So, what fonts are you digging at the moment?

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I'm thinking of making a couple of t-shirts today, iron-on transfer style. I was wondering what would look good, so thought I'd ask, what fonts have been floating yr boats recently?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Saturday, 25 June 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

perpetua

trebuchet ms

― ambrose (ambrose), Saturday, 25 June 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

Arial

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Saturday, 25 June 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

SW Crawl Body
FHWA-based fonts
Engschrift (based on UK highway signs)
Mittelschfrift (based on German highway signs)

― Ian Riese-Moraine eats nation-states for breakfast! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 25 June 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

For sheer utility in print, I have come around to appreciating Bulmer. It kerns easily and looks decent with using any fancy finials or anything. And I love the numbers.

Also, Caslon gets me juicy.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Caslon reminds me of some font Peter Saville used for one of his sleeve designs. I think it was for OMD or Section 25.

― Ian Riese-Moraine eats nation-states for breakfast! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you can find it here.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

ITC Cushing.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

A tad irritating: you can download fonts from many of Saville's most popular sleeves from his site, but he doesn't tell you what they are. Unless he cut them all himself, which I somehow doubt. It's probably for copyright reasons.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 25 June 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

FONTS of wisdom
What's your font type?
Font

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 25 June 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Wait, it was the sleeve for The Monochrome Set's Strange Boutique Caslon reminded me of -- which was a Saville design.

― Ian Riese-Moraine eats nation-states for breakfast! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 25 June 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

i think caslon's becoming a little cliche, but it's still nice.

― monsanto and yanni (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 25 June 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

is there a definitive list of fonts used in googie/atomic style signage?

― monsanto and yanni (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 25 June 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

i think caslon's becoming a little cliche

Maybe, but only because it comes with Creative Suite. It is really nice. Fancy, even.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 25 June 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Caslon = lame
Caslon Antique = ROCK

http://gvelay.free.fr/gta/sisters/first_and_last.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 25 June 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Arial BOLD
and Adore 64

― Ste (Fuzzy), Sunday, 26 June 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

My employers have just come up with a new visual identity. Arial, basically (not sure how much the designers charged for that). If we are doing publications that absolutely must have a second font, we can use Garamond - I've talked to our prospectus/study guide/etc. people and they are taking that as permission to do all their body text in Garamond, which they were already doing. We are now having arguments about whether we can use Helvetica for the various reports printed directly from a unix server via Oracle reports - I've put in a report saying it would be lots of work changing it, possibly more work in the future when upgrading since Arial is not standard with the installations, and we are currently using Helvetica, which is standard, which almost no one can distinguish from Arial anyway, so it would be a lot of work for a pretty undetectable difference. I hope this argument will be accepted.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 26 June 2005 10:31 (twenty years ago)

I was going to say COMIC SANS but then I realized joking about comic sans is even worse than the font itself. I need to update my font jokes.

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Sunday, 26 June 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Arial is Helvetica.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 26 June 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Not exactly (but they're almost identical).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

True, it's a poor copy but basically intended to be a copy.
http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that was my point in my report - you can see a difference at the top of the lowercase t, the tail of the lowercase a and a few other places, but you have to really look for it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 26 June 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

http://flickr.com/groups/anti-arial/

― monsanto and yanni (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/groups/comicsans/

― monsanto and yanni (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

i'm certainly not digging scotch (text regular, 9.8pt locked to a 10.011pt incremental grid, for the real font geeks), because i'm subbing away in it right now. and i'd rather be at home eating my tea.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

algerian font, a burning hate

― monsanto and yanni (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

hahaha

Agreed.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Helvetica Neue Condensed

― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Helvetica Neue Condensed

Is that what they use on the designers republic site?

