Super Families

A Super Family is a sizable package that combines two or more groups of fonts from the same family. Super families may include sans and serif versions, condensed and extended versions, or any other combination of styles found within a family. The size and depth of a Super Family gives these products uncommon range and versatility.

Broadcast your message with the Antenna™ super family font. Designer Cyrus Highsmith places a new emphasis on the repeat and variation of counter shapes with the spaces between characters.

This solid, uncomplicated design of Benton™ Sans is well suited for use in newspapers and magazines for headlines and in advertisements.

The best typeface designs always seem to begin as experiments, and Briem Akademi™ is no exception. Starting out as a simplified version of itself, Briem Akademi became the super family that it is after being perfected at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

ITC Century ITC

In 1975 International Typeface Corporation (ITC) commissioned Tony Stan to create a new family of Century with a wider range of styles. Conforming to the tastes of the day, Stan tightened the letterspacing and increased the x-height. ITC Century® is, by every definition, a font super family.

Can a typeface that’s box-like and stiff still be attractive and useful? Yes. And the Clicker™ typeface, by Greg Thompson, proves it. This super family packs a lot of dimension into all of its weights.

Mark Van Bronkhorst says he had parking lot signs in mind when he designed ITC Conduit. “It’s the kind of lettering you might find on boilers, assembly diagrams, and desiccant packets,“ he explains.

Escrow™ is a font with a purpose. It was commissioned for use by the Wall Street Journal, giving this text font an almost unprecedented amount of visibility.

Farnham Farnham

Consisting of 31 weights, ranging from light to black and spread accross both Display and Text families, the Farnham™ font family also includes swash, OSF and small cap versions.

ITC Franklin Gothic

With its conservative design sense and copyfitting usefulness, ITC Franklin Gothic™ is a typeface that has, and will continue to stand the test of time.

Freight Freight

The clean, highly legible Freight™ font has its roots firmly planted in a humanist design aesthetic, yet it finds a way to depart from the typical slab serif tradition.

Gill® Sans is a twentieth century sans serif that has a simplicity of form which does not reject traditional forms and proportions.

The first Helvetica® font was made over 50 years ago. Today, this popular and versatile collection features 51 “Neue" fonts.

The ITC Humana® typeface family is an immensly versatile suite of typefaces with an unusual array of variations, including light, medium, and bold weights of serif, sans serif and script designs.

Interstate Font Family Interstate

Based on the signage alphabets of the United States Federal Highway Administration, Interstate is a large sans serif family, now available as a complete family pack.

The warmth and energy of the Kepler super family are delivered with a hint of old style proportion and calligraphic detailing. But the concept behind Kepler is firmly rooted in the modern technology around us today.

ITC Legacy Serif can be classified as a sensitive interpretation of an earlier style, while ITC Legacy Sans could only be called an original design statement.

Like a collection of nesting dolls, the seven weights of Loft are tied together by bold structural choices. Designer Julien Janiszewski has taken 19th century design inspiration and fashioned it into an utterly contemporary and versatile family of type.

The Lucida™ suite of fonts is one of the original super families, and remains one of the largest. Designed by Holmes and Bigelow in 1985, it was developed to work on bitmapped display screens and within laser printers. In the years since, Lucida has not lost any of its importance or usefulness. It continues to perform well in situations where other fonts might not, such as fax transmission, low resolution printing, small point sizes, and reversed-out of halftones.

From book illustrations in the 1970s to book jacket lettering in the 1990s, the Mentor family of typefaces has developed along its own slow and circuitous path.

Rigidly straight lines and sturdy strokes give the Minion™ font design a gracefulness that transcends the ages.

Spanning seven weights and a suite of cursive italics, Mundo Sans serves a wide variety of purposes for designers. This depth of possibilities is what gives Mundo Sans its status as a Super Family.

Myriad Myriad Pro

The Myriad Pro typeface includes condensed, normal, and extended widths in a full range of weights. Creative professionals will appreciate the wide range of applications to be found in this one family.

Neo Sans and Neo Tech – two typeface families that leap past the cutting edge of ultra-modern design and capture the essence of tomorrow.

Nueva is a typeface with calligraphic sensibilities, and the soul of a text face. It's a star, and a Super Family, in it's own right.

The uniqueness and versatility of Ocean Sans sets it apart from a sea of other sans serif typefaces – and gives it the distinction of being truly a Super Family.

ITC Officina embodies all the qualities that a typeface Super Family should - it's a strong design carried across a variety of weights, with an almost limitless number of uses.

The all-cap Penumbra™ font's uniqueness stems from the emphasis on two of its design axes: weight and style.

Three different projects gave Serbian designer Olivera Stojadinovic the opportunity to develop variations of Resavska, a highly legible design.

The Rocky typeface's contrasting thick and thin strokes are remeniscent of all renditions of Bodoni and provides a clear-cut effect due to its simplicity. It reproduces well, particularly in sizes over 12pt.

The broad coverage Rotis provides by providing subfamilies that share weights, heights, and proportions, has earned this typeface a respected position among font Super Families.

Calm, clean, and legible, on-screen or in print. That’s Scene, a six-weight family of typefaces by Sebastian Lester that was designed with corporate identity projects in mind.

The Scout font is a quiet soldior in the world of typography. Exceptionally clean and unencumbered by bells and whistles, it can be called on for any purpose - from body text to the largest of headlines.

The Slate Complete Family Pack is available in six weights of roman, plus condensed versions of each and complementary italics for all the designs. Slight changes in style from the light to the black weights give the user maximum flexibility in the ability to combine weights for any project.

Several years in the making, the Soho™ Complete Family Pack of typefaces is the latest addition to the growing range of designs from Sebastian Lester. This package combines both the complete Soho and Soho Gothic typeface suites.

Square shoulders and clipped terminals give Stainless a sophisticated demeanor that stands out from the crowd. If you are looking for a distinctive – and exceptionally versatile – sans, the Stainless super family just might be the family for you.

Consisting of four subgroups—serif, sans serif, informal and humanistic, ITC Stone was purposely designed by Sumner Stone so that each style interrelates with the others and provides a wealth of options in one product.

Zapfino Zapfino

Zapfino is a typographic tour-de-force from one of the world’s greatest living typeface designers – and now it is available on Fonts.com.

Super Families
Super Families
Antenna
Benton Sans
Briem Akademi
ITC Century
Clicker
ITC Conduit
Escrow
Farnham
ITC Franklin Gothic
Freight
Gill Sans
Neue Helvetica
ITC Humana
Interstate
Kepler
ITC Legacy
Loft
Lucida
Mentor
Minion
Mundo Sans
Myriad
Neo
Nueva
Ocean Sans
ITC Officina
Penumbra
ITC Resavska
Rocky
Rotis
Scene
Scout
Slate
Soho
Stainless
ITC Stone
Zapfino

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