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Is it actually Gill Sans? I thought it was just similar, for some reason. Anyway, it's lovely, yes.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Also: FixedSys! For that retro IRC look!

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Copperplate can fuck right off

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

ARIAL FOR LIFE YOU CORNY INDIEFONT FUXXORS

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Bleh. I'm not voting for you now!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

CURSES oh well at least I have four years to court the indiefont vote.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't remember if it's a variant of Gill Sans (the regular one doesn't have diamond dots) or something else entirely now, bleh

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

BLEH X-POST

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

It's Johnson New on the tube.

Gill Sans is wuvvly but doesn't render that nicely in the font sizes I need to use in my Windows IDE. Oh, for having the combination of Mac prettiness with Windows functionality in my working environment.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Times New Roman is my steadfast friend.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

oh no! indiefont guilt! oh no!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been trying to figure out this one for ages. It's the font that appears on the '88-'89 My Bloody Valentine releases. I talked to numerous people and finally nailed it down. It looks like 'bauhaus' but it's not, it's Wexford medium:
http://www.rotovibe.com/images/wexford_medium.gif

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

when i'm feeling classy i go with futura but usually i'm an impact man.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

tahoma and verdana own

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

haha there's a font called FREYA?

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I often wonder how people mock up spoofs of things in Photoshop that rely on the same font being used. There should be some website where you can upload a scan of a letter and it tells you what font it is. Maybe there is.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Hurrah for Spencer's detective work! That's very good knowledge, that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

there is something calming and hypnotic about the phrase "mock up spoofs of things"

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

There should be, yes, but I am doubtful as to whether it's currently possible. You'd certainly need more than a single letter.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I use Georgia for webviewing porpoises. It's quite elegant for a webfont, and those non-aligning numerals... yum.

Otherwise, you cannot be a bit of Garamond.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a soft spot for Courier. It was sad when the US govt abandonded it recently. I use TW Cent at work.

― Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

You cannot beat a bit of Garamond.

You can, in fact, be a bit of Garamond, as I will be the first to tell you. I was a 9 point italic 's' for several months last year.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

There should be some website where you can upload a scan of a letter and it tells you what font it is. Maybe there is.

something similar:

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

It's like I ruled the world.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

You mean you don't!!!!????

― Maddie (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

JTN is right about Georgia.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I have now switched to Georgia.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Always the bandwagon jumper.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Ew - it's all a bit dense with the single spaced New Answers page.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm, I have just switched and am not convinced.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I am thinking of SWITCHING BACK.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I am now reading you in Garamond. This is a distinct improvement.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like the way the underline intersects the bottom loop of the g's, mind. Pre-hypertext font hazards ahoy.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

On reflection, all the descenders look a bit silly when underlined.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I am going with Optima for a while.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes I think ILx might be improved if I read it in Dingbats.

― Carson the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

comic sans LOL

― Mandee, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I said I loved comic sans here at work once to be funny - but my co-worker chimed in with how much she loved it, too.. and how much she loved it in purple, even.

― mandee, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Comic Sans can eat my shorts. I know it's the number one hated font amongst people who care about these things, and so complaining about it is a bit tedious, but I really, really dislike it.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

PURPLE COMIC SANS!

I bet she draws little hearts over her 'i's as well.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the "bittersweet" font:

http://img.1001fonts.com/fonts/509.big.png

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

It makes me laugh just seeing the name - imagine what a whole Health & Safety manual set in it can do to me.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Bittersweet is very attractive.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Which makes you laugh, N. - comic sans, or bittersweet?

― mandee, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, comic sans.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

obituaries should be written in comic sans just to lighten the mood.

― mandee, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually used to type the obituaries at a newspaper. I should have experimented with fonts.

― mandee, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Really, I think everyone would be a lot nicer to each other if all notices were in it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://bancomicsans.com/home.html

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

I really like the Centro Pro family, which won Best Original Typeface at the European Design Awards 2008.

Oooh.

http://bp0.blogger.com/_iC_yDAQbwr8/SCBJRISurMI/AAAAAAAAAVk/ooXtthq_0cA/s400/fig_24.jpg

A+

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

FIXEDSYS 4 LIFE

― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

recently feeling the SIGN PAINTER these days

― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

thank you both, will let you know if I turn anything up

― caek, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

I've been looking forever :(

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

xp, I'm something like this: http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote5/nbn4%20081.jpg

― caek, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

I'm looking for something like this.

― caek, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

How about Horatio Bold?

― Alba, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

interesting idea, terrible font
http://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 (seventeen years ago)

rotis. Still loving it.

― mose def (kenan), Thursday, 18 December 2008 11:11 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

we use that ecofont in our company now.

― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:21 (sixteen years ago)

Font 242.

― StanM, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:05 (sixteen years ago)

six months pass...

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 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

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 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

ten months pass...

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 (thirteen years ago)

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