Jupiter Pro

Jupiter Pro, a better Trajan? Or just a really great titling font with lots of extra swashes? Beautiful either way. And there's a condensed version too.

Aphrodite Pro

With a name like Aphrodite, how could this script font not be elegant, feminine and gorgeous? Snapshot from myfonts.com below:

Relato

We recently purchased some fonts at work and I'm in font heaven—too many delicious new fonts to choose from. One of my favorites is Relato, a contemporary serif font. I just love the italics.

Haikus and Warnock Pro

"A picture is worth a thousand words." Does that also mean that a thousand words are worth a picture? What about 17 syllables? Surprisingly, quite a clear picture can be created from beautifully short haiku - poems limited to 17 syllables.

About the font: Warnock Pro is another favorite font of mine. I love the quirky serifs and the modern interpretation of classic serif style. The italics have a lot of character and sharpness.

P.S. Just for fun, create your own haiku with the click of a button at Everypoet. The results are hilarious!

Avenir

Avenir is a graceful sans serif with options. With Avenir, I never run into the problem I sometimes have with other fonts: the roman cut is too heavy but the light cut is too light. Avenir's font weight increases gradually: light, book, roman, medium, heavy, black. I wish all fonts came in 6 cuts!

Filosofia

Filosofia is a modern serif with symmetry and grace. I like the extras that come with Filosofia: the condensed Filosofia Grand, the Unicase cut (used here for the author's name) and the little decorative ornaments available in the Fractions cut.

Proforma

Proforma is a tight modern font with sharp serifs and a clean no-nonsense look. I like how flexible it is. It works well with all sorts of projects. In 2007, TIME magazine was redesigned and Proforma was chosen for their new text font.

Cosmos

While other san serifs can be cold and ultra-modern, Cosmos's gently shaped letters and active italics make it the "friendly san serif," at least in my book.

Borges Poema

Borges Poema is at the height of italic elegance. I especially love the curlicues and the curves of the W, g and f. I'm going to have to get the whole family.

I recently used Borges Poema on a congratulations card for a retiring coworker. The funny thing is — when I was looking through the retirement book assembled for her, I saw another card using Borges Poema too. I guess I'm not the only designer who likes this font.

Nofret

I like Nofret for its elegantly rounded letterforms, straight serifs, and beautiful small caps. In the italic cut, the characters are less round and more compressed—very calligraphic. As is generally true of modern serifs, as the font weight gets heavier Nofret's thick to thin ratio becomes more and more pronounced.

Alita

My favorite thing about Alita is it's unique Postmodern cut. In this sample, I've mixed Alita Postmodern characters (the w, k and more) in with Alita Regular.

Fairfield

I'm getting ready for my vacation and this quote made me laugh. It's especially true with the current value of the US dollar compared to the Euro or Swedish kronor.

Fairfield is a serif font with variety! Light, medium, bold, heavy, italics, small caps, and swash. There's even a caption version which I used for second sentence (I liked the rounded 'a's and flowing serifs). For large blocks of text, Fairfield Light is a little too thin and Fairfield Medium a little too heavy but it works well for headers, call outs and the like.

Handwriting - Dakota

Although it's not very often, sometimes I need a informal handwriting font. Handwriting - Dakota has that "sloppy everyday handwriting" feel and nice variation between the letter-forms. It's available free from Fonts101.com.

Sinfonieta

Sinfonieta sounds like it could be Italian for sinuous (it's not). This script is so beautiful and flowing it almost floats off the page. This quote is tiny portion of the poem "A Blessing for One Who is Exhausted" by John O'Donohue. I first heard of John O'Donohue from the Speaking of Faith podcast The Inner Landscape of Beauty and I love the way he speaks of beauty, nature and tuning into our inner self.

Serlio

Gorgeous, gorgeous Serlio. I love the curves and delicateness in Serlio's letter forms and serifs. The only downsides are that Serlio is a titling font (which means it's only available in all caps) and it can get a little thin at small sizes. It's still one of my favorite fonts.

Minion

What's not to love about Minion? This classic (but not too classical) serif font has beautiful letter shapes, the full assortment of extras and great italics (without the annoying the 'h' looks like a 'b' problem many other fonts have). Designed by Robert Slimbach, Minion was inspired by the timeless beauty of the fonts of the late Renaissance.

GFY ErinBurkett

This is a whimsical and artistic handwriting font. I love the extra curlicues and curves. It's created by Pittsburgh singer/songwriter Erin Burkett. Get it free from Chank.com.

Museo

Museo is a semi-serif font with lots of interest and character. What I like best? Three cuts are available for free from Myfonts.com

Incognito and Terra Incognito

Incognito is a serif/script-like font with 4 styles of swash capitals and true small caps. I particularly like the lowercase g and k of the roman type, the beautiful swash capital A and the I and R of the small caps. Terra Incognito (the Latin term for "unknown land") is also part of the Incognito font set. It's a decorative font with dingbats inspired by old maps (like the compass I've used here).