impactful Typefaces Recommended by Filippos Fragkogiannis

Based in Athens, Filippos Fragkogiannis is a freelance graphic designer known for his clear approach to design. He strives to stay up-to-date with design trends and inspiration through his online curation work. Exclusively for our blog, Filippos has curated a selection of 10 typefaces that are guaranteed to make a lasting impact. In today’s digital age, choosing a font that sets your brand or project apart and leaves a memorable impact is more crucial than ever. We recognise that building brand awareness is essential for successful businesses, and selecting the right typeface can significantly contribute to creating a strong sense of identity. With so many great options to choose from, finding the perfect fit can be daunting. This is where Filippos’ handpicked selection comes in – it’s a great starting point for your next project that aims to get the message across in a straightforward manner.

1. Pleasure by Pizza TypefacesPleasure is a distinctive typeface created by Mothi Limbu of Flirt Studio, a design practice based in Marseille, France. The typeface includes two families, Standard and Inktrap, with weights ranging from Light to Black and corresponding italics. Pleasure’s non-conformist approach and well-balanced letterforms imbue it with a sense of wit. Adrien Midzic of Pizza Typefaces expanded and refined the entire character set to support all Latin languages in just one year. Midzic also developed a variable version of this versatile type family, allowing users to effortlessly adjust three axes – weight, inktrap, and italic – to their liking.

2. Mint Grotesk by Lift TypeMint Grotesk is a sophisticated sans-serif typeface designed by Sebastien Sanfilippo and published by Lift Type, a type foundry based in the French city of Montpellier. With 16 weights to choose from, Mint Grotesk offers a wide range of options, including stylistic alternates, tabular figures, visually striking arrows, and pictograms. Mint Grotesk Display, with its high contrast and stylish details, is particularly suitable for larger text. Sanfilippo’s typography expertise is evident in his previous works, such as Bagnard, Blimey, and Tatras, which are subtly reflected in Mint Grotesk’s impeccable legibility and refined details.

3. A2Z Faucet by Daniel SchriërA2Z Faucet is a versatile grotesk typeface crafted by Daniel Schriër, a graphic and type designer based in Montreal, Canada. The typeface offers nine weights with stylistic and tilted alternates, standard and discretionary ligatures, circled numbers, case-sensitive symbols, and other features. A2Z Faucet combines classic forms with playful details to deliver a bold and distinctive design suitable for various design applications. After over a year of dedicated work and revisions, the first version of A2Z Faucet is now available for purchase on Schriër’s website. Consider leveraging the slanted brackets or tilted alternates to add some personality and dynamism to your designs.

4. Autre Display by Christian GruberAutre Display is a contemporary serif typeface, carefully crafted by Christian Gruber, an independent graphic and type designer from Halle, Germany. Released in 2022, it is the first part of the Autre type family, which is in development. With 532 glyphs and a variety of OpenType features, Autre Display offers complete control over its serifs and oblique angle, making it a versatile and expressive two-axis variable typeface. It includes stylish ligatures, symbols, punctuation, and mathematical symbols. Its high-contrast shapes, stylistic alternates, and true italics make it suitable for a wide range of design projects, including logotypes, visual identities, and editorial designs. You can purchase Autre Display from Scifipoetry.

5. SuperBlue by ReType FoundryReType Foundry’s SuperBlue is a highly legible sans-serif typeface designed by Seán Sebastian Donohoe, a Danish type designer and sign painter. Drawing from his sign-painting skills, Donohoe used two flat brushes to create SuperBlue’s basic forms, resulting in a spontaneous yet traditional appearance. Its extensive character set includes small caps, fractions, case-sensitive forms, and six sets of numerals, with support for standard Latin, Central European, Baltic, and Turkic languages. SuperBlue’s friendly lettershapes make it particularly well-suited for creating relaxed and playful designs, including children’s books, video games, apps, clothing, toys, food packaging, and greeting cards. SuperBlue is now available for purchase on ReType Foundry’s website.

6. Saes Grotesk by W Type FoundrySaes Grotesk is a striking typeface designed by Diego Aravena Silo and published in 2021 by W Type Foundry. Taking inspiration from the first sans-serif typefaces of the 19th century, Saes Grotesk offers a total of 18 styles, including matching italics and a variable option. This versatile type family features letter endings like “a,” “c,” or “e” that project slightly further, giving it a contemporary edge while still preserving its vintage charm. Encapsulating an organic vibe and playful aspects, Saes Grotesk is designed to appeal to a wide range of design applications, from editorial design and advertising to digital media and beyond. It’s also an excellent complement to Diego Aravena Silo’s other recent typeface releases, such as Gallos and Adorno Noveau.

7. CX80 by 205TFCX80 is an incredibly versatile typeface available at 205TF. This release combines four distinct types of serifs, including sans serifs, triangular serifs, sharp rectangular serifs, and smooth rectangular serifs, in a single font, resulting in up to 256 variations for each letter. This feature provides the user with ample freedom to experiment with various combinations or select one of the four basic styles corresponding to each serif type. Despite its intentionally economic design, CX80 possesses unique potential, particularly with the ability to adjust its weight using variable font technology. Designed by Damien Gautier, CX80‘s modular and composite appearance reveals its sources of inspiration, which are vernacular typographical forms produced by amateurs and industrial designers.

8. Mackay by René BiederMackay is a robust transitional serif typeface designed by René Bieder, an independent type and graphic designer based in Berlin. This typeface is suitable for both print and screen, and it is available in six weights, each with corresponding italics. The uppercase letters of Mackay draw inspiration from Alexander Kay’s “Ronaldson” from 1884 and feature eccentric serifs that form the basis for the entire typeface family. Meanwhile, the lowercase letters follow the traditional Antiqua model, with design attributes dating back to early 20th-century drawings. These design elements combine to create a bold and compact appearance. Besides its sharp design, Mackay also features a range of OpenType features, such as case-sensitive shapes, old-style figures, fractions, ordinals, and others.

9. T1 Korium by T1 FoundryT1 Korium is a contemporary sans-serif type family designed by Valerio Monopoli, comprising of five different cuts and utilising variable font technology. This versatile typeface is perfect for a wide range of design projects, thanks to its adaptability. T1 Korium draws inspiration from the hazardous lava-like substance ‘corium,’ created during nuclear reactor meltdowns, and incorporates symbols and characters often associated with nuclear plant settings, such as wayfinding arrows, atom, biohazard, and radioactivity symbols, chemical signs, and more. With a total glyph set of 625 characters, including uppercase and lowercase letters, punctuation, old-style numbers, symbols, and fractions, T1 Korium is well-equipped to handle any design project. It is available from Type Department or T1 Foundry, the type foundry launched by TYPE 01.

10. Rules by Blaze TypeRules is a contemporary interpretation of the neo-grotesque font era, designed by Matthieu Salvaggio and Léon Hugues and available through their type foundry, Blaze Type. Drawing inspiration from Swiss Modern typography and built upon a strong typographic foundation, the typeface features modern capitals with optically-matching widths, along with minimal contrast in counter-forms and closed terminals that add an elegant twist to optical gray in text layouts. The Rules type family is complemented with squared endings that impart a sense of rhythm and flow throughout. Designed with a focus on body text in print, web, and app usage, this neo-grotesque performs exceptionally well as a main headline and is recommended for use on posters and signage systems.

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