over 9 years ago from Micah Sivitz, Product Designer at Dropbox
Looking for awesome display fonts for numbers. I often find myself wanting a great font that works well for very large numbers.
For example, when displaying statistics about web traffic, a shiny price, etc.
Got any suggestions for me?
DIN / FF DIN Pro
DIN shines when you use it for numbers. Well, it shines almost anywhere, but numerically-speaking it's fantastic.
Definitely the best one for numbers.
Yeah, <3 it too.
We use Din all over our site and the numerical use is just wonderful in any sort of charting situation.
As an example: https://www.wedgies.com/question/53ce90f67e706802000006a5
Bebas Neue always looks really nice in numerals. http://fontfabric.com/bebas-neue/
I personally really like Montserrat for numbers, it's a free Google font: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Montserrat
Agreed, I like that font. I only wish it had more weights.
I've become a fan of Montserrat recently.
You know which ones I HATE, are those old style, decender-type numbers.
You might be using them wrong.
Not my thing. I just don't like them.
Probably totally impractical for your use case, but I've always been intrigued by the Pompadour numerals.
I don’t know, they might be perfect thing if you want to show a “Shiny price!”
Klinic Slab is also an incredibly unappreciated slab serif, it includes a great set of numerals across four weights + italics.
I think they're beautiful but very difficult to read at a glance.
Agreed - It's definitely a poster-style display font.
Here's a great visualization from H&Co's discover.Typography: http://discover.typography.com/theme/redline/
Beautiful!
I recently started working on an internal product that will display data visualization across a large screen display, desktop and mobile, and I went with Roboto. It's the first time I've used it so I can't say definitively that it's excellent, but so far I'm very happy with how it has looked in the initial designs. I'll keep you guys posted and drop a link when we roll out the product. It's going to be an agile dashboard that pulls from your Jira project.
Me too. Roboto impressed me!
Look Gotham Pro - its amazing
Depends on the context and UI but I would pick the good-ol Georgia any day for displaying numbers.
used Tungsten recently for a design and it came out pretty nice...
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/5yjkwlx81q3i5qi/Screenshot%202014-07-25%2018.42.13.png
I like Klinic.
You can change the text on Google Fonts. Try typing in a few number ideas and seeing if you like any of the fonts. I know a lot of font sites let you do this.
Bebas looks nice, I hadn't seen that before.
That was the most popular font of 2010.
I liked how Lato was used here: https://dribbble.com/shots/1594348-Pricing-WIP#comment-3829031
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