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Another day, another "What's your type?" thread. This is a thread for the obvious "what's your font type?" joke.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

My font type: Microgramma all the way

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Microgramma is hotttt. I like the Pan Am font too.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I am a bit clueless when it comes to fonts. I am waiting till I upgrade to Panther so that I can have a decent way of viewing them all. I use Trebuchet as a screen font. Anyone have a link to some pretty display fonts I can download for free?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Anything aside from arial or comic sans serif.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

tahoma

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really get the Arial hate, apart from it being almost as ubiqitous as TNR.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Arial has a sort of generic grey ugliness.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Edwardian Script ITC

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I like lots of fonts.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Caslon

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

HELVETICA BOLD ITALIC

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, personally I'm attracted to lots of different font types, in the past I've dated arial, times new roman and webdings. Though webdings did turn out to be a little crazy, oh well. There are so many fonts to choose from, I don't know how anyone could restrict themselves to just one.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Arial is the poor man's Helvetica, tho the former is technically better for VDU display as it's more recent and has that consideration in mind (this may or may not be true).

I was big on Trebuchet around 18 months ago, then a big Palatino revival - 3 years ago I would have been aghast if you'd told me serifs would've become trendy again. I'm going to try designing my own one soon.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh - I've just discovered LunalTC - it's rather swanky.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I beg your pardon - it's actually LunaITC

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

lucida console.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Century Gothic. I mean, Gothic! Plus, it gets used a lot in IDM album covers/notes.

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

sho luv for Gill Sans, as used on London Underground maps

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it actually Gill Sans? I thought it was just similar, for some reason. Anyway, it's lovely, yes.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Also: FixedSys! For that retro IRC look!

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Copperplate can fuck right off

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

ARIAL FOR LIFE YOU CORNY INDIEFONT FUXXORS

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Bleh. I'm not voting for you now!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

CURSES oh well at least I have four years to court the indiefont vote.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't remember if it's a variant of Gill Sans (the regular one doesn't have diamond dots) or something else entirely now, bleh

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

BLEH X-POST

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It's Johnson New on the tube.

Gill Sans is wuvvly but doesn't render that nicely in the font sizes I need to use in my Windows IDE. Oh, for having the combination of Mac prettiness with Windows functionality in my working environment.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Times New Roman is my steadfast friend.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

oh no! indiefont guilt! oh no!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been trying to figure out this one for ages. It's the font that appears on the '88-'89 My Bloody Valentine releases. I talked to numerous people and finally nailed it down. It looks like 'bauhaus' but it's not, it's Wexford medium:
http://www.rotovibe.com/images/wexford_medium.gif

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

when i'm feeling classy i go with futura but usually i'm an impact man.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

tahoma and verdana own

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

haha there's a font called FREYA?

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I often wonder how people mock up spoofs of things in Photoshop that rely on the same font being used. There should be some website where you can upload a scan of a letter and it tells you what font it is. Maybe there is.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurrah for Spencer's detective work! That's very good knowledge, that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

there is something calming and hypnotic about the phrase "mock up spoofs of things"

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

There should be, yes, but I am doubtful as to whether it's currently possible. You'd certainly need more than a single letter.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I use Georgia for webviewing porpoises. It's quite elegant for a webfont, and those non-aligning numerals... yum.

Otherwise, you cannot be a bit of Garamond.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a soft spot for Courier. It was sad when the US govt abandonded it recently. I use TW Cent at work.

― Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

You cannot beat a bit of Garamond.

You can, in fact, be a bit of Garamond, as I will be the first to tell you. I was a 9 point italic 's' for several months last year.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

There should be some website where you can upload a scan of a letter and it tells you what font it is. Maybe there is.

something similar:

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like I ruled the world.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean you don't!!!!????

― Maddie (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

JTN is right about Georgia.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I have now switched to Georgia.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Always the bandwagon jumper.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Ew - it's all a bit dense with the single spaced New Answers page.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm, I have just switched and am not convinced.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I am thinking of SWITCHING BACK.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I am now reading you in Garamond. This is a distinct improvement.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like the way the underline intersects the bottom loop of the g's, mind. Pre-hypertext font hazards ahoy.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

On reflection, all the descenders look a bit silly when underlined.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I am going with Optima for a while.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes I think ILx might be improved if I read it in Dingbats.

― Carson the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

comic sans LOL

― Mandee, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I said I loved comic sans here at work once to be funny - but my co-worker chimed in with how much she loved it, too.. and how much she loved it in purple, even.

― mandee, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Comic Sans can eat my shorts. I know it's the number one hated font amongst people who care about these things, and so complaining about it is a bit tedious, but I really, really dislike it.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

PURPLE COMIC SANS!

I bet she draws little hearts over her 'i's as well.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the "bittersweet" font:

http://img.1001fonts.com/fonts/509.big.png

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

It makes me laugh just seeing the name - imagine what a whole Health & Safety manual set in it can do to me.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Bittersweet is very attractive.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Which makes you laugh, N. - comic sans, or bittersweet?

