Favourite Fonts For 2025

I enjoy obsessing about typefaces. They’re everywhere, yet often somewhat invisible. I like free things, not just because they’re free (as in beer), but also because they can’t easily be taken away (as in freedom).

Alegreya

A workhorse:

• Looks good both small and large.
• Serif, but also there’s a sans serif version and small caps and of course sans serif small caps.
• Each of these comes in a myriad of weights, and with beautiful italics.
• Discretionary ligatures, lining and old style numerals, proportional and tabular numerals. Choose any combination!
• Won some awards and generally gets a lot of praise.
• Is on GitHub.

Bricolage Grotesque

• Has a really cool interactive homepage.
• Looks good both small and large.
• Variable: weight, width, optical size. No italics though!
• Is on GitHub.

Recursive

• Has a really cool interactive homepage.
• Looks good both small and large.
• Variable: mono (mono vs proportional & everything inbetween) casualness (casual vs linear & everything inbetween!), weight, slant, cursive.
• Is on GitHub.

Honourable mentions

• The IBM Plex family is great: the Sans and Mono are great and coherent and there’s also Serif.
• Playfair Display is beautiful but somewhat single use (display!)