Available in an expansive 20 styles, the Heron Sans family – designed by Font Bureau’s Cyrus Highsmith – is a structural sans serif offering. Strong without appearing too industrial or cold, the typeface possesses modern, yet approachable, letterforms.

Exceptionally readable as a body text face, as well as legible for large display applications, Heron Sans is available in light, regular, medium, semibold, and bold weights; the typeface also features a condensed width featuring the same weights. In addition, both styles possess matching italic designs.

A true workhorse family, OpenType formats of Heron Sans feature over 500 characters per font weight, and provide Western and Eastern European language support. All 20 styles of Heron Sans are available for desktop licensing from Fonts.com; if intrigued by this functional and robust family, Highsmith has also designed a sister typeface – the Heron Serif designs.

Available in a comprehensive 17 styles, the Flexo family from Durotype is a slender, yet strong square sans collection. Designed by Ben Blom, Flexo comports itself well – commanding attention while not appearing visually overbearing.

Flexo’s thin weight is airy, yet quite legible, while the typeface’s heavy and black weights provide considerable heft for headline or display communications. Despite its unmistakably modern aesthetic, the Flexo family’s square serif design also maintains an influence of well-crafted, curved humanist strokes that imbue the typefaces with an outgoing, cordial demeanor.

Enhancing the collection’s versatility, each weight of Flexo possesses a limber italic complement. Additionally, the Flexo collection is also available in light, regular, medium, demi and bold weights.

Designed by Alejandro Paul, the Ministry Script typeface is an effervescent addition to the Sudtipos foundry’s oeuvre. Deftly illustrating Paul’s skill as a designer of graceful faces, Ministry Script draws inspiration from the energetic aesthetics of 1920’s advertising and signage typography.

The typeface possesses an unmistakable fluidity and motion – it’s refined while still retaining a sociable, friendly aesthetic – perfect for both formal and casual communications alike.

Featuring over 1000 characters – including ligatures, stylistic alternates and swash characters – Ministry Script is available for desktop licensing, as well as for Web use through the Fonts.com Web Fonts Service.

Designed by Gert Wiescher, and released through his namesake foundry Wiescher Design, the Geometa typeface family is one of multifaceted aesthetics.

The Rounded, Deco, and Rounded Deco styles of Geometa each have a distinct character about themselves, yet together the family offers a collection of designs that can be mixed and interchanged effortlessly.

Geometa’s Rounded Light style recalls the more radical geometric forms of Paul Renner’s original Futura designs – with severe angles and abstracted letterform alternates. The Deco and Deco Light designs feature decorative flourished strokes, adding an elegant air to the otherwise clean sans serif design. Geometa’s Rounded Bold, Deco Bold and Rounded Deco Bold are jauntier – their designs are similar in spirit to the genial, buoyant qualities of ITC’s plump Frankfurter family.

Opportunities to combine the complementary designs offer a multitude of display application possibilities. Available in eight OpenType styles, the Geometa collection is available for desktop licensing as well as through the Fonts.com Web Fonts Service.

From Type Innovations, the Contax Sans collection is composed of 14 typefaces featuring dignified, flared letterforms designed by Alex Kaczun.

With an impressive range of weights, from a lithe ultra thin to the confident ultra black, the Contax Sans family remains stately while still retaining great readability. Other styles include thin, light, regular, medium, bold and black weights, and all have matching italics available as well.

The Contax Sans collection is available for desktop licensing (in both OpenType Standard and OpenType Pro formats) as well as for Web use through the Fonts.com Web Fonts Service. If you enjoy the Contax Sans family, be sure to try out its sister design – Contax – available in 19 versatile weights.

A collection of eight styles, TypeTogether’s Abril Text family is a handsome transitional design featuring regular, semibold, bold and extra bold weights in addition to refined italic complements.

A design from Veronika Burian, Abril Text’s regular and semibold weights are exceptionally readable, and thus excellent choices for extended selections of body text. The family’s bold and extra bold weights have an honest, trustworthy look about them, while easily holding their own for headline applications.