― mandee, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, comic sans.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

obituaries should be written in comic sans just to lighten the mood.

― mandee, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually used to type the obituaries at a newspaper. I should have experimented with fonts.

― mandee, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Really, I think everyone would be a lot nicer to each other if all notices were in it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://bancomicsans.com/home.html

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Lucida Grande is still my browser/OS font of choice. Couldn't bear anything else.

Andale Mono for terminal font is fantastic

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.littlewonder.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ourcause/loveheart.jpg

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Lucida Grande, all the way

― Tadpole (calstars), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The kerning on Lucida Grande is abysmal!

I have spent the last two nitemarish months in my capacity as brand guru trying to find a screenfont that is acceptable to the whole organisation I work for, and this thread is starting to give me flashbacks.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Century Gothic, here.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

You should have just went for the Comic Sans!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Lucida Grande is like a bad version of Trebuchet.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I prefer Tiresias.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Very nice.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Garamond since '98

Holla!

― pholm, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Lucida Grande is like a bad version of Trebuchet.

I'm not that crazy about Trebuchet, but it would make a great baby name.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Lucida Grande is like a bad version of Trebuchet.

I used to use Trebuchet but it has a harshness to it on my laptop screen that's hard on my eyes after awhile.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Caslon Antique!

Bonus points for those who can name the band who used this font!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Trick of the trade:

http://www.identifont.com

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Bonus points for those who can name the band who used this font!

This looks similar:

http://orangefox.svs.com/rem/gif/discog/sp70502a.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

That's not who I was thinking of, but that DOES look a lot like it

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

(DEAR GOD I USED "WHO" INSTEAD OF "WHOM" SLIT MY WRISTS PLEASE)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

AARGH i know what you're thinking of too, but what is it?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

XTC?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Johnston! of course! what a brain-mong that was...

i am reading ILX in Helvetica Rounded MT Bold

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

(DEAR GOD I USED "WHO" INSTEAD OF "WHOM" SLIT MY WRISTS PLEASE)

You also ended the original phrase with a preposition.

Eh, what are you gonna do?

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew that too, but I feel worse about the who/whom.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Caslon Antique *is* the Chronic Town font

XTC's Nonsuch uses something else

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

BUT THERE IS ANOTHER

(This may very well turn into a game of "guess what I'm thinking and type your answers in 'Symbol'" - not that that's a bad thing)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002H2J.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

ding ding ding!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

yup. that's the one.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

*starts humming the various riffs*

Anyway, both Lucida Grande and Trebuchet sound like exotic diseases. Much about all of you is explained.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The Trebuchet is a 16th century seige engine. Kinda like a catapult, but based on gravity for it's chucking power.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, trust me, I know. You live with SCA fanatics for a while, you learn a little too much.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

This seems like a good place for a foreskin joke.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Smug vs. smeg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

You have made me hate Tom Cruise even more.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

That's hard to do!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a huge fan of CA Aires Pro from the folks at Cape Arcona.

― Mike Salmo (salmo), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been using Chalet from House Industries lately, a nice twist on Bauhaus and a great alternative to Helvetica, Avant Garde and Futura if you're bored with them:
http://houseind.com/images/fonts/kits/CHALET-FO/splash/ani.gif

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

and of course there's DIN MittelSchrift:
http://www.identifont.com/samples/adobe/DINMittelSchrift.gif

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

The "New York 60" one is really nice.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Akzidenz Grotesk representin' for the NYC MTA:

http://www.identifont.com/samples/berthold/BertholdAG.gif

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

And Highway Gothic for all the commuters out there

http://image1.myfonts.com/image1/textimage/ce/ce40745f6ed3fec5239606f14128f694.png

Though technically the exact "highway sign font" is "FHWA Series E modified"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.visi.com/fall/news/mesfont.html

― ferg (Ferg), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Also: http://www.jh3.com/robyn/

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish i could talk in comic sans.

― mandee, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

what about 'geezah' and 'geeza pro', geezaesthetes?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

microgramma looks alot like eurostile to me. i really lie the angles in highways gothic there. lately i've been favouring bank gothic:
http://www.identifont.com/samples/bitstream/BankGothic.gif
for headings, not body copy obv

and when i need a serif font i always lean towards bernhard modern
http://www.transaction-one.com/gs/html/a/adobe/fontstore/en/type/browser/gifs/BERT/C_BERT-10012000.GIF
the circumstances where i can use this one are rare but i absolutely love the high ascenders and low descenders.

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

verdana, but sometimes I'm a Trebuchet MS

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like the Paris 60/80 in Spencer's.

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm on crack

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, i meant high ascenders contrasted to the modest descenders.

