The best number fonts

Gorga Grotesque font sample with numbers
(Image credit: Adam Fathony)

Numbers are an essential aspect of a font’s core character set, but often they are overlooked when typographic decisions are being made. There are a surprising amount of things to consider, such as whether the characters are capital-height or have ascenders and descenders, and how similar the zero is to a capital O. Also remember that the number 1 can end up looking lonely without some tracking if you are using a monospace font.

To assemble this list of the best number fonts we’ve talked to designers in branding and packaging, editorial, publishing and online design. Some of them are free fonts, and some are included among the Adobe fonts within Creative Cloud. Also see our feature on the best typewriter fonts for some unusual number designs. 

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Garrick Webster

Garrick Webster is a freelance copywriter and branding specialist. He’s worked with major renewable energy companies such as Ecotricity and the Green Britain Group, and has helped develop award-winning branding and packaging for several distilleries in the UK, the US and Australia. He’s a former editor of Computer Arts magazine and has been writing about design, creativity and technology since 1995.

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