Five Fabulous Font Trends for 2021 Part One

The font trends for 2021 are fast approaching, in more ways than one. This year’s trends—as identified by our community of designers from around the world—appear to share a general theme: movement.

Whether it’s through dynamic action lines, fluid shapes, or alternating sizes, these fonts are stretching their limbs in preparation for the New Year.

While there is great variety overall in this year’s trends, it’s looking like 2021 might just be the year fonts come alive. 

8.  The Top 5 Font Trends For 2021: 

1. Alternating Baselines 

All caps text is useful for more than just shouting matches on the internet. In crucial contexts such as titles and brand names, it is often necessary. It makes words feel more important and grownup, but all caps lettering also comes with a price. 

From a design perspective, capitalized words tend to form a boxy shape, which can read as less visually interesting than the height variation provided by lowercase forms. But by taking advantage of uneven sizing, font designers are writing outside the box in 2021.

This trend alternates the cap height and baselines of capitalized letters in order to create variety. Designers can also intensify this by changing the thickness between letters and even tilting their axes.

The result is letterforms that are full of surprises while maintaining the uniform emphasis of capitalization.