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I miss aja

Yes we have no bananas

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

times new roman.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to like arial, but it gets ugly when it's bigger than 14px unless it's bold.
This is bold arial 14px

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Microgramma in action. When you absolutely, positively need that "yesterday's future now!" look

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002TQV.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://www.starshipmodeler.com/other/s1_lside.jpg

http://www.metalartslettersandplaques.com/NewFiles/401-microgramma-font.gif

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Always enjoyed arial narrow. I like it tall and skinny.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Arial 10pt == my ideal font.

― cis (cis), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Phantom-Bold

― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yessssssss

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm reminded to show the love for Harry Beck's London Underground font

http://www.p22.com/products/images/samlon.gif

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Sylfaen for me.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm an Avant-Garde kinda guy:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf700/f750/f75076ykj5n.jpg

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Square721 BdEx BT is practically identical to Microgramma as far as i can see

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Helvetica Neue Bold is still the ideal font.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Switch to Franklin Gothic Heavy and have ILX read as one humungous Guardian headline!

― chris j (chris j), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://base58.com/ilx/vag.gif

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Switch to Franklin Gothic Heavy and have ILX read as one humungous Guardian headline!

Ew, ew, and ew.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The Guardian site however, which uses various weights of Helvetica Neue Extended, is my favorite website design ever.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I am enjoying the free Dream Orphans for headings and Lido as a general, readable sans serif.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I like the name Dream Orphans more than I like the font, though the font is nice enough.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The 'What the Font?' thing upthread is great, but I also like idenifont.com, which allows you to ID a font on the basis of a Q&A session. Fun if you don't actually have a font in mind but just want to state your preferences.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

What does Comic sans MS say about me? That I shoudl be a primary school teacher instead of work in a meeeeedjaaar office?

― badger Kitten (badger Kitten), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lamosca.com/tshirt/img/helvetica.jpg

Gill Sans for headings and best

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

My browser font is Lucida Grande, which is very readable.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Tahoma all caps, uh huh.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

What, no love for Haettenschweiler?? Geez...

Our default font at work is Lucinda Sans Unicode, which I've taken a shining to, actually.

When I'm feeling wacky, I go for VELCRO:

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.fontalicious.com/media/velcro.gif

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I am surprised that after experimenting with other fonts because of this thread, I had to return to TNR because I just couldn't read ILX properly in any of the others. Damn my brane.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sticking with Optima. I discovered that it's the Estée Lauder font too.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

That makes sense.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Though she's got a special accent on her E.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

arial, tahoma and verdana. and wingdings

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Ye gods how did I miss this thread!? Ive been working too hard.

I am a fan of Stone informal, and Stone Sans Bold, which has a nice solid headline/cover feel to it.

I like Trebuchet for screen things like MSN too, the & symbol looks very cool in trebuchet!

Try as I have to experiment tho, in my browser I stick to plain old Times New Roman. I think I've just got too used to it.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 15 April 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Stone sans bold:

http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/gifs/STAQ/A_STAQ-10012000.GIF

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 15 April 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

the quick brown what now?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

I have just been told to use Arial at work. I am no longer to use Trebuchet - it looks "studenty" and "amateur". Thoughts?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

You must be in Finance. (altho there's nothing wrong with Arial, it's my preference).

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Gill Sans is good, although it does make everything you write look like a 1950s railway notice. Of course, that's what it was originally created for.

My blog uses Vagabond Outline for its headings at the moment; but I'm planning to change it to Eras.

Arial, Comic Sans, and all those other MS fonts are pretty much dud. Some are worse than others, though.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

bookman, old style.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Arial is essentially helvetica, tweaked a bit so MS could copyright it. It's plain and useful. No hate from me.

Trebuchet does not look "amateur," unless you have a wide range of fonts to choose from. It's a perfectly good web font. Then again, typography on the web is a big unfunny joke.

I'm going through a Clarendon phase right now, which is a little shameful since everyone else is, too. The menu signs at both Starbucks and Einstein's Bagels are in Clarendon, which diminishes it specialness, sad to say. It really is lovely, though.

― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

if you're writing a paper..it's all about courier new

― heidid24, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

never use courier¡

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that's if you're writing a screenplay, I thought. Times New Roman is still a great font for print.

I love Bodini as a book font.

― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

For Arial haterz:

http://www.mimeartist.com/helvetica/

― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

New York, 12 point. Garamond if I'm forced to use a PC.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 13 August 2004 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i always use 12 pt arial, for work and uni

― gem (trisk), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

it's all Tahoma for me

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

tahoma's good

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:14 (twenty-one years ago)

It's such a cliche, but I used to love Juice. That was The Lollies' font.

I hate Arial, even though I always end up using it. I prefer Trebuchet myself, I actually love that font, Mark, so you are not alone. Also Verdana is nice, too.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Here around the print shop that doubles as my home, the girls have been using Mrs. Eaves a lot.

My letterhead is in Franklin Gothic, grey-blue. I wasn't thinking Guardian-- I was going for that ultra-serious 1950s non-fiction trade paperback look.

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I can understand why Comic has its haterz, but I use it because it's the easiest (commonly available) font for people with dyslexia to read and seeing as I work in SEN, it's just necessary.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

What is SEN?

