List of sans serif typefaces

This list of sans-serif typefaces details standard sans-serif fonts used in classical typesetting and printing.

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Samples of sans-serif typefaces
Typeface name Example 1 Example 2 Example 3
Agency FB
Designer: Caleigh Huber & Morris Fuller Benton
Class: Geometric
     
Akzidenz-Grotesk
Designer: Günter Gerhard Lange
Class: Grotesque
     
Amplitude
Designer: Christian Schwartz
Class: Humanist
 
Andalé Sans
Designer: Steve Matteson
Class: Humanist
 
Antique Olive
Designer: Roger Excoffon
Class: Humanist
 
Aptos
Designer: Steve Matteson
Class: Neo-grotesque
 
Archivo
Designer: Héctor Gatti, Omnibus Type
Class: Grotesque
     
Arial
Designer: Robin Nicholas & Patrica Saunders
Class: Neo-grotesque
     
Arial Rounded    
Austria
Class: Geometric
 
ITC Avant Garde Gothic
Designer: Herb Lubalin, Tom Carnase
Class: Geometric
     
Avenir
Designer: Adrian Frutiger
Class: Geometric
     
Bahnschrift
Designer: Microsoft
Class: Geometric
     
Bank Gothic
Designer: Morris Fuller Benton
Class: Geometric
     
Bell Centennial
Designer: Matthew Carter
Class: Humanist
     
Bell Gothic
Designer: Chauncey H. Griffith
Class: Grotesque
     
Benguiat Gothic
Designer: Ed Benguiat
Class: Humanist
     
Bobcaygeon
Designer: Brian Kent(designer)
Class: Geometric
     
Breeze Sans
Designer: Dalton Maag, Fontrix
Class: Humanist
 
Calibri
Designer: Lucas de Groot
Class: Humanist
     
Candara
Designer: Gary Munch
Class: Humanist
     
Cantarell
Designer: Dave Crossland
Class: Humanist
     
Caractères
Class: Grotesque
 
Century Gothic
Class: Geometric
     
Charcoal (Mac OS 9 system font)
Designer: David Berlow
     
Chicago (pre-Mac OS 9 system font, still included with Mac OS X)
Designer: Susan Kare
     


