#3 Black Slabbath
If you use Black Sabbath, use it big!
Besides Cumulus & Foam, this is Stefan Kjartansson’s other major claim to fame – the headline-stealing, self-proclaimed “heaviest typeface in the world”, with slivers of white space in between ultra-chunky geometric letterforms. Suffice to say, this one doesn’t function at any size below monster – but then if you use it, you’ll want it to roar.
#2 Otto
Otto is Non-Format’s first commercially available font.
Otto is a stunning font from talented design duo Non-Format. Featuring a combination of delicate lines with flashes of block colour, it’s a unique display font with two personalities that works well in large formats.
#1 ITC Avant Garde
ITC Avant Garde Gothic is a font family based on the logo font used in the Avant Garde magazine. Herb Lubalin devised the logo concept and its companion headline typeface, and then he and Tom Carnase, a partner in Lubalin’s design firm, worked together to transform the idea into a full-fledged typeface.
The condensed fonts were drawn by Ed Benguiat in 1974, and the obliques were designed by André Gürtler, Erich Gschwind andChristian Mengelt in 1977.