Is it true about Comic Sans being easiest for Dyslexics to read? I wonder what our font is! I know that we often have to do strange things to the formatting of our spreadsheets and the like, to make it easier for our clients to read.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a huge crush on Futura.

Light, it's all about jazz and long cigarette holders. (Yes, that was a shameless blog plug.) "http://okladki-divx.neostrada.pl/covers/e/eyes_wide_shut.jpg">Bold, it's commading but not stuffy. You can't mess with the classics.

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops.

http://okladki-divx.neostrada.pl/covers/e/eyes_wide_shut.jpg

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Special Educational Needs. Sorry, jargon and that.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, Madchen, I should have known that. Because I sit in "sales" and not "operations", I don't get to hear the jargon around here.

I wonder if our marketing are aware that certain fonts are easier for dyslexics. We had to explain to the new marketing guy why the phone number is read out the way that it is in our ads, in order for it to be easier for dyslexics to remember.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

My all-time favourite is Toulouse-Lautrec, but I've not been able to get my hands on it since, like, 1999. Otherwise, it's all about Arial Narrow.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I am sick of Trebuchet cos of FT site - I guess I'm done with Georgia too...Geneva then

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate - this is a useful page (and site in general)
http://www.dyslexic.com/database/articles/fonts.html

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

futura is good - it's the pale saints font

but i use mostly courier because it's fixed width and available everywhere.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone know what's the font they use for underground maps?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Sigh. Joe would know. His dad did the digisisation of the tube maps.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Or rather, digitisation. Or would that be digitalisation?

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Ken, if you read the thread you'd find out

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Garamond for posh, Verdana for sans purposes. Standard is Arial around here, which is OK and at least readable. Trebuchet seems to be popular amongst ILXors but I think it's a bit skinny.

Ken, ask BApps - I'd imagine it's proprietary, given the crazy diamond dot on the i and ting.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Futura and Frutiger and Calisto and of course Gill Sans and Johnston Underground too. I hate Goudy. The company likes it, creating similar spreadsheet-format arsing about.
Kubrik just loved Futura didn't he? 2001:ASO poster here

xpost underground font=johnston underground but gill sans is close

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Kubrik just loved Futura didn't he? 2001:ASO poster here

He really did.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1177707,00.html

t is not a remarkable note except for one thing. The typeface Tony used to print it is exactly the same typeface Kubrick used for the posters and title sequences of Eyes Wide Shut and 2001. "It's Futura Extra Bold," explains Tony. "It was Stanley's favourite typeface. It's sans serif. He liked Helvetica and Univers, too. Clean and elegant."
"Is this the kind of thing you and Kubrick used to discuss?" I ask.
"God, yes," says Tony. "Sometimes late into the night. I was always trying to persuade him to turn away from them. But he was wedded to his sans serifs."

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Tony's right (just after the bit you quoted, kenan), Bembo looks good. Never looked properly before.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

What web designers have to live with is this:

http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-CombinedResultsFull.shtml

so if you want a serif font your best bet is Georgia, which is as nice as it gets for freebie fonts. Times/New Roman isn't even that reliable on PC platforms. bah. trebuchet is a nice compromise in that it's not serif, but it has enough earmarks to make it readable. having said that, I am desperate to get away from it on FT

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

aha cheers cabbage

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

any diff in garamonds "ITC" "Adobe" and "Simoncini" ? i appear to have them all

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't work in finance! I work in a vibrant, creative film and tv company! Well, maybe not creative, more parasitical, but still.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Comic has its haterz, but I use it because it's the easiest (commonly available) font for people with dyslexia to read
i have never ever heard that before - & i'm a designer¡
& i'm dyslexic.

i would think the easiest fonts to read would be a serif font (like times or georgia) as the serifs allow for more dystinction between the letter forms.

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i guess i may be wrong; i pulled this copy from a writing for dyslexics site:
I assumed the
> reason visually impaired students seemed to prefer sans was for the same
> reason dyslexics do: because serif letters blend into each other. Not
> exactly, one student told me. It's because of the uniformity of most sans
> serif fonts. Serif letters tend to thin in places, but most sans serif
> fonts have uniform thickness throughout. This student told me she actually
> loses parts of serif letters because she can't see the thin parts, and she
> can't tell what the letters are. She said she finds 16-point bold Arial
> the easiest to read.

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I do love the idea of all material for dyslexics being printed in Comic Sans.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Learning disabilities are FUN!

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, bother. That was supposed to be in Comic Sans.

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The thing is that there's no universally agreed font which all people with dyslexia find easier than others. My link upthread said that the length of up- and down-strokes makes a difference and some people find it easier to read fonts that immitate handwrighting (which I - not dyslexic - find a nightmare). Have you had a look at Read Regular?

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"handwrighting... not dyslexic"

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I am still the only person who uses Lucinda Sans Unicode...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Ohmigod, those font effects on that page are more disorienting than going on a brightstar machine if you're not dyslexic!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I use it, too, as a backup PC-friendly replacement for Lucida Grande. It's the same thing.

