200 Font Collections by Letter Shape

The first of ten posts with collections of Rentafont fonts, described in different ways.

5 min readAug 8, 2018

One of the main advantages of Rentafont is a Font Serch with a very detailed font description base, consisting of ~12,000 unique keywords and options. More than 3000 fonts with Latin and Cyrillic are described in this way. Each font style contains a semantic core of ~450 tags in 50 categories in Russian, English, Ukrainian.

This data will be useful in training of designers and artificial intelligence. If you generate a design using algorithms or neural networks, based on parametric creative brief, you will need fonts that are relevant to different activities, technical parameters and features of the target audience.

To check if there is a necessary description, use the text search in your browser. If you don’t find what you looking for, please write in the comments.

Typographic Classification

Sans serif (1651 fonts)
Chopped (1534 fonts)
Grotesque (1531 fonts)
Sans serif font (1515 fonts)
Gothic typeface (1515 fonts)
Display font (1510 fonts)
Serif (935 fonts)
Serif font (915 fonts)
Cursive (795 fonts)
Superfamily (652 fonts)
Antiqua (616 fonts)
Geometric sans (603 fonts)
Decorative (591 fonts)
Modular (582 fonts)
Slab serif (409 fonts)
Ductal (405 fonts)
Decorative font (390 fonts)
Monolinear (377 fonts)
Humanist sans serif (370 fonts)
Handwritten (318 fonts)
Script (279 fonts)
Script font (279 fonts)
Calligraphy (279 fonts)
Calligraphic font (279 fonts)
Glyptal (246 fonts)
Modern sans serif (226 fonts)
Woodtype (212 fonts)
Transitional serif (187 fonts)
Calligraphic (180 fonts)
Humanist serif (175 fonts)
Old style serif (175 fonts)
Latin style (158 fonts)
Block letters (155 fonts)
Old style sans serif (146 fonts)
Stressed sans (109 fonts)
Geometric slab (91 fonts)
Handwriting (87 fonts)
Monospaced (82 fonts)
Console (75 fonts)
Modern serif (74 fonts)
Classicism serif (73 fonts)
Humanist slab serif (64 fonts)
Monospaced sans serif (61 fonts)
Semi sans (58 fonts)
High contrast sans (58 fonts)
Non-alphabetic (56 fonts)
Serifless serif (55 fonts)
Stencil (54 fonts)
Didone (48 fonts)
Scotch modern serif (45 fonts)
Clarendon (44 fonts)
Blackletters (41 fonts)
Garaldes (41 fonts)
Venetian serif (33 fonts)
Straight cursive (29 fonts)
Ornamental (29 шрифтов)
English old style serif (24 fonts)
Egyptian font (24 fonts)
Poluustav (23 fonts)
Ustav (21 fonts)
Typewriter (18 fonts)
Vyaz (17 fonts)
Spencerian (15 fonts)
Dutch old style serif (11 fonts)
Pixel (8 fonts)
Font for display (7 fonts)
Italian cursive (6 fonts)
Italian font (6 fonts)
Ocr (3 fonts)
Fractura (2 fonts)
Devanagari (1 fonts)

Proportions

Geometric font (1037 fonts)
Geometric proportions (1037 fonts)
Humanistic proportions (1018 fonts)
Humanist typeface (984 fonts)
Monospaced font (80 fonts)

Capacity

Compact (1157 fonts)
Capacious (1156 fonts)
High capacity (1156 fonts)
Medium capacity (1003 fonts)
Disperse (934 fonts)
Low capacity (934 fonts)

Ovals

Round O (979 fonts)
Oval O (979 fonts)
Almost oval O (902 fonts)
Almost round O (902 fonts)
Very straightened O (423 fonts)
Straightened O (310 fonts)
Straightened O (310 fonts)

Serifs

Slab serif (409 fonts)
Wedge serif (295 fonts)
Sharp serifs (219 fonts)
Triangular serifs (218 fonts)
Classic serifs (167 fonts)
Linear serifs (156 fonts)
Thin serifs (152 fonts)
Hairline serif (151 fonts)
Asymmetrical serifs (147 fonts)
Oldstyle serif (76 fonts)
Concave serifs (76 fonts)
Delicate serifs (68 fonts)
Rounded serifs (61 fonts)
Flared serif (45 fonts)
Forked serifs (7 fonts)
Tuscan serif (7 fonts)

