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title: "Typefaces designed in the 1990s"
description: "4 typefaces first cut in the 1990s, who drew each one, and what a design using it reads as today. Plus what came before and after."
url: https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1990s/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Typefaces designed in the 1990s

4 typefaces first released in the 1990s, in order.

| Typeface | Year | Designer | Kind | What it signals now |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FF Meta | 1991 | Erik Spiekermann | Sans-serif | The 1990s doing corporate identity properly. Warm, readable, slightly quirky. |
| Comic Sans | 1994 | Vincent Connare | Display | A hospital notice, a village hall poster, or a joke about typography. |
| Verdana | 1996 | Matthew Carter | Sans-serif | A website designed between 1998 and 2008. |
| Georgia | 1996 | Matthew Carter | Serif | A blog, a newspaper website, or long-form reading on screen. |

- [FF Meta](https://atoneplace.net/font/meta/) — Erik Spiekermann, 1991
- [Comic Sans](https://atoneplace.net/font/comic-sans/) — Vincent Connare, 1994
- [Verdana](https://atoneplace.net/font/verdana/) — Matthew Carter, 1996
- [Georgia](https://atoneplace.net/font/georgia/) — Matthew Carter, 1996

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- [Typefaces from the 1910s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1910s/)
- [Typefaces from the 1920s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1920s/)
- [Typefaces from the 1930s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1930s/)
- [Typefaces from the 1950s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1950s/)
- [Typefaces from the 1960s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1960s/)
- [Typefaces from the 1970s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1970s/)
- [Typefaces from the 1980s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1980s/)
- [Typefaces from the 2000s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/2000s/)
- [Typefaces from the 2010s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/2010s/)
- [Typefaces from the 2020s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/2020s/)