Tony's right (just after the bit you quoted, kenan), Bembo looks good. Never looked properly before.

It is lovely. One big problem, though -- it's called "Bembo."

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't work in finance! I work in a vibrant, creative film and tv company!

I don't work in finance either, I work for a magazine and I'm the only one in the company on a mac. So when I send in my holiday requests or expenses claims, which are created on PCs and supposed to be in Goudy, it takes ages to work out what the hell's going on with the forms.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.readregular.com/nederlands/images/header.gif
i want to know if there's a logic for this header going to a lighter blue towards the end.

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

lucinda is the fixed-width one? i use that for my terminal software (if that's the one)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

lucida typewriter is a GREBT monospaced for terminal work.

most overused font of recent = FF's JustLeftHand. it's on every bloody menu, and second-rate commercial van and shop at the mo.

and i bet the menu-setters/sign writers didn't bloody license it. FF fonts - most expensive in the world. but they are nice.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

omg, don't tell my typography teacher i relate to t26 fonts

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

how come i can't insert images anymore?

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://ilx.p3r.net/faq.php?board=1

img tag was disabled! you can use the i thingie.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost: the current Transport for London font, diamond on the i and all, is New Johnston Sans. It's proprietory and I don't think it's available anywhere; but you can buy the older Johnston, its predecessor, from the London Transport Museum.

Gill Sans was loosely based on Johnston, but doesn't really look much like it. I've noticed, too, a lot of variation in the various Gill Sans truetype versions available for PCs. The original version was designed by Eric Gill for Monotype, for a commission from the London & North Eastern Railway - part of Gill's payment was a footplate ride on the Flying Scotsman. It was later used as the British Railways house font until they switched to Helvetica in 1964, as part of the big "Corporate Image" project.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I so hope the next Network Rail rebranding project sees them switch to Comic Sans.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 13 August 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.grampaslap.com/ilx/django.gif
http://www.grampaslap.com/ilx/enabler.gif
http://www.grampaslap.com/ilx/emily.gif

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Friday, 13 August 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, does anyone have this font or a reasonable facsimile of it? (And can you e-mail/IM it to me? I'll make it worth your while.)

http://www.fontscape.com/pictures/itc/Shatter.gif

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

ocr extended

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I just switched to Helvetica after using the Safari-default Times for the past six months.
I'm curious as to what font size y'all are using. I just bumped mine up to 20 from 16 so I could more easily read from my 12 inch Powerbook screen from a few feet away.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i generally use the defaults since they're easy to read, but my favorite font is garamond because it makes it feel like im reading a book.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

That's for when you're not on ilx, right?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I am currently feeling various weights of Avenir.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

STENCIL! STENCIL!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.fonts.com/images/products/closeup/000000693.gif

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Helvetica is AWFUL for screen reading, AaronK!

I see that nobody answered my Garamond question.

I've been using Georgia since like whenever it came out. Sometimes I think it Microsoft's greatest invention.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Georgia, too, mainly because it's a serif that's readable on a screen, even at relatively small sizes. Not a lot of those going around.

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I now have this image in my mind of Tracer belting out a karaoke version of "Georgia On My Mind".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I just changed all the fonts on my work desktop to TW Cen and variations thereof. Except Courier new for monospace web text. ILX looks great. I'm also using the GreyModern theme for firefox which combined with the bold italic TW Cen in the menus makes my browsing experience look rather Sky Captain in a way.

I was using Georgia for a while until we got XP at the office, Tracer is on point about readability at small sizes.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Helvetica is AWFUL for screen reading, AaronK!
I brought up Helvetica, not AaronK.
What's wrong with it?
Georgia looks fuckin ugly at 20. Guess it looks ok at 16 and below...

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

hah crap sorry HZ!! the two posts were right together. i really like helvetica neue, and helvetica too, but not for reading blocks of text. it's just harder for me, for some reason.

alright i just made georgia 20 and i don't get it, it looks the same. except somewhat bigger.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I realize that I'm doing Georgia no favors on this thread.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Verdana 8pt.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to use verdana, i used to be in love with it. but then i realized that it wasnt too different from tahoma and it was all downhill from there. none of these have the panache that garamond does.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 14 October 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

bembo

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

century GOTHic. oh yes.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

I am tired of TW Cen. I have been typing all my schoolwork in Century lately, it looks much better. Is Georgia popular with bloggers?

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

I like Minion Pro, mainly for the question mark.

http://typecgi.adobe.com/cgi-bin/type/online.exe?string=Does%20ilx%20like%20it?&imgx=380&imgy=60&font=MinionPro-Medium.otf

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

New Courier 14 pt Bold. It's how I type all of my radio scripts.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Helvetica Neu 65

― Neat, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

not a single Geneva lover? it's the best font for the screen.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 26 January 2006 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Joanna, mainly for the italic, which, lacking in obliquity, is ultra old school. Designed by Eric Gill of Gill Sans fame, but not yet overused by every fule with a Mac asked to design promotional material for a university or bus company. Also +1 for Bembo and Minion.

