How I Met Your Mother Font

How I Met Your Mother font arrives with the easygoing confidence of a show that knows it has a great premise and isn’t going to oversell it — a sleek, modern sans-serif with a contemporary New York sensibility, clean enough to communicate the show’s sophisticated urban setting and casual enough to signal that what follows will be warm, funny, and consistently on your side. The CBS sitcom that ran from 2005 to 2014 needed lettering that could hold the structural conceit of Ted narrating the story of his life to his future children without the typography feeling either too weighty or too frivolous. Two alternatives work in this same smart-casual register: Alternative 1 and Alternative 2.