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 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
http://okladki-divx.neostrada.pl/covers/e/eyes_wide_shut.jpg
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:30 (nineteen years ago) link
but i use mostly courier because it's fixed width and available everywhere.
― koogs (koogs), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link
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."
"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 (nineteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― dyson (dyson), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― dyson (dyson), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
img tag was disabled! you can use the i thingie.
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 13 August 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Friday, 13 August 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.fontscape.com/pictures/itc/Shatter.gif
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 01:22 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link