― Mike W (caek), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

andale mono 8pt
verdana 8pt
helvetica neue

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

I like Trebuchet.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Joanna, mainly for the italic, which, lacking in obliquity, is ultra old school.

I love it!

And yeah, italic type is almost as old as books, but was invented not for emphasis or to make type frilly, but to get as much of it on the page as possible.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

after spending time with verdana and tahoma, i have settled on...

georgia

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Joanna is...odd! I don't like the italic faces much, but the capital B in Roman is sexay.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nd.edu/~jsherman/gill/images/gill.jpeg

I have here a copy of "An Essay on Typography" by Gill, which was set entirely in Joanna by him. It's a beautiful book, and its contents typically idiosyncratic, wide-ranging, concise, elegant, funny and insane. (Paul Rand's NY Times review is interesting.) Some of my favourite bits:

"There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools."

"The sound of the klaxon hurts our ears — it is meant to do so — lest worse befall us. Were it as rare as the screech of the peacock we should like it — at any rate its assocations would be more delightful."

"It is not the artist who is sentimental—it is the men of business and the man of science."

The choice quote from his entry on Wikipedia is:

"Gill's devout Roman Catholicism did not prevent him from living a bohemian lifestyle and taking lovers. According to the 1989 biography by Fiona MacCarthy, Gill's relationships included two of his sisters and two of his daughters. His personal diaries also describe, in great detail, regular sexual activity between himself and the family dog."

(This is not Wikipedia vandalism. It's true.) Satisyingly, I bought his Essay on Typography at a second-hand book shop in Hay-on-Wye, which is a stone's throw from Capel-y-ffin, where all this fun took place. He's basically my hero. Here's one of his charming etchings asserting the holiness of sex.

http://www.artline.com/galleries/aaron/publications/catalog/gill_bending_92.jpg

― Mike W (caek), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Also, while I'm at it, Avant Garde (with the sexy variant letterforms — it's rub without) is the shit too:

http://drzeus.best.vwh.net/wotw/0072.jpg

― Mike W (caek), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:47 (twenty years ago)

For those of you who like Georgia, Tahoma or Verdana (or Bell Centenial, which is used in US telephone directories), they were designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft. There's a great PBS interview with him archived here.

― Mike W (caek), Friday, 27 January 2006 00:07 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I've been looking around for a new monospaced font and noticed this screenshot of 18 different types.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 23 February 2006 02:20 (twenty years ago)

I like tahoma, lucida sans, alba (for decorative stuff).
In general I favour either round or slim and elegant fonts without serifes.
Times New Roman I really don't like much, although I hate it a lot less than I used to.

― clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

I've been looking around for a new monospaced font and noticed this screenshot of 18 different types.

I used a similar comparison here. It has a few more fonts, but the screenshots are separate and cleartype is always on.

― inert false cat (sleep), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:40 (twenty years ago)

georgia, the font

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:29 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

So, how about a replacement for tired old Times New Roman? I'm sick of looking at it now. Cambria (coming with Office 2007/Vista) looks nice, but I don't know if MS has made them available yet...

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Monday, 8 January 2007 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

We have been using Univers at work. I like it I think.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 8 January 2007 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to myself - I meant to say Constantia, but Cambria is nice too.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Monday, 8 January 2007 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/149/339899833_7c725f9b22.jpg

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 8 January 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

current fave = the one used for the opening credits/titles to Risky Business

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Monday, 8 January 2007 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

whatever this is

http://website.lineone.net/~manhunter3/video/intro02a.jpg

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 8 January 2007 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Minion kicks ass for body copy.

― stet (stet), Monday, 8 January 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Enrique - could be Strada Cond-Bold

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 January 2007 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

the M doesn't look quite right. looks closer to Century Gothic or similar.

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Monday, 8 January 2007 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

i wanna watch maneater now :/

― tsk. (mwah), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

haha oops

― tsk. (mwah), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

they should totally have called it that.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

he's a maaanhunter, make you work hard
wish you never ever met him at all

― tsk. (mwah), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

the new issue of how magazine is all about typography.

― passiflora incarnata (get bent), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

screen: verdana or other suitably squat sans-serif. trebuchet is just okay. verdana allows for maximum readability at minimum size, for me, and it's all about the real estate.

page: I like century schoolbook, baskerville, book antiqua, caslon, oh I'll put up with just about any nice well-behaved serif that isn't Times, the letter spacing of Times more than anything makes my eyes bleed

titling: ITC Bauhaus, dweebs, 1975 emulating 1925 represent

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

this is a neat guide to fonts ripping off bauhaus design!
http://www.bowfinprintworks.com/BauhausFaces.html

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm almost positive that the Manhunter titles are set in Futura

― Charles Harry Augustus Mellowtongue (Jonas), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, that's Futura for sure.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Palatino Linotype has long replaced Verdana for me.

