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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)

it's all Tahoma for me

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

tahoma's good

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:14 (twenty-one years ago)

It's such a cliche, but I used to love Juice. That was The Lollies' font.

I hate Arial, even though I always end up using it. I prefer Trebuchet myself, I actually love that font, Mark, so you are not alone. Also Verdana is nice, too.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Here around the print shop that doubles as my home, the girls have been using Mrs. Eaves a lot.

My letterhead is in Franklin Gothic, grey-blue. I wasn't thinking Guardian-- I was going for that ultra-serious 1950s non-fiction trade paperback look.

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I can understand why Comic has its haterz, but I use it because it's the easiest (commonly available) font for people with dyslexia to read and seeing as I work in SEN, it's just necessary.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

What is SEN?

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 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a huge crush on Futura.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops.

http://okladki-divx.neostrada.pl/covers/e/eyes_wide_shut.jpg

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Special Educational Needs. Sorry, jargon and that.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, Madchen, I should have known that. Because I sit in "sales" and not "operations", I don't get to hear the jargon around here.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

My all-time favourite is Toulouse-Lautrec, but I've not been able to get my hands on it since, like, 1999. Otherwise, it's all about Arial Narrow.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I am sick of Trebuchet cos of FT site - I guess I'm done with Georgia too...Geneva then

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate - this is a useful page (and site in general)
http://www.dyslexic.com/database/articles/fonts.html

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

futura is good - it's the pale saints font

but i use mostly courier because it's fixed width and available everywhere.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone know what's the font they use for underground maps?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Sigh. Joe would know. His dad did the digisisation of the tube maps.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Or rather, digitisation. Or would that be digitalisation?

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Ken, if you read the thread you'd find out

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Garamond for posh, Verdana for sans purposes. Standard is Arial around here, which is OK and at least readable. Trebuchet seems to be popular amongst ILXors but I think it's a bit skinny.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Futura and Frutiger and Calisto and of course Gill Sans and Johnston Underground too. I hate Goudy. The company likes it, creating similar spreadsheet-format arsing about.
Kubrik just loved Futura didn't he? 2001:ASO poster here

xpost underground font=johnston underground but gill sans is close

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Kubrik just loved Futura didn't he? 2001:ASO poster here

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."

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Tony's right (just after the bit you quoted, kenan), Bembo looks good. Never looked properly before.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

What web designers have to live with is this:

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 (twenty-one years ago)

aha cheers cabbage

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

any diff in garamonds "ITC" "Adobe" and "Simoncini" ? i appear to have them all

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't work in finance! I work in a vibrant, creative film and tv company! Well, maybe not creative, more parasitical, but still.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Comic has its haterz, but I use it because it's the easiest (commonly available) font for people with dyslexia to read
i have never ever heard that before - & i'm a designer¡
& i'm dyslexic.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

i guess i may be wrong; i pulled this copy from a writing for dyslexics site:
I assumed the
> reason visually impaired students seemed to prefer sans was for the same
> reason dyslexics do: because serif letters blend into each other. Not
> exactly, one student told me. It's because of the uniformity of most sans
> serif fonts. Serif letters tend to thin in places, but most sans serif
> fonts have uniform thickness throughout. This student told me she actually
> loses parts of serif letters because she can't see the thin parts, and she
> can't tell what the letters are. She said she finds 16-point bold Arial
> the easiest to read.

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I do love the idea of all material for dyslexics being printed in Comic Sans.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Learning disabilities are FUN!

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, bother. That was supposed to be in Comic Sans.

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The thing is that there's no universally agreed font which all people with dyslexia find easier than others. My link upthread said that the length of up- and down-strokes makes a difference and some people find it easier to read fonts that immitate handwrighting (which I - not dyslexic - find a nightmare). Have you had a look at Read Regular?

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"handwrighting... not dyslexic"

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I am still the only person who uses Lucinda Sans Unicode...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Ohmigod, those font effects on that page are more disorienting than going on a brightstar machine if you're not dyslexic!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I use it, too, as a backup PC-friendly replacement for Lucida Grande. It's the same thing.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't work in finance! I work in a vibrant, creative film and tv company!

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 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.readregular.com/nederlands/images/header.gif
i want to know if there's a logic for this header going to a lighter blue towards the end.

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

lucinda is the fixed-width one? i use that for my terminal software (if that's the one)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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