Choosing the right font is an important piece of your business card design. The right font can completely tie together the theme you are going for, and the wrong font can make the design feel off. To help you navigate the vast ocean of font options available to you, we have put together a list of our favorite versatile choices to complete your design.
1. FF Tisa Sans
2. Neue Haas Unica
Neue Haas Unica is a revival of the classic Unica, which was used in Linotype archives in Germany. This typeface was meant to be a hybrid of Helvetica and Unica, while keeping versatility. Select this font when you want a clean font with historic beginnings.
3. Open Sans
Open Sans has excellent legibility and its letterforms are prominent. The font was commissioned by
4. Aktiv Grotesk
Aktiv Grotesk takes an authoritative position, lending support to your message without overpowering it. Grotesque fonts have been hugely popular over the last fifty years, chosen for their neutrality, contemporary feel, and seriousness.
5. Alegreya
Alegreya was originally intended for literature with its various letterform weights and high readability. The font has a calligraphic feel, while also incorporating a modern serif style. It conveys a dynamic and varied rhythm which facilitates the reading of long texts.
6. Merriweather
Merriweather was designed to be a text face that is pleasant to read on screens. It has a geometric feel and scales down well to small sizes.
There is also Merriweather Sans, a sans-serif version which closely harmonizes with the weights and styles of this serif family.
7. Standard CT
Standard CT is a sans serif and stencil font family. This typeface has twenty-six styles and was published by CastleType. While it is very similar to Helvetica, it brings a little more character to your text.
8. ARVO
Arvo is a very good slab serif font family, created by Anton Koovit. It has 4 different variations, from normal weight and normal italic to bold italic. It is pretty rare to find a full Slab Serif web font family and this font gets pretty close to satisfying all of our needs for strong characters and high readability. Combined with a sans-serif body font, Arvo makes a great font for titles and subtitles.
9. Folio
Folio is considered part of the International Typographic Style, with Helvetica and Univers also released at the same time. All three are modeled after Akzidenz-Grotesk. However, Folio more closely follows the original model than the other two. It is rarely used compared to the other two so it can make a more unique choice.
10. Playfair Display
Playfair is a transitional design. In the late 18th century, broad nib quills were replaced by pointed steel pens as the popular writing tool of the day.
Together with developments in printing technology, it became suitable to letterforms of high contrast and delicate hairlines.