Favorite fonts

This post is a countinually updated list of my favorite fonts.

Because I’m lazy, I don’t include the link to a font’s home page when it can easily be found by a web search.

Love

Proxima Nova. Pleasant geometric sans-serif. Its versatility is remarkable, working incredibly well both in body text and in user interface text. [marksimonson.com]
Tamzen. Just the most beautiful monospace bitmap font; it is a fork of the original Tamsyn. This is my terminal and editor font on macOS. [github.com]
Post Grotesk. Designed by Josh Finklea; it is among my favorite Grotesque fonts. Everything about the font is stunning. I use it as the primary font on the Littleroot website. [vllg.com]
Akzidenz Grotesk. The timeless Grotesque. The licenses are now more flexible and affordable; the font is now licensed through myfonts.com. If I recall, the c. 2022 licensing method through the foundry’s bertholdtypes.com website required sending in a physically filled in order form.
Palatino, Pagella. Palatino, the stately serif, designed by Hermann Zapf and released in 1949. It is installed by default on the Amazon Kindle ereader. Pagella, the open source alternative, from the TeX Gyre collection, is just as good; I use it as my reading font on a Kobo ereader. Pagella itself is based on URW Palladio, which deserves to be mentioned.

Gotham. A geometric sans-serif. It was used brilliantly in past years in the Evernote website and apps, which, I believe, is where I first saw it. It can currently be seen in use by The Championships at Wimbledon.
Neutral. A clean sans-serif. I saw this in use on a c. 2016 version of the website https://chad.is. [typotheque.com]
-misc-fixed-* is a collection of monospace bitmap fonts from the X Window System, and the default font in the xterm terminal emulator. References and download: [wikipedia.org], [cl.cam.ac.uk]
Inter. When used right, like it is on the linked home page, this font is luscious; it is undoubtedly my favorite open source sans-serif. [rsms.me]
Inconsolata: a brilliant monospace font.
Latin Modern Roman, Computer Modern. Serif fonts from the TeX typesetting system. My words won’t do the fonts justice.

The following fonts aren’t absolute favorites but are still excellent.

Serifs

Dante. This can be seen in Penguin Books’ Great Ideas series.
Athelas was once generally available on the Mac operating system, but in recent versions of the operating system it is avaialable only in restricted contexts. Safari’s Reader View presents it as a font choice, however. [type-together.com]
Equity. The official documentation recommended the A variant for print use and the B variant for digital use (e.g. websites), but I use the A everywhere because the B variant is too thin for my liking. [mbtype.com]
Valkyrie [mbtype.com]
Bitstream Charter, Charis SIL
Linux Libertine
PT Serif

Sans-serifs

Messina Sans. I saw it on the MIT undergraduate admissions website in 2021, and it continues to be in use in 2023. The font is rather new, released only in 2015. The font’s Swiss foundry has a few other nice sans-serif fonts; for example, see Cadiz. [luzi-type.ch]
Concourse. Great for headings and interface text. Note that I prefer this font with stylistic sets ss12 and ss16 turned on. [mbtype.com]
Interstate. This is used excellently by SoundCloud. An open source alternative is Overpass.
Freight Sans
PT Sans

Accessible

Monospace

PragmataPro. Condensed monospace font with extensive support for ligatures. It was my programming font for around a year in 2021–2022 before I switched to Tamzen. [fsd.it]
Latin Modern Teletype
Courier
Iosevka. Note that stylistic set ss08 makes it match PragmataPro closely.

Display

Abril Fatface. This is available on Google Fonts, and it is showcased beautifully on hellohappy.org.
Playfair Display. Ditto.
Inter Display. See Inter above for hyperlink.