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

That's either Helvetic Neue Heavy or a very slight custom variation. While not condensed, the letters are tracked almost on top of each other.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

It is a little bit customized, near as I can tell. Vertically squashed ever so slightly.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

ah, thanks

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Cochin, though the screen display is horrendous.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

favour: can any font nerds id the bit used for "rock & talk" here pls?

http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/detail.do?group=mobilephones&type=mobilephones&subtype=sprint&model_cd=SPH-M620ZKASPR

― ^@^, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

that's Helvetica, thinner than Light tho

― blueski, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

I was going to say COMIC SANS but then I realized joking about comic sans is even worse than the font itself. I need to update my font jokes.

I saw these three fonts walk into a bar. The barman said "Get out! We don't serve your type here!

― Forgot My Pencil, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

I am laughing at a joke about fonts.

― Hard like armour, Friday, 13 July 2007 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

I'm in need of a font love at the moment, nothing is doing it for me on my blog anymore. Fed up of Georgia. I need something that says 'retro'

― Ste, Friday, 13 July 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

top 10 fonts of 2006 - http://typographica.org/001103.php

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 July 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Guardian Egyptian - roxor.

iPhone is all about reclaiming Helvetica (and Marker Felt :-P)

― Alan, Friday, 13 July 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

i've always been a big fan of mrs. eaves

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 July 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

tracer's comment is for you Ste

― Alan, Friday, 13 July 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

so who's excited about the Helvetica movie? Anyone seen it yet?

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.typotheque.com/fonts/greta_text/ and http://www.typotheque.com/fonts/greta_display/ are doing it for me at the moment. They sent me a lovely brochure.

Not seen the Helvetica movie yet, but I've pre-ordered the DVD.

― caek, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://typography.com/fonts/font_overview.php?productLineID=100032 Chronicle Text is tasty, but a bit costly. Don't know if can be faffed with different weights for different papers, either.

Pre-ordered Helvetica movie too; waiting to see how the haters (like me) put themselves across.

― stet, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...

http://johnnyr.com/images/blecky2008-04-24.gif

― jeremy waters, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/792/otmce1.png

― libcrypt, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.typotheque.com/fonts/brioni/

A+

― caek, Friday, 19 September 2008 11:32 (seventeen years ago)

Someone needs to do one of these slab serifs with a full set of mathematical symbols so I can set my thesis in something that doesn't look awful.

(yes, yes, http://www.pctex.com/Lucida_Fonts.html)

― caek, Friday, 19 September 2008 11:42 (seventeen years ago)

Hiruko

― They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Friday, 19 September 2008 12:04 (seventeen years ago)

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what font is this? see it often in old us government stuff

― grandma: smells and textures :: 180 (dayo), Monday, 6 September 2010 01:00 (fifteen years ago)

futura?

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 September 2010 01:40 (fifteen years ago)

Fixedsys EXCELSIOR

― optimizing the emotional effects of Redneck Hoe by Insane Clown Posse (corey), Monday, 6 September 2010 01:46 (fifteen years ago)

futura looks like a good bet. for some reason the spacing/negative space really gets me.

xp I fucking love fixedsys. brings back so many memories of chatting on IRC.

― grandma: smells and textures :: 180 (dayo), Monday, 6 September 2010 01:48 (fifteen years ago)

that's not futura (see lower case a)

― caek, Monday, 6 September 2010 06:41 (fifteen years ago)

it's not http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/itc/kabel/ either which was my next bet (lower case g)

― caek, Monday, 6 September 2010 06:45 (fifteen years ago)

I am mad for Gill Sans at the moment. I hope this does not mean that I am turning into a nonce.

― The New Dirty Vicar, Monday, 6 September 2010 10:17 (fifteen years ago)

well whatever it is, it evokes a feeling of pre-50s America - seem to recall it or something very close to it being used awfully lot on packaging, magazines, etc.

