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 (7 years ago) Permalink

perpetua

trebuchet ms

― ambrose (ambrose), Saturday, 25 June 2005 11:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

Arial

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Saturday, 25 June 2005 12:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

Maybe you can find it here.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

ITC Cushing.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

FONTS of wisdom
What's your font type?
Font

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 25 June 2005 15:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

Caslon = lame
Caslon Antique = ROCK

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 25 June 2005 17:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

Arial BOLD
and Adore 64

― Ste (Fuzzy), Sunday, 26 June 2005 10:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

Arial is Helvetica.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 26 June 2005 15:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

Not exactly (but they're almost identical).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

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

― monsanto and yanni (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

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

― monsanto and yanni (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

algerian font, a burning hate

― monsanto and yanni (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

hahaha

Agreed.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

Helvetica Neue Condensed

― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

Helvetica Neue Condensed

Is that what they use on the designers republic site?

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

ah, thanks

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

Cochin, though the screen display is horrendous.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 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 (5 years ago) Permalink

that's Helvetica, thinner than Light tho

― blueski, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

I am laughing at a joke about fonts.

― Hard like armour, Friday, 13 July 2007 00:26 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 July 2007 10:20 (5 years ago) Permalink

Guardian Egyptian - roxor.

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

― Alan, Friday, 13 July 2007 10:24 (5 years ago) Permalink

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

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 July 2007 10:41 (5 years ago) Permalink

tracer's comment is for you Ste

― Alan, Friday, 13 July 2007 10:50 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

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

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 10:58 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

― jeremy waters, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

― libcrypt, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

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

A+

― caek, Friday, 19 September 2008 11:32 (4 years ago) Permalink

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 (4 years ago) Permalink

Hiruko

― They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Friday, 19 September 2008 12:04 (4 years ago) Permalink

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love these new cormac mccarthy editions, especially

― caek, Monday, 8 February 2010 13:42 (3 years ago) Permalink

Am all over Monotype Fournier, as in the title of this edition:

Has lovely ligatures.

And yeah, those McCarthys are beautiful.

― Attention please, a child has been lost in the tunnel of goats. (James Morrison), Monday, 8 February 2010 22:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

font management query: This weekend I intend to get around to the long-overdue task of organizing an increasingly sprawling collection of fonts I've been amassing for the last year or so. In my design-related endeavors, I tend to stick with a core group of 20-30 w/ task-specific additions here and there. Typically, I just load them directly into the system folder via Fontbook (running OS 10.5.8 on an 09 Mac-book Pro). I know that that is not the most efficient way to do things & I would like to start maintaining a better system of organization/categorization.

So basically I'm asking if anyone has any tips on software for this sort of thing. Should I just take the time to learn the features that Fontbook offers for this, or is there a better application (something that doesn't automatically load the fonts into the main folder, preferably, so that I can look at & select typefaces without ending up with a million random fonts bogging down my apps). Freeware is fine, tho I wouldn't mind investing in something if it is worth it. Organizational efficiency & ease of use are my main concerns.

This is a labor that I've pretty much completely neglected up to this point, so any & all advice on the matter would be appreciated. Thanks!

― Man or Austro-Hungarian? (Pillbox), Friday, 19 February 2010 05:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

no takers then? Maybe I should synopsize the long-winded version above: I'm looking for a good font-management system for Macs that does not automatically load the typefaces into the system folder. As there seem to be quite a few different products available for this, I would appreciate anyone's thoughts on the matter.

― Man or Austro-Hungarian? (Pillbox), Friday, 19 February 2010 21:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

good news everybody!

http://www.ascendercorp.com/pr/2010-07-06/

― caek, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

Let Folks Know How You Really Feel! $%#@!

― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

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

― grandma: smells and textures :: 180 (dayo), Monday, 6 September 2010 01:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

futura?

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 September 2010 01:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

Fixedsys EXCELSIOR

― optimizing the emotional effects of Redneck Hoe by Insane Clown Posse (corey), Monday, 6 September 2010 01:46 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

that's not futura (see lower case a)

― caek, Monday, 6 September 2010 06:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― caek, Monday, 6 September 2010 14:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

din1451 is the most depressing face in the world

― caek, Monday, 6 September 2010 14:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

rotis = a+ though

― caek, Monday, 6 September 2010 14:50 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

ymmv

― kenan, Monday, 6 September 2010 14:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

...on the Autobahn!

― kenan, Monday, 6 September 2010 14:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

― kenan, Monday, 6 September 2010 15:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

boldfaced Cheltanham

― funky brewster (San Te), Monday, 6 September 2010 15:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― kenan, Monday, 6 September 2010 15:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― kenan, Monday, 6 September 2010 16:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

― 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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― grandma: smells and textures :: 180 (dayo), Monday, 6 September 2010 23:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

?Aktiv!

― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 13:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Helvetica Bold
Helvetica Bold
Helvetica Bold

― doo doo frown :( (Stevie D), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

Wow, that's total vom

― doo doo frown :( (Stevie D), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 18:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

4 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 (2 years ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

http://type.method.ac/

i got 73/100

― caek, Saturday, 8 October 2011 13:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

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

― remy bean, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― the late great, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

i know. i'm interested in the font.

― remy bean, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

8 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 (5 months ago) Permalink

http://www.yourfonts.com/

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

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

― just1n3, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 03:47 (5 months ago) Permalink

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