What is your favorite font?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

I'm curious.

[Shell Beau]

1. Aerial I guess. At least for normal use. I like

Lucinda too!

[Richardo]

2. Palatino

I like the way the upper curves in the capital 'P' and 'R' don't quite touch the vertical. :thumbsup:

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Palatino is a beautiful font!

[CottonBear]

11. I love that one too!

;) I sometimes call it Palamino just for fun! ;)

[trof]

3. The Font of All Knowledge.

that would be me

[SiobhanClancy]

4. Papyrus n/t

[tigereye]

10. me too!

strangely I've been waiting for someone to ask me this question!

[djeseru]

12. Another vote for Papyrus.

There's this gorgeous arabian one that I like as well. I use Times New Roman for my correspondence though.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

14. A third for papyrus!

:D :D

[SiobhanClancy]

16. Maine people have...

good taste! :hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

24. You bet we do!

:hi::hi:

I love your screen name! Siobhan is, like, the best name EVAH. :D :P :D

[hippywife]

33. Add another for papyrus! n/t

[William Bloode]

35. Make it five.

I prefer papyrus as well. It just looks vey elegent to me.

[Book Lover]

5. Can't go wrong with Caslon!

But I'm talking about the hot metal Caslon I'm looking at right now. I have no idea what foundry it's from - maybe M&H?

[TreasonousBastard]

43. I agree with Caslon...

and I have a Casque open face (which is really Caslon stolen by someone-- or vice-versa) that is one of my favorite faces for headings.

I have a dozen or so fonts that I regularly use out of thr hundreds I have, and the biggest problem I see with fonts is when they get in the way of the text. I usually end up using Arial or a simpler serif font just so it doesn't get noticed when someone is reading the text.

Some of the most interesting serif fonts I have just seem to be a bit too much for blocks of text.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Helvetica Neue

[Omphaloskepsis]

7. skia

[WritingIsMyReligion]

15. I really like Skia, as well, on Macs.

:D

[Dukkha]

23. I used that on my last album cover

nice

[Jamastiene]

8. Kidnap.

It's so old punk. I love it.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

13. Eurostile

Very simple sans-serif font...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

17. yeah

:thumbsup:

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

42. My favorite serif font, however, is Lilith Heavy

There's something just neat about this font...

[asthmaticeog]

18. Sand, Impact and Comic Sans.

Couldn't get SHIT done without those three.

[Blue-Jay]

28. IMPACT!

Even the name of that font is impressive! Add it to a nice bright red color, and you're suddenly an unstoppable motherfucker.

[redqueen]

19. Comic Sans MS

[Mutley]

27. That's mine, too.

[XNASA]

45. I'll third Comic Sans.

I try to use it for all work related stuff if I can.

[Elidor]

20. Adobe Jenson Pro

With a full set of discretionary ligatures. Named for one of the pioneers of typsetting, Nicolas Jenson, who created one of the great faces of all time in the 1470's in Italy, on which this type is based. Baskerville is another favorite. Caslon is also quite tasty. And I have to force myself not to overuse Celestia Antiqua.

[pinniped]

21. Bookman Old Style!

Wow, I just checked out this papyrus font and it does look cool.

[Dukkha]

22. Exocet

[GirlinContempt]

25. Fixedsys

keep it real, yo

[clbuck]

26. Myriad Pro

The Apple Computer corporate font used on the ubiquitous iPod ads.

[evlbstrd]

29. Ya see, that's the problem.

There is no favorite font. There is the appropriate typeface for the project.

[Book Lover]

31. But have you no personal preferences?

I am a project manager - I also know about subsuming what one likes for what is market-appropriate or project-correct. But what about when you do your own stuff for fun? :-)

[evlbstrd]

32. It depends on what I'm doing.

I like Adobe Caslon for printed personal correspondence. But I'll try other classic faces. Cartoony, script or gimmicky types don't cut it for me for anything at all.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

34. No - you can have one you have a favorite

[evlbstrd]

37. I may be into a weird territory here.

I was designing with and setting type when the "DTP revolution" happened, and we were suddenly reduced to the thirteen families available to us on the LaserWriter. I don't care if I never see Palatino or Zaph Chancery again.
We're finally getting good typography again with Open Type format faces.
I just can't choose one favorite. Pointing out beautiful designs is another question.

[Left Is Write]

30. I guess I'm boring.

I pretty much stick to Times New Roman, Bookman Old Style, Courier, and Georgia.

[ChoralScholar]

36. Goudy OlSt

[Redstone]

38. For what? Book text? Ornamental heads? Commercial print ads?

Different ones work for different applications.

Rather, ask what typefaces (I'm old, and insist on calling them by the proper name of typefaces, rather than fonts) I despise.

There are three: Lithos, Helvetica, and dammit, that other Swiss font that I despise with the very thin strokes, I can't believe I forgot the name but I'm not going to turn on the other computer so I can look it up. But I despise it as much as I do the other two, and EVERY Swiss, German, and Austrian company still usese it in EVERY one of their print ads.

Just like every American company with zero imagination and an in-house "designer" uses Helvetica, and lots of it. And all the text is always centered.

By the way, that's a GUARANTEED way to spot a print ad (or a web page) that's been "designed" by an amateur: Center-aligned text. think about that as you cruise around the web over the next few days, and tell me it isn't true.

Redstone

[October]

39. Garmond in italics is nice, and Harrington is sweet

I don't know how to display them, though.

[Sugar Smack]

40. I think "JUICE ITC" but that's because it's so comforting.

Or maybe Cute. I also like Californian FB, Gautami and Hattenschweiller.

[politicat]

41. Humanist or Herculanum

The former for most writing, the latter for anything I want pretty.

[DS1]

44. Bureau Grotesque

[AngryAmish]

46. Economist

[Heidi]

47. Verdana. (nt)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

48. Webdings.

If you can read this, you haven't it installed. But I guess it's quite standard now. It can even be installed under Linux -- I got it from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net .

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

49. Not Wingdings

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

50. That one is not freely available for other OSs

Can't legally install it on Linux unless I have a Windows license (i.e. dual-boot machine).