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I have spent the last two nitemarish months in my capacity as brand guru trying to find a screenfont that is acceptable to the whole organisation I work for, and this thread is starting to give me flashbacks.

You should have just went for the Comic Sans!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

Lucida Grande is like a bad version of Trebuchet.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

I prefer Tiresias.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

Very nice.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

Garamond since '98

Holla!

― pholm, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

Lucida Grande is like a bad version of Trebuchet.

I'm not that crazy about Trebuchet, but it would make a great baby name.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

Lucida Grande is like a bad version of Trebuchet.

I used to use Trebuchet but it has a harshness to it on my laptop screen that's hard on my eyes after awhile.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

Caslon Antique!

Bonus points for those who can name the band who used this font!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

Trick of the trade:

http://www.identifont.com

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

Bonus points for those who can name the band who used this font!

This looks similar:

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

That's not who I was thinking of, but that DOES look a lot like it

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

(DEAR GOD I USED "WHO" INSTEAD OF "WHOM" SLIT MY WRISTS PLEASE)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

AARGH i know what you're thinking of too, but what is it?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

XTC?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

Johnston! of course! what a brain-mong that was...

i am reading ILX in Helvetica Rounded MT Bold

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

(DEAR GOD I USED "WHO" INSTEAD OF "WHOM" SLIT MY WRISTS PLEASE)

You also ended the original phrase with a preposition.

Eh, what are you gonna do?

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

I knew that too, but I feel worse about the who/whom.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:49 (9 years ago) Permalink

Caslon Antique *is* the Chronic Town font

XTC's Nonsuch uses something else

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

BUT THERE IS ANOTHER

(This may very well turn into a game of "guess what I'm thinking and type your answers in 'Symbol'" - not that that's a bad thing)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:56 (9 years ago) Permalink

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:56 (9 years ago) Permalink

ding ding ding!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

yup. that's the one.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:59 (9 years ago) Permalink

*starts humming the various riffs*

Anyway, both Lucida Grande and Trebuchet sound like exotic diseases. Much about all of you is explained.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:15 (9 years ago) Permalink

The Trebuchet is a 16th century seige engine. Kinda like a catapult, but based on gravity for it's chucking power.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

Oh, trust me, I know. You live with SCA fanatics for a while, you learn a little too much.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

This seems like a good place for a foreskin joke.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:20 (9 years ago) Permalink

Smug vs. smeg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

You have made me hate Tom Cruise even more.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

That's hard to do!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'm a huge fan of CA Aires Pro from the folks at Cape Arcona.

― Mike Salmo (salmo), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

I've been using Chalet from House Industries lately, a nice twist on Bauhaus and a great alternative to Helvetica, Avant Garde and Futura if you're bored with them:

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

and of course there's DIN MittelSchrift:

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

The "New York 60" one is really nice.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

Akzidenz Grotesk representin' for the NYC MTA:

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:56 (9 years ago) Permalink

And Highway Gothic for all the commuters out there

Though technically the exact "highway sign font" is "FHWA Series E modified"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:06 (9 years ago) Permalink

http://www.visi.com/fall/news/mesfont.html

― ferg (Ferg), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

Also: http://www.jh3.com/robyn/

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

I wish i could talk in comic sans.

― mandee, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

what about 'geezah' and 'geeza pro', geezaesthetes?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

microgramma looks alot like eurostile to me. i really lie the angles in highways gothic there. lately i've been favouring bank gothic:

for headings, not body copy obv

and when i need a serif font i always lean towards bernhard modern

the circumstances where i can use this one are rare but i absolutely love the high ascenders and low descenders.