― grandma: smells and textures :: 180 (dayo), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:07 (fifteen years ago)

it's not this (e.g. G, 4, ?), but this is very, very close and was apparently released mid-50s: http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/paratype/journal-sans/

― caek, Monday, 6 September 2010 11:12 (fifteen years ago)

Hmm, intrigued by that, maybe it's an alternate glyph set of Futura? It's probably worth asking at the Typophile forum:

http://typophile.com/

― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 6 September 2010 12:04 (fifteen years ago)

ha, i'm already on the case there, which is where the journal sans suggestion came from

― caek, Monday, 6 September 2010 14:03 (fifteen years ago)

Actually the line near the bottom that says "An unaffiliated and non-partisan" etc. does have the Futura lowercase a. Near as I can tell, that actually is a heavy, oblique flavor of Futura.

― kenan, Monday, 6 September 2010 14:20 (fifteen years ago)

I haven't posted on this thread or two years. I have catching up to do.

Rotis
Interstate
Rockwell (must be kerned carefully, though)
Eagle
Din 1451

― kenan, Monday, 6 September 2010 14:43 (fifteen years ago)

din1451 is the most depressing face in the world

― caek, Monday, 6 September 2010 14:49 (fifteen years ago)

rotis = a+ though

― caek, Monday, 6 September 2010 14:50 (fifteen years ago)

I love the caps of Din mittelschrift. Round, yet still somehow severe. Even when it has curves, they still mean business, buddy.

― kenan, Monday, 6 September 2010 14:56 (fifteen years ago)

ymmv

― kenan, Monday, 6 September 2010 14:57 (fifteen years ago)

...on the Autobahn!

― kenan, Monday, 6 September 2010 14:59 (fifteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Old_Autobahn_DE.jpg

― kenan, Monday, 6 September 2010 15:00 (fifteen years ago)

boldfaced Cheltanham

― funky brewster (San Te), Monday, 6 September 2010 15:08 (fifteen years ago)

I must more specifically defend the all-caps Din 1451.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/evil-din.png

― kenan, Monday, 6 September 2010 15:23 (fifteen years ago)

i live in germany which may be something to do with why i find it so bleak. all caps is better though.

― caek, Monday, 6 September 2010 15:57 (fifteen years ago)

I can't stand Rotis anymore, it just got so overused in the nineties (when I probably also used it too much). Give me ten years maybe?

Loving P22 Underground at the moment.

I really want to get hold of a usable body version of Unica Haas for those times when people say they want Helvetica, and I want to give them something different: http://ministryoftype.co.uk/words/article/haas_unica/

― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 6 September 2010 16:03 (fifteen years ago)

http://typophile.com/node/73890

Ah, I see the typophile crew have ID'd it as 'Vogue' which has never been digitised, although there is a font similar: http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/12605

― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 6 September 2010 16:06 (fifteen years ago)

Where was Rotis overused? It's no Clarendon or something.

― kenan, Monday, 6 September 2010 16:12 (fifteen years ago)

It just really screams 90s to me, I remember it being used in magazines, posters and record covers all the time and it seemed to be a really poplar font with the other students at university in the middle part of the decade; and, for a while, I used it on almost everything too - which is probably why I have a problem with it now!

But, I'm probably come back round to it in the future, I can appreciate it, no doubt.

― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 6 September 2010 17:36 (fifteen years ago)

lol the ider on the typophile is the dude who wrote this old thing about futura in royal tenenbaums http://www.marksimonson.com/article/87/royal-tenenbaums-world-of-futura

― caek, Monday, 6 September 2010 19:38 (fifteen years ago)

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 12:03 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

interesting, I just finished reading

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/july/the-helvetica-killer

which was linked to in the helvetica thread

― grandma: smells and textures :: 180 (dayo), Monday, 6 September 2010 23:39 (fifteen years ago)

lol, found the aktiv discussion thread on typophile. pretty interesting

― grandma: smells and textures :: 180 (dayo), Monday, 6 September 2010 23:41 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I'd quite like to try Aktik - but business is slow at the moment so I can't justify buying it yet.

― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 13:41 (fifteen years ago)

?Aktiv!

― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 13:41 (fifteen years ago)

Any of you tried the WhatTheFont app for iPhone? Take a picture of words and it ID's the font

― I JUST NEED TO SING "CRAZY FOR YOU" TO KNOW HOW MY HEART FEELS (Stevie D), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 13:51 (fifteen years ago)

what font do you use for comic lettering if you want to go classier than comic sans?
(ha ha i prefer comic sans to whatever comicraft uses -- it seems more honest)

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 17:56 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Helvetica Bold
Helvetica Bold
Helvetica Bold

― doo doo frown :( (Stevie D), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:22 (fifteen years ago)

I am really in love with the Fell family revived by Igino Marini. IM Fell French Canon and De Walpergen's Pica are my new go-tos, and they pass as Times New Roman for things that need to pass –– although they're a lot more elegant and classic. The whole family is available for free @

http://iginomarini.com/fell/the-revival-fonts/

― once a remy bean always a (remy bean), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:31 (fifteen years ago)

this site is like a 90s/early internet font time capsule http://www.haroldsfonts.com/frontpage.html

― HOLY MONEY HOLY LOL (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:54 (fifteen years ago)

Wow, that's total vom

― doo doo frown :( (Stevie D), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 18:10 (fifteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

So I'm looking to get my first tattoo in a couple of weeks- the Trystero post horn from The Crying of Lot 49 with "W.A.S.T.E." underneath, on my left wrist. Problem is, I have no idea what font or lettering style to use for the text. I am confused and my entire font knowledge consists of "Comic Sans haha no" and "That Helvetica movie was nice." Totally open to suggestions.

― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 04:33 (fifteen years ago)

ten months pass...

http://type.method.ac/

i got 73/100

― caek, Saturday, 8 October 2011 13:02 (fourteen years ago)

seven months pass...

BUMP. Can anybody give me a lead on (free) typefaces, similar to those used on Western Union telegrams, e.g.:

http://www.tonyrogers.com/news/images/westernunion_telegram.jpg

― remy bean, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:07 (fourteen years ago)

feel like that's less about the font and more about the paper effect

― the late great, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:12 (fourteen years ago)

i know. i'm interested in the font.

― remy bean, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:30 (fourteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Does anyone here know about making fonts? I'm designing a graphic novel and for the word bubble text need to create a font from the author's handwriting. What is the best, most efficient program to use to do this? OSX preferred but i can do Windows 7 as well.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 00:23 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.yourfonts.com/

http://www.yourfonts.com/print.html

Use the special National Handwriting Day coupon that allows you to make as many fonts as you like for FREE! Of course the coupon can only be used during National Handwriting Day; January 23, 2013.

Use coupon CPN4MOM2013 when you check out and receive your font for free!

― just1n3, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 03:47 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

FONT END TIMES

http://qz.com/167993/frere-jones-is-suing-hoefler-for-his-half-of-the-worlds-preeminent-digital-type-foundry/

― carson dial, Friday, 17 January 2014 02:26 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

What fonts am I digging at the moment?

NOT THIS ONE http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/214585/this-human-flesh-font-is-the-worst-thing-to-ever-happen-to-your-psyche/

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 8 February 2014 00:56 (twelve years ago)

When in doubt, I reach for Blue Highway. I'm locked into a groove.

― pplains, Saturday, 8 February 2014 01:14 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-08/font-war-inside-the-design-worlds-20-million-divorce

― sktsh, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 11:58 (twelve years ago)

five years pass...

had to block the custom font used on the redesign of this because it was driving me bats with its random italics and random backwards-sloping italics.

https://www.itsnicethat.com/news

― koogs, Thursday, 16 January 2020 09:24 (six years ago)

seven months pass...

Times New Roman VS. Arial pic.twitter.com/pubzmxBE8b
— Oded Rechavi 🦉 (@OdedRechavi) September 8, 2020

Arial still all butthurt about Calibri moving in, taking it out on total innocents

― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 00:37 (five years ago)

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