Adobe Clean - Adobe's now standard GUI and icon font
Class: Humanist, Spurless
   
Clear Sans (Intel)
Designer: Dan Rhatigan, George Ryan, Robin Nicholas
     
Clearview
Designer: James Montalbano et al.
Class: Humanist
   
Comic Neue
Designer: Craig Rozynski, Hrant Papazian
     
Comic Sans
Designer: Vincent Connare
     
Consolas
Designer: Luc(as) de Groot
Class: Humanist
     
Corbel
Designer: Jeremy Tankard
Class: Humanist
     
FF Dax
Designer: Hans Reichel
Class: Humanist, Spurless
     
DejaVu Sans
Class: Humanist
     
DIN 1451
Designer: Deutsches Institut für Normung
Class: Grotesque, Geometric
     
Drogowskaz
Designer: Marek Sigmund
Class: Geometric
     
Droid Sans
Designer: Steve Matteson
Class: Humanist
     
Dubai
Designer: Nadine Chahine (chief designer)
Class: Humanist, Semi-spurless
     
Eras
Designer: Albert Boton, Albert Hollenstein
Class: Humanist
     
Eurostile
Designer: Aldo Novarese, Akira Kobayashi
Class: Geometric
     
e-Ukraine
Designer: Dmytro Rastvortsev
Class: Neo-grotesque
 
Fira Sans
Designer: Erik Spiekermann, Ralph du Carrois
Class: Humanist
     
Folio
Designer: Konrad Bauer & Walter Baum
Class: Neo-grotesque
 
Franklin Gothic
Designer: Morris Fuller Benton
Class: Grotesque
     
Frutiger
Designer: Adrian Frutiger
Class: Humanist
     
Futura
Designer: Paul Renner
Class: Geometric
     
Geneva
Designer: Susan Kare
Class: Grotesque
     
Gerstner Programm
Designer: Karl Gerstner
Class: Neo-grotesque
 
Gill Sans
Designer: Eric Gill
Class: Humanist
     
Gotham
Designer: Tobias Frere-Jones
Class: Geometric
   
Grand Slang
Designer: Nikolas Wrobel
Class: Calligraphic
     
Haettenschweiler
Designer: Walter Haettenschweiler
Class: Grotesque
     
Handel Gothic
Designer: Don Handel, Ronald Trogram
Class: Geometric, Spurless
     
HarmonyOS Sans
Designer: Huawei
Class: Geometric
   
Helvetica
Designer: Max Miedinger, Eduard Hoffman
Class: Neo-grotesque
     
Highway Gothic
Designer: Ted Forbes
Class: Neo-grotesque
     
IBM Plex Sans
Designer: Mike Abbink
Class: Grotesque
     
Impact
Designer: Geoffrey Lee
Class: Grotesque
     
Interstate
Designer: Tobias Frere-Jones
Class: Mixed
 
Inter
Designer: Rasmus Andersson
Class: Neo-grotesque
 
GE Inspira
Designer: Mike Abbink
Class: Geometric
     
Johnston
Designer: Edward Johnston, Eric Gill
Class: Humanist
     
Kabel
Designer: Rudolf Koch
Class: Geometric
     
Karrik
Designer: Jean-Baptiste Morizot, Lucas Le Bihan
Class: Grotesque
     
Klavika
Designer: Eric Olson
Class: Humanist, Geometric
 
Lato
Designer: Łukasz Dziedzic
Class: Humanist
     
Liberation Sans
Designer: Steve Matteson
Class: Grotesque
   
Libre Franklin
Designer: Impallari Type
 
Linux Biolinum
Designer: Philipp Poll
 
Lucida Grande (former Mac OS X system font, used from Mac OS X 10.0 to Mac OS X 10.9)
Designer: Charles Bigelow, Kris Holmes
Class: Humanist
   
Lucida Sans
Designer: Charles Bigelow, Kris Holmes
Class: Humanist
     
FS Me
Designer: Jason Smith
Class: Humanist
 
FF Meta
Designer: Erik Spiekermann
Class: Humanist
     
Microsoft Sans Serif
Designer: Microsoft
Class: Neo-grotesque
     
Montserrat
Designer: Julieta Ulanovsky, Sol Matas, Juan Pablo del Peral, and Jacques Le Bailly
Class: geometric
   
Myriad
Designer: Robert Slimbach, Carol Twombly
Class: Humanist
     
National Trust
Designer: Paul Barnes
Class: Humanist
 
News Gothic
Designer: Morris Fuller Benton
Class: Grotesque
     
Neuzeit S
Designer: Arthur Ritzel
Class: Geometric, Grotesque
 
Nokia Pure
Designer: Dalton Maag, Vincent Connare
Class: Neo-grotesque
 
Noto Sans
Designer: Google
Class: Humanist
     
Nunito Sans
Designer: Vernon Adams
Class: Neo-grotesque
OCR-B
Designer: Adrian Frutiger
Class: Neo-grotesque
     
Open Sans
Designer: Steve Matteson
Class: Humanist
     
Optima
Designer: Hermann Zapf
Class: Humanist
     
Overpass
Designer: Delve Witherington
Class: Mixed
     
Oxygen
Designer: Vernon Adams
   
Proxima Nova
Designer: Mark Simonson
Class: Geometric-grotesque
     
Radis Sans
Designer: Gaël Goy
Class: Geometric
   
Rail Alphabet
Designer: Margaret Calvert, Jock Kinneir
Class: Neo-grotesque
 
Raleway
Designer: Matt McInerney
Class: Geometric
Roboto
Designer: Christian Robertson
Class: Neo-grotesque
     
San Francisco
Class: Neo-grotesque
   
FF Scala Sans
Designer: Martin Majoor
Class: Humanist
 
Segoe UI (2009)
Designer: Steve Matteson
Class: Humanist
   
Segoe UI (2012)
Designer: Steve Matteson
Class: Humanist
 
Selawik
Designer: Microsoft
Class: Humanist
     
Semplicità
Designer: Nebiolo
Class: Geometric, spurless
 
Seravek
Designer: Eric Olson
Class: Humanist
 
Skia
Designer: Matthew Carter
Class: Humanist, Spurless
     
OnePlus Slate
Designer: Rod McDonald (typographer)
Class: Humanist
     
SNV
Designer: Association of Swiss Road Traffic Experts
Class: Geometric, Neo-grotesque
 
Solare
Designer: Nikolas Wrobel
Class: Grotesque
     
Source Sans Pro
Designer: Paul D. Hunt
Class: Grotesque
     
Sweden Sans
Class: Geometric
     
Syntax
Designer: Hans Eduard Meier
Class: Humanist
   
Tahoma
Designer: Matthew Carter
Class: Humanist
     
Thesis Sans
Designer: Lucas de Groot
Class: Humanist
   
Tiresias
Designer: RNIB
Class: Humanist
     
Trade Gothic
Designer: Jackson Burke
Class: Grotesque
     
Transport
Designer: Jock Kinneir, Margaret Calvert
Class: Mixed
   
Tratex
Designer: Karl-Gustav Gustafson
Class: Geometric
   
Trebuchet MS
Designer: Vincent Connare
Class: Humanist
     
Twentieth Century
Designer: Sol Hess
Class: Geometric
 
Ubuntu
Designer: Dalton Maag
Class: Humanist, Spurless
     
Unica
Designer: Team ’77 (André Gürtler, Christian Mengelt and Erich Gschwind)
Class: Neo-grotesque
 
Univers
Designer: Adrian Frutiger
Class: Neo-grotesque
     
Universalis
Designer: Arkandis
Class: Geometric
     
VAG Rounded
Designer: Gerry Barney et al.
Class: Geometric
     
Vera Sans
Designer: Jim Lyles
Class: Humanist
     
Vercetti Regular
Designer: Filippos Fragkogiannis, Richard Mandona
Class: Humanist, Geometric
     
Verdana
Designer: Matthew Carter
Class: Humanist
     
Whitney
Designer: Tobias Frere-Jones
Class: Humanist
 

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