― DavidM* (unreal), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

my font type today: the "ben shahn" font.

http://www.fontshop.com/?fuseaction=catalog.fontpackage&searchby=manufacturer&displayfontid=FF.11392.0.0

― passiflora incarnata (get bent), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://web.utk.edu/~glenn/ShahnMcCarthy.gif

― passiflora incarnata (get bent), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.eyecandyforthebrokenhearted.com/font.gif

Aptly named Declaration by Veer.

― It's a hard world for little things... (papa november), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

Helvetica - The Movie!

http://www.helveticafilm.com/

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes I feel like a serif (ITC Cushing) and sometimes I don't (Gill Sans).

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I think New Century Schoolbook worked well here:

http://www.dreamboatrecords.co.uk/pr/drone1/artwork/drone1-500.jpg

It started off looking like this and was inspired by these:

http://www.acme.com/jef/singing_science/space.jpg

Is there a thread for people to post their own designs?

― caek (caek), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ungh. Started off looking like the second of these.

― caek (caek), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

nine months pass...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/imagine/

Imagine...
Tue 6 Nov, 10:35 pm - 11:25 pm 50mins

Helvetica

Helvetica is a shorter version of the witty feature-length film by Gary Hustwit about the most popular typeface in the world, which celebrates its 50th birthday this year. Why Helvetica? Because it is everywhere. Millions of people use it and read it everyday, on public transport, newspapers, shop fronts, and, of course, their computers.

Through interviews with designers and sometimes eccentric type enthusiasts, the film tells the story of how a typeface drawn by a little-known Swiss designer in 1957 became one of the most popular ways for us to communicate. It has been described as the Kate Moss of fonts - ultrathin, misunderstood and plastered all over the tabloids.

Though Helvetica has gone in and out of fashion it has never gone away, and the film asks whether this is a symptom of globalisation or simply a reflection that it is the ultimate typeface, with a 'feeling of finality about it'. Some strong language.

"Some Strong Language"!

― koogs, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

I was meant to see this last Thursday, but its release was delayed or whatnot, despite Ireland's Design Week practically hanging off it. I also designed a poster for it in Belgium despite never seeing it...apparently that was 'the point'.

I was the epitome of porn for many type heads, though.

― o-ess, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

"I was the epitome of porn" ?! 8)

― koogs, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

i saw this a while ago and liked it
some people showed up in arial tshirts harhar

i am pretty steadfastly times/new roman but prob only out of habit. when i started computering back in the day on macs i decided early on new century schoolbook. now recently back with macs, it doesn't appear to be an installed option :/ i do like georgia. maybe it is time for change.

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

my birthday invitation was in bauhaus

― get bent, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9411/frankfurterah4.png

― libcrypt, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 01:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/80/bcebef17c7c01b2e6917e3aph7.png

― caek, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

Caslon, these days.

― Casuistry, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

garamond is nice if i remember correctly

― youn, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

I am currently designing comp sheets/letterheads for an actress in Bodoni with body text in Century Gothic why because it look feminine

― caek, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

Also, where is my Helvetica DVD which I pre-ordered in like 1998.

― caek, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

har
ohyeah i do like garamond
i think our graphic designer just got like 100,000 new fonts. i will ask him waht a robyn font should look like

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

i am all about century gothic these days.

― haitch, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 01:26 (eighteen years ago)

...waht a robyn font should look like

http://i24.tinypic.com/10n81h1.png

― libcrypt, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

middle one! but less bubbly with more irregular skinnier lines! and y's need longer tail off to left. oh man what if everyone's handwriting could be turned into a font. next level uncanny nation

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

I like garamond and comic sans - don't usually use anything for English text other than Times New Roman though

― Heave Ho, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

there's a program that does that, but I can't remember which one.

I'd want it for my 'toons.

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

Scala Sans ftw

― stet, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

PP, do you have any toons to show off to us?

― libcrypt, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

Some ancient ones can be found here. The only recent stuff I've done is on that "Arbuckle" page, but I got me one of them fancy tablets for my birthday, so I'm going to try to get back into it.

You're sweet for asking.

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

~~"I was the epitome of porn"~~

whoops. IT I meant, obviously...

― o-ess, Thursday, 8 November 2007 01:31 (eighteen years ago)

I like garamond and comic sans -

ITC Garamond trumps Adobe Garamond, btw.

Careful admitting you like Comic Sans.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 8 November 2007 02:12 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

I really like the Centro Pro family, which won Best Original Typeface at the European Design Awards 2008.

― Alba, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 00:55 (seventeen years ago)

is it possible to have a career in font design? can I give up my cushy 'new media' job and become a full-time font designer?

Futura is my favourite for sans-serif business and headers and so on. Adobe Garamond wins for serif stuff like basic body text and things I need to print out. I prefer it to normal Garamond for its superior italics.

