font categories

Main category
Serif
Mechanistic (Slab
serif)
Sans
Chirographic
Blackletter
Non-Latin
Pixel/bitmap
Miscellaneous
Sub category
Venetian/Humanist
Garalde
Transitional
Glyphic
Didone
Modern
Slab serif
Description
Old calligraphic style like Jenson and Centaur
More modeled like Garamond and Caslon
More mechanical like Baskerville and Times
Incized Roman types. See Trajan, Goudy Trajan
High contrast like Didot and Bodoni
Serif typefaces with a modern appearance which doesn't fit Transitional
Modern slab serif like Prensa Slab or Museo Slab
Clarendon/Ionic
Egyptienne
Humanist
Grotesque
Robust yet antique. Bracketed serifs.
Square/unbracketed serifs. More sans-like.
Calligraphic influences. See Gill Sans, Frutiger, Ideal Sans.
Robust. See Helvetica, Univers, DIN. A distinction between Grotesque (Akzidenz Grotesk)
and Neo-Grotesque (Helvetica) could be made, but the Grotesque was rather short-lived
and most of these fonts have generic names like 'Headline' or 'Grot. 6'.
Based on geometric elements. Futura, Eurostile, Nobel
Elegant writing fonts with swashes and ligatures etc.
Typical hand writing font. No scripts.
Hand-lettered sans fonts for comic books. See Comic Sans.
Handwritten serif font. See Zapf Chancery
Any font done in calligraphy (excluding blackletters)
Blackletter with detail and texture. Old English, Diploma
Typical German type. Rounded forms. See Schwabacher, Fette Deutsch
Most robust and mechanical blackletter. Fraktur, Fette Fraktur, Fakir
Most calligraphic blackletter. Frequent descenders and curved ascenders.
Most rounded blackletter. See Clemente Rotunda, San Marco.
Hybrid of Textualis and Cursiva. Bastarda is typically French. See Burgundica, Givry
Geometric
Script
Hand writing
Comic
Chancery
Calligraphy
Textualis
Schwabacher
Fraktur
Cursiva
Rotunda
Hybrida/Bastarda
Greek
Cyrillic
Armenian
Georgian
Arabic
Hebrew
Devanagari
Japanese
Chinese
Other Asian scripts
Pixel
Display
Grunge
Dingbats
Kanji, Hiragana (Kana), Katakana (Kana).
Jia-gu wen (Oracle Bone), Da zhuan (Greater Seal), Xiao zhuan (Lesser Seal), Lis shu (Cerkly
Script)
Typefaces only suitable for display use (excludes scripts and blackletters)
Any typeface with a damaged effect, or an effect at all
Icons and symbols