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Best New Fonts of 2020

January 11, 2021

2020 came and went, leaving behind some truly great and inspiring releases. Take a moment and look back with us as we wrap the year and ring in the new.


While the year was challenging we saw some fonts rouse our spirits. Our team picked 10 BEST NEW FONTS of 2020 based on what our FontShop customers liked!!!


For nearly 90 years, Paul Renner’s Futura has been as popular as it is versatile—from children’s books to fashion magazines to the plaque on the Moon.

Futura is a typographic icon. Futura Now offers designers a chance to see Futura with fresh eyes. It’s more truly Futura-like than any digital version you’ve ever worked with. “It brings some much-needed humanity back to the world of geometric sans serifs,” says Steve Matteson, Monotype’s Creative Type Director who led the design team.

“Despite its reputation as the ultimate modern typeface, Futura Now is surprisingly warm,” he explains. “It’s just as at home set next to a leafy tree as it is next to a stainless-steel table, because it skillfully navigates the border between super-clean geometry and humanist warmth.

Styles: 107
Single Style: starting at 49 USD
Packages: starting at 199 USD
Published by:Monotype

Futura Now Complete Family Pack: 699 USD 50% OFF—349.50 USD
Buy Futura Now


Mixta is a contemporary serif typeface with characteristic and defined features. This font was inspired by the idea of mixing different types of terminals in order to give the font a singular appearance. Its design is composed of diverse styles such as Didone and contemporary faces.

Styles: 32
Single Style: starting at 29 USD
Packages: starting at 179 USD
Published by: Latinotype

Mixta Complete Family Pack: 230 USD 50% OFF—115 USD
Buy Mixta


Spock has a neutral and clean structure but as we explore its OpenType features we will begin to discover a rich variety of alternates—even glyphs with pointed ears. All these combined elements provide a wide range of choices to meet different design needs.

Styles: 48
Single Style: starting at 19 USD
Packages: starting at 79 USD
Published by: Los Andes

Spock Complete Family Pack: 159 USD 50% OFF—79.50 USD
Buy Spock


TT Lakes Neue is a simple and functional sans-serif that draws inspiration from Finnish signs of the functionalism era. Despite the general resemblance to the once popular TT Lakes typeface, TT Lakes Neue is a typeface of a completely different level: it features a much more mature approach to design, working with details and to its functionality and variability. We can safely say that using TT Lakes Neue in your work is like wearing classic jeans—they suit everyone and meet any life challenge.

Styles: 91
Single Style: starting at 49 USD
Packages: starting at 180 USD
Published by: TypeType

TT Lakes Neue Complete Family Pack: 490 USD 50% OFF—245 USD
Buy TT Lakes Neue


Juana is the result of a journey to self-discovery and part of a continuous exploration process. The font, based on Jazmín typeface, features a more developed design while still maintaining the essence of the original version.

Styles: 24
Single Style: starting at 29 USD
Packages: starting at 99 USD
Published by: Latinotype

Juana Complete Family: 139 USD 50% OFF—69.50 USD
Buy Juana


Facundo is based on both simple geometric shapes yet subtle nuances make it stand out among its peers. Facundo may look familiar but has a modern and fresh feel, giving your designs a friendly, and at the same time, renewed and singular appearance.

Styles: 14
Single Style: starting at 29 USD
Packages: starting at 199 USD
Published by: Latinotype

Facundo Complete Family: 199 USD 50% OFF—99.50 USD
Buy Facundo


Featuring a generous x-height, wide letter spacing, large open counters and angled stress contrast, Alkes is highly effective for editorials and publishing, where long texts and legibility are the key forces. Its attractive details, calligraphic structure and asymmetrical serifs shine through in the larger sizes and make Alkes suitable for headlines.

Styles: 14
Single Style: starting at 29 USD
Packages: starting at 169 USD
Published by: Fontfabric

Alkes Complete Family Pack: 169 USD 65% OFF—59.15 USD
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Rockford is a geometrical Sans Serif with subtly rounded edges. It comes in many weights and matching Italics. With its large x-height and round features it’s both legible and friendly. It’s suited to cover a wide variety of tasks from editorial to brand design, advertising, logos and more. Rockford is equipped with plenty of OpenType features to perform well. It also comes with Small Caps, Old Style Figures, superior and inferior figures and fractions.

Styles: 14
Single Style: starting at 0 USD
Packages: starting at 99 USD
Published by: Fenotype

Rockford Sans Complete Family: 99 USD 65% OFF—34.65 USD
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This beautiful font explores 3 very individual styles of one typeface. Each style pays homage to classic sans serif typefaces while adding a contemporary flair to its characteristics. With both formal and informal styles, Aestetico explores shapes and curves. The informal letters are rounder and more quirky while the formal style utilizes more traditional sans serif letterforms.

Styles: 54
Single Style: starting at 29 USD
Packages: starting at 149 USD
Published by: Latinotype

Aestetico Complete Family: 199 USD 50% OFF—99.50 USD
Buy Aestetico


TT Ramillas is a fully reconsidered high contrast transitional serif, which is perfectly adapted to modern realities and requirements. When starting this project, we wanted to try to draw a modern serif with the precisely verified shapes, high contrast and detailed elaboration of each character.

Styles: 20
Single Style: starting at 49 USD
Packages: starting at 79 USD
Published by: TypeType

TT Ramillas Complete Family Pack: 199 USD 50% OFF—99.50 USD
Buy TT Ramillas

It’s the perfect time to add these top 10 fonts to your font library. Bookmark this page for future reference.

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