― asey, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 10:31 (seventeen years ago)

euro 2008 has thrown up some odd typefaces. those shirt numbers they were using the other night looked like My First Bitmap Font.

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/20071125886/history/euro-2008-football-shirt-numbers.html

― koogs, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 13:58 (seventeen years ago)

There was a time pre-Millennium when I was mad about Impact. Woe to the tab pages I designed.

― Terrible Cold, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 14:15 (seventeen years ago)

My favourite font of the moment is Neue Steinschrift.
http://www.preusstype.com/steinschrift_pro.php
Obviously not an all purpose font, but when it's used in the right context it's great.

― treefell, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.kitbag.com/product_images/maxzoom/prd_maxzoom_kb-733916-01-Gattuso.jpg

Italy's has this weird hairy pixel trimming.

― Alba, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)

A few that are in heavy rotation right now:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/font-samples_20080611.png

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

I really like the Centro Pro family, which won Best Original Typeface at the European Design Awards 2008.

Oooh.

http://bp0.blogger.com/_iC_yDAQbwr8/SCBJRISurMI/AAAAAAAAAVk/ooXtthq_0cA/s400/fig_24.jpg

A+

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 17:43 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.rotovibe.com/images/wexford_medium.gif

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of Wexford Medium? Willing to pay.

― caek, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:23 (seventeen years ago)

FIXEDSYS 4 LIFE

― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:25 (seventeen years ago)

recently feeling the SIGN PAINTER these days

― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:30 (seventeen years ago)

Caek -

Found a filesharing messageboard that said this:

Looking for Eton (Optifont/Castcraft) [ May also go under the name of Wexford (Medium, and so on)

If Wexford is indeed the same as Eton then this points to UK company Fontware as being a supplier of it.

― Alba, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:38 (seventeen years ago)

Caek, I'm still not sure there's an electronic version. I spoke to a foundry which had wexford, but it wasn't even the same font.

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:41 (seventeen years ago)

thank you both, will let you know if I turn anything up

― caek, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:47 (seventeen years ago)

That's the foundry I spoke to. Their wexford is something else. That image of Wexford was posted by someone on a font identification board in response to my question. They didn't know whether there was an electronic version. I'm assuming your interest is also My Bloody Valentine related...

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

I've been looking forever :(

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/forum/viewthread.php?threadid=50076

"Wexford Medium -- issued by VGC -- digital by Castcraft’s OPTIFonts as Eton (they are difficult to deal with and expensive)"

― caek, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:04 (seventeen years ago)

Not so much MBV. I'm looking to do a kind of pastiche of Blue Note album artwork without usng Bauhaus, which I have an irrational hatred of.

― caek, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:08 (seventeen years ago)

I invented this font in MS paint a while ago because I couldn't find a 3x3 font that I liked. Soon I found a site that allowed me to build it-- but it took out some of the stuff I wanted, like monospace (as it stands some shapes are 1x3 or 2x3, like periods and spaces and brackets) but other than that I love it, it is my font, and btw if anyone knows how to fix my monospace woes I can hook you up.

http://i26.tinypic.com/sb4i6e.gif

― Will M., Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:08 (seventeen years ago)

xp, I'm something like this: http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote5/nbn4%20081.jpg

― caek, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:09 (seventeen years ago)

I'm looking for something like this.

― caek, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

How about Horatio Bold?

― Alba, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:22 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

interesting idea, terrible font
http://www.ecofont.eu/look_at_ecofont_en.html

i have my browser set to use vag rounded by default. it makes reading bbc reports of mass murder seem like fun...

― koogs, Thursday, 18 December 2008 10:46 (seventeen years ago)

rotis. Still loving it.

― mose def (kenan), Thursday, 18 December 2008 11:11 (seventeen years ago)

oh hey can you send me that font (VAG i mean)? used to have but lost it somehow xp

― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Thursday, 18 December 2008 11:12 (seventeen years ago)

is on the laptop but i just downloaded it from a free font site like this one (but it wasn't this exact one):

http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts-v.html

― koogs, Thursday, 18 December 2008 11:55 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

we use that ecofont in our company now.

― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:21 (sixteen years ago)

Font 242.

― StanM, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:05 (sixteen years ago)

six months pass...

I need a modern looking sans serif font for our company logos, any ideas?

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 22:15 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

I'm only a minor font nerd, but I thought this was cool:
http://iotic.com/averia/

― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 16:32 (thirteen years ago)

Frutiger STD & its many incarnations has been my go-to practical-use font for some time now.

― fishermen are coveted by whores & stoners (Pillbox), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 16:42 (thirteen years ago)

I have a longstanding love of 50s scripty fonts like Murray Hill, probably ingrained from childhood via motel signage like Holiday Inn.

http://www.sostars.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/holiday-inn-hotels.jpg

― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 16:59 (thirteen years ago)

ten months pass...

The 2013 Academy Awards: the typefaces used on the posters of the Oscar-winning films

― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 16 March 2013 16:58 (thirteen years ago)

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