Suggestions for headline fonts

If you work with the Poynter Institute, their font group is about as attractive a headline -- and body -- font as I've seen. Loads of variety, too.

For good bold hits, look into Benton. But the condensed versions, not the regular. Their regular looks like something from a fourth-grade newspaper.

 

We use Minion Display or Semibold for most headlines, and Franklin Gothic Condensed or Extra Condensed for our bold, newsy, sans serif font. I like them pretty well.

 

I'm a big fan of the Franklin Gothic Condensed, but some of its deviations I'm no fan of (Danville, I know, uses a lot of whatever the fat one is and that's grosser than gross). Franklin Gothic Extra Condensed (think Onion headline font) isn't much better. The safer, the better.

 

Oh yes, good point.

 

Helvetica is a sign of laziness.

http://bancomicsans.com/

 

Impact.

Times capped and/or italicized.

 

Photina looks nice.

 

I'll go on record saying I don't like Impact. Maybe it's because it's so popular. It's not a bad font, really, I just don't like it as much as some others.