Stress Axis

Vertical axis (569 fonts)
Vertical stress axis (569 fonts)
Medium axis slope (142 fonts)
Medium stress axis slope (142 fonts)
Light stress axis slope (113 fonts)
Strong axis slope (48 fonts)
Strong stress axis slope (48 fonts)

Calligraphic Tool

Ductal font (405 fonts)
Hand drawn (203 fonts)
Felt tip pen (149 fonts)
Pen (129 fonts)
Brush (126 fonts)
Marker (115 fonts)
Liner (91 fonts)
Flat brush (75 fonts)
Broad nib pen (50 fonts)
Pointed pen (47 fonts)
Copperplate (45 fonts)
English pen (45 fonts)
Round brush (36 fonts)

Angle

Upright style (2050 fonts)
Medium slope (880 fonts)
Light slope (265 fonts)
Canted font (64 fonts)
Strong slope (43 fonts)
Reverse slope (13 fonts)

Weight

Normal weight (906 fonts)
Light (822 fonts)
Bold (806 fonts)
Semibold (729 fonts)
Thin (577 fonts)
Heavy (505 fonts)
Extralight (369 fonts)
Extrabold (328 fonts)
Extra light (106 fonts)
Semi bold (51 fonts)

Contrast

Noncontrast (1353 fonts)
Very low contrast (1344 fonts)
Medium contrast (590 fonts)
Weak contrast (530 fonts)
Low contrast (526 fonts)
Above average contrast (244 fonts)
High contrast (235 fonts)
Maximum contrast (107 fonts)
Very high contrast (106 fonts)

Width

Normal width (2139 fonts)
Compressed (539 fonts)
Narrow (500 fonts)
Wide (371 fonts)
Expanded (371 fonts)
Very compressed (283 fonts)
Extracondensed (283 fonts)
Condensed (201 fonts)
Extra wide (72 fonts)
Very expanded (72 fonts)
Very wide (72 fonts)

Aperture

Normal aperture (1156 fonts)
Medium aperture (1156 fonts)
Open (1066 fonts)
Closed (902 fonts)
Very closed (714 fonts)
Very open (158 fonts)

X-height

Normal x-height (1997 fonts)
Medium lowercase (1997 fonts)
Large x-height (1192 fonts)
Unicase (263 fonts)
All uppercase (261 fonts)
Only uppercase (259 fonts)
Small x-height (229 fonts)
Small lowercase (228 fonts)

Edge Quality

Neat edge (2383 fonts)
Complicated edge (304 fonts)
Decorative edge (304 fonts)
Rounded edge (268 fonts)
Dirty edge (154 fonts)
Rough edge (153 fonts)
Texture (143 fonts)
Raised (90 fonts)
Shadow (90 fonts)
Contour (72 fonts)
Cutting-out (40 fonts)
Striped (32 fonts)
Inverted letters (25 fonts)
Volume (15 fonts)
Linocut (13 fonts)
Perforation (13 fonts)

Additional Elements

Ligatures (2038 fonts)
Minuscule figures (1078 fonts)
Oldstyle figures (1078 fonts)
Alternative glyphs (881 fonts)
Small capitals (725 fonts)
Swashes (173 fonts)

These collections are answers to single keyword search queries. Rentafont’s unique search engine consists of 4 groups of filters and verbal descriptions that repeat and significantly supplement these filters:

1. Search by shape. Do you have good visual memory and clearly visualize how the font you need should look like? Then, you can find it by its special features. For example, boldness, serif type, stroke contrast etc.

2. Associative search. What are the feelings and associations that the fonts you need provoke? If your client wants to see “good,” “sporty,” or “feminine” font on the packaging, you can find it by gender, temperament, nationality, and other features.

3. Application in design. You are a designer, and font is your tool. Then, you know that one font works better for headlines, and the other for body text, while the third is exceptional for infographic. Look for the fonts, which suit your specific task.

4. History and origin. Are you a connoisseur of font art? Then you can easily find the required font by its author, studio, year of creation or its place in history.

5. Traditional text search. Enter the font name or any keyword in the search line and enjoy classical search option. Here you can even find your font by the brand where it was used (Nike, Panasonic, Skype), by number of styles etc.

To get an access to the full updatable database of font descriptions, font search API, data-sets for machine-learning, write to info@rentafont.com.