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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
Oooh.
http://bp0.blogger.com/_iC_yDAQbwr8/SCBJRISurMI/AAAAAAAAAVk/ooXtthq_0cA/s400/fig_24.jpg
A+
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
FIXEDSYS 4 LIFE
― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
recently feeling the SIGN PAINTERÂ these days
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
thank you both, will let you know if I turn anything up
― caek, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been looking forever :(
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
xp, I'm something like this: http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote5/nbn4%20081.jpg
― caek, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm looking for something like this.
― caek, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
How about Horatio Bold?
― Alba, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
interesting idea, terrible fonthttp://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 (fifteen years ago) link
rotis. Still loving it.
― mose def (kenan), Thursday, 18 December 2008 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
we use that ecofont in our company now.
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Font 242.
― StanM, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link