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microgramma looks alot like eurostile to me. i really lie the angles in highways gothic there. lately i've been favouring bank gothic:
http://www.identifont.com/samples/bitstream/BankGothic.gif
for headings, not body copy obv

and when i need a serif font i always lean towards bernhard modern
http://www.transaction-one.com/gs/html/a/adobe/fontstore/en/type/browser/gifs/BERT/C_BERT-10012000.GIF
the circumstances where i can use this one are rare but i absolutely love the high ascenders and low descenders.

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

verdana, but sometimes I'm a Trebuchet MS

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I really like the Paris 60/80 in Spencer's.

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm on crack

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, i meant high ascenders contrasted to the modest descenders.

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I miss aja

Yes we have no bananas

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

times new roman.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to like arial, but it gets ugly when it's bigger than 14px unless it's bold.
This is bold arial 14px

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Microgramma in action. When you absolutely, positively need that "yesterday's future now!" look

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002TQV.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://www.starshipmodeler.com/other/s1_lside.jpg

http://www.metalartslettersandplaques.com/NewFiles/401-microgramma-font.gif

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Always enjoyed arial narrow. I like it tall and skinny.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Arial 10pt == my ideal font.

― cis (cis), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Phantom-Bold

― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

yessssssss

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm reminded to show the love for Harry Beck's London Underground font

http://www.p22.com/products/images/samlon.gif

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Sylfaen for me.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm an Avant-Garde kinda guy:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf700/f750/f75076ykj5n.jpg

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Square721 BdEx BT is practically identical to Microgramma as far as i can see

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Helvetica Neue Bold is still the ideal font.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Switch to Franklin Gothic Heavy and have ILX read as one humungous Guardian headline!

― chris j (chris j), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://base58.com/ilx/vag.gif

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Switch to Franklin Gothic Heavy and have ILX read as one humungous Guardian headline!

Ew, ew, and ew.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The Guardian site however, which uses various weights of Helvetica Neue Extended, is my favorite website design ever.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I am enjoying the free Dream Orphans for headings and Lido as a general, readable sans serif.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I like the name Dream Orphans more than I like the font, though the font is nice enough.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The 'What the Font?' thing upthread is great, but I also like idenifont.com, which allows you to ID a font on the basis of a Q&A session. Fun if you don't actually have a font in mind but just want to state your preferences.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

What does Comic sans MS say about me? That I shoudl be a primary school teacher instead of work in a meeeeedjaaar office?

― badger Kitten (badger Kitten), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lamosca.com/tshirt/img/helvetica.jpg

Gill Sans for headings and best

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

My browser font is Lucida Grande, which is very readable.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Tahoma all caps, uh huh.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

What, no love for Haettenschweiler?? Geez...

Our default font at work is Lucinda Sans Unicode, which I've taken a shining to, actually.

When I'm feeling wacky, I go for VELCRO:

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.fontalicious.com/media/velcro.gif

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I am surprised that after experimenting with other fonts because of this thread, I had to return to TNR because I just couldn't read ILX properly in any of the others. Damn my brane.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sticking with Optima. I discovered that it's the Estée Lauder font too.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

That makes sense.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Though she's got a special accent on her E.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

arial, tahoma and verdana. and wingdings

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Ye gods how did I miss this thread!? Ive been working too hard.

I am a fan of Stone informal, and Stone Sans Bold, which has a nice solid headline/cover feel to it.

I like Trebuchet for screen things like MSN too, the & symbol looks very cool in trebuchet!

Try as I have to experiment tho, in my browser I stick to plain old Times New Roman. I think I've just got too used to it.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 15 April 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Stone sans bold:

http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/gifs/STAQ/A_STAQ-10012000.GIF

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 15 April 2004 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

the quick brown what now?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

I have just been told to use Arial at work. I am no longer to use Trebuchet - it looks "studenty" and "amateur". Thoughts?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

You must be in Finance. (altho there's nothing wrong with Arial, it's my preference).

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Gill Sans is good, although it does make everything you write look like a 1950s railway notice. Of course, that's what it was originally created for.

My blog uses Vagabond Outline for its headings at the moment; but I'm planning to change it to Eras.

Arial, Comic Sans, and all those other MS fonts are pretty much dud. Some are worse than others, though.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

bookman, old style.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Arial is essentially helvetica, tweaked a bit so MS could copyright it. It's plain and useful. No hate from me.

Trebuchet does not look "amateur," unless you have a wide range of fonts to choose from. It's a perfectly good web font. Then again, typography on the web is a big unfunny joke.

I'm going through a Clarendon phase right now, which is a little shameful since everyone else is, too. The menu signs at both Starbucks and Einstein's Bagels are in Clarendon, which diminishes it specialness, sad to say. It really is lovely, though.

― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

if you're writing a paper..it's all about courier new

― heidid24, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

never use courier¡

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that's if you're writing a screenplay, I thought. Times New Roman is still a great font for print.

I love Bodini as a book font.

― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

For Arial haterz:

http://www.mimeartist.com/helvetica/

― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

New York, 12 point. Garamond if I'm forced to use a PC.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 13 August 2004 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i always use 12 pt arial, for work and uni

― gem (trisk), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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