Abril Text is available for desktop licensing as well as through the Fonts.com Web Fonts Service. Also, if you enjoy the Abril Text family, make sure to view its sister designs – Abril Display and Fatface – for a complete typographic system. These companion designs are available in eight and two styles, respectively.

A quirky, hand-drawn Didone typeface from Yellow Design Studio, the Skitch family offers a truly unique character for your typographic communications.

Designed by Ryan Martinson, in addition to typefaces with typical Latin characters, the Skitch collection also provides an assortment of border and ornament fonts to add creative flair to designs.

Both the text and decorative fonts of the Skitch collection are available in three distinct styles – regular, solid, and shaded. Regular is, in fact, more akin to outlined type designs, while Skitch Solid is similar to traditional filled typefaces. Skitch Shaded is perhaps the most interesting style of the group, providing a crosshatched, textural design perfect for adding dimension to your typesettings. For the most complete range of visual depth, consider mixing and matching Skitch’s three styles.

As for the supplementary designs, Skitch Borders provides an assortment of frames, badges and star bursts, while Skitch Ornaments offer swashing decorative flourishes to reinforce the energetic spirit of this peppy type family.

The Skitch family is available for desktop licensing, as well as through the Fonts.com Web Fonts Service.

Channeling the aesthetics of poster display type from the 1960s, the Revolution Gothic family possesses a decidedly resolute and vintage flair. Designed by Ryoichi Tsunekawa of the Flat-it type foundry, the Revolution Gothic design is an expansion of Tsunekawa’s previous singular typeface PAG Revolucion.

The gently rounded strokes of this updated collection are appealing to the eye without sacrificing the authority the typeface projects. Designed with five weights, from the wiry extra light to a strapping extra bold offering, Revolution Gothic also provides matching italic designs for a total of 10 available styles.

Created by Volker Schnebel for URW++, the Justus typeface family is a dexterous slab serif design. Whereas many slab serif offerings can be hulking or visually imposing, Justus remains aesthetically balanced: humanist-inspired curves (as well as hints of neo-grotesque geometry) allow the family is to convey communication efficiently while still appearing good-humored.

This OpenType Pro collection is available in thin, light, regular, medium and bold styles; the Justus family also provides matching italics for each weight. This family is well-suited for corporate branding, as well as for body copy in both print and online arenas.

Another design from Flat-it’s Ryoichi Tsunekawa, the Controller family is an all-inclusive collection which summons a forward thinking, futuristic character. Tsunekawa’s consideration of Controller’s letterforms – allowing the strokes to be slightly rounded – alleviates the designs appearing too mechanistic.

This square serif collection is designed in five weights, each with a matching oblique, making it an incredibly flexible choice for display typography, but it also succeeds when used in small blocks of body text or captions.

Furthermore, five additional extended width designs – and their matching oblique counterparts – are also available, making Controller an acutely agile typographic family.

Unlike many similar typefaces, the Calligri collection is a complete script system: featuring an expansive 20 weights and widths, these designs from SummitType are not only exceptionally elegant, but extremely adaptable as well.

Exquisite for major formal communications – weddings, galas, or other special events – Calligri is equally suited for more reserved applications, such as Web and fine stationery design.

Available in regular, condensed, extra condensed, expanded, and extra expanded widths, each contains regular and bold weights in addition to matching italic designs. Calligri is available for desktop licensing, as well as through the Fonts.com Web Fonts Service.

Designed by Gerard Unger for TypeTogether, the Coranto 2 collection offers designs well-suited for newspaper and book design applications. Coranto’s letterforms possess the hallmarks of handsome classical typography, but with hints of a more modern styling, including glyphs with subtly angled crossbars.

The Coranto collection is available seven styles, including: regular, italic, bold, bold italic, headline, headline semibold, and headline bold. OpenType features, such as old style figures and ligatures, add to the gracefulness and utility of the typeface.

The entire Coranto family is available for desktop licensing as well as for Web use through the Fonts.com Web Fonts Service.