Making it a very popular and highly used typeface in the works of architecture and design and as a competitor for Futura. The iconic architectural photographer Julius Schulman and Dion Neutra also participated in the process. Graphic designer Christian Schwartz created this font in honor of the world renowned modernist architect Richard Neutra. So adopt this font for titles, subtitles and short paragraphs on your architectural boards and drawings.
It’s best however to avoid using this for long text, as it can it certain circumstances appear over powering and visually distracting. Similar to Din 1451 this is inspired by Bauhaus techniques, and uses straight lines and curves that provide balance when used in short paragraph grouping. FuturaĬreated by Paul Renner in the 1920s, this font is a favorite for architects with its classic modern design. Released in 2000 by Hoefler and Frere-Jones, this clean and modern sans serif typeface was inspired by the lettering found on the architecture of New York City, and has become one of the most popular fonts for designers over the last 13 years. Produced by the American type designer Morris Fuller Benton (1872–1948) in 1902, it reflects and speaks of confidence, boldness and expressiveness.įranklin Gothic has more character than other sans serif fonts, and works best when accompanying a more subtle and sensitive font, forming either the title or sub-titles of text. This results in the type becoming more of a shape on the page and presentation board. It has strong characteristics that make it perfect for architectural use, the first is its condensed nature, that’s means the font creates a strong mass and form when used as text in paragraphs.
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The below selection of 9 fonts are the fonts that we have had the most success with, and that we feel can be used in just about any architectural situation.Ī few of them are paid fonts, and so if don’t wont to pay and cant find a free version hiding somewhere, then Google have a huge array of free fonts where you’ll be able to find something similar here DIN 1451ĭesigned in 1931 for the German standards body DIN – Deutsches Institut für Normung (German Institute for Standardization) – this font uses all of the principles of the Bauhaus and as a result has not dated in anyway. It explores the way the font affects our daily lives and invites everyone to take a second look at the thousands of words written in it that we see and experience every day. It’s an obvious one to font nerds but when you’re pressed for time and/or struggling to find the perfect scenario, Helvetica will rarely let you down.įor those that haven’t come across this font before, there is an excellent film about typography, graphic design and visual culture, that looks at the proliferation of Helvetica. Hopefully you have never experienced a architectural presentation written in Comic Sans! but we can almost guarantee that you have seen (maybe even without knowing) a lot in Helvetica. This is particularly relevant when a project is publically presented and on show, or for competitions and critiques where the work presented is assessed without its author present.
In terms of architecture, fonts form a fundamental graphic communication device for presentations with nonverbal reading. Today however with digital typography now very dominant, the term font is more commonly associated with/to a typeface, where each font file is a different design.įor example the typeface “ Futura” may include the fonts “ Futura light”, “ Futura italic”, “ Futura bold” and “ Futura extended”, but the term “font” might be applied either to one of these on their own or to the Futura font as a whole.Īs well as the above variations (light, italic and bold), fonts can be categorized by their type of box (higher and lower case), by source, Sans – serif (without serif), Serif (with serif), Script (cursive) and Dingbat (ornamental), in addition to numerous other identity features of the same style. The typeface would consist of a range of these fonts that would all share the overall design (the typeface).
The term font comes from metal typesetting and was a specific size, weight and style of a typeface. So here we offer a list of our favorite fonts (and the ones that we consider to be the best) that will hopefully help you to decide a little quicker and stop the endless scrolling through all the “free” font sites! Choosing the right font for your next or current architecture project can be a timely and stressful process, especially if you don’t already have a few go to options.Ī good or bad font can make or break a presentation and severally contribute to its level of engagement.
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