Below you'll find a list of the top 100 most used fonts from the Fonts.com Web Fonts service during March. We'll first take a closer look at a perennial favorite though: Trade Gothic. Since their initial release in the 1940s, the Trade Gothic® family has been a stable of North American graphic design. They were popular as fonts of metal type, as phototypesetting designs of the 1970s and 1980s and as digital fonts for print design. This popularity continues to this day, as the Trade Gothic family is ranked number one in the Fonts.com Web Font Service—ahead of both the Avenir® Next and Neue Helvetica® typeface families.

"Since its initial release in the 1940s, the Trade Gothic® family has been a stable of North American graphic design"

When first released, Trade Gothic went by the simple name of "Gothic" with a numeric suffix (Gothic No. 17 through No. 20) identifying the various family members. These were condensed designs intended for what was then called "jobbing" or "trade" work. It wasn't until several years later that the then expanded family was given the name of "Trade Gothic."

Here's the complete list of our top Web fonts for March:

Trade Gothic

Avenir Next

Neue Helvetica

Avenir

Futura

Proxima Nova

Frutiger

Soho

Univers

Helvetica

Gill Sans

Linotype Univers

DIN Next

Slate

Museo Sans

Neo Sans

Charcuterie

Chaparral

Century Gothic

Rockwell

ITC Avant Garde Gothic

Klint

ITC Lubalin Graph

Brandon Grotesque

Motoya Birch

Arial

Myriad

Thirsty Script

ITC Century

Eurostile LT

ITC Caslon No. 224

PMN Caecilia

Linotype Didot

Neue Helvetica Compressed

Zapfino Extra

Neue Frutiger

Optima

Bodoni LT

Times

ITC Legacy Serif

Soho Gothic

Univers Next

Monotype Baskerville

Swift

Harmonia Sans

Veneer

VAG Rounded

ITC Franklin Gothic

Melany Lane

Naive Inline

Minion

Linotype Sketch

Snell Roundhand

ITC Charter

Azbuka

ITC Legacy Square Serif

Fairfield

Swiss 721

ITC American Typewriter

Frutiger Next

Cochin

Helvetica World

University

Harley Davidson Letterpress

Francker

Neue Helvetica eText

Museo Slab

Gill Sans Infant

Trade Gothic Next

Bookman Old Style

Twentieth Century

Trade Gothic Next Soft Rounded

Calibri

Lexia

Kepler

Joanna

Auriol

ITC Stone Informal

ITC Officina Sans

ITC American Typewriter Hellenic

Shelley Script

Courier PS

M Yuen HK

ITC Edwardian Script

Granjon

French Script

Bernhard Modern

Citadel Script

Felix Titling

ITC Tiffany

Engravers

Gloucester

C Xing Kai PRC

Vladimir Script

Flemish Script

Helinda Rook

Linoscript

Alana

Estilo

Chevalier