What's your font type?

I love it!

And yeah, italic type is almost as old as books, but was invented not for emphasis or to make type frilly, but to get as much of it on the page as possible.

georgia

I have here a copy of "An Essay on Typography" by Gill, which was set entirely in Joanna by him. It's a beautiful book, and its contents typically idiosyncratic, wide-ranging, concise, elegant, funny and insane. (Paul Rand's NY Times review is interesting.) Some of my favourite bits:

"There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools."

"The sound of the klaxon hurts our ears — it is meant to do so — lest worse befall us. Were it as rare as the screech of the peacock we should like it — at any rate its assocations would be more delightful."

"It is not the artist who is sentimental—it is the men of business and the man of science."

The choice quote from his entry on Wikipedia is:

"Gill's devout Roman Catholicism did not prevent him from living a bohemian lifestyle and taking lovers. According to the 1989 biography by Fiona MacCarthy, Gill's relationships included two of his sisters and two of his daughters. His personal diaries also describe, in great detail, regular sexual activity between himself and the family dog."

(This is not Wikipedia vandalism. It's true.) Satisyingly, I bought his Essay on Typography at a second-hand book shop in Hay-on-Wye, which is a stone's throw from Capel-y-ffin, where all this fun took place. He's basically my hero. Here's one of his charming etchings asserting the holiness of sex.

http://www.artline.com/galleries/aaron/publications/catalog/gill_bending_92.jpg

http://drzeus.best.vwh.net/wotw/0072.jpg

I used a similar comparison here. It has a few more fonts, but the screenshots are separate and cleartype is always on.

http://website.lineone.net/~manhunter3/video/intro02a.jpg

page: I like century schoolbook, baskerville, book antiqua, caslon, oh I'll put up with just about any nice well-behaved serif that isn't Times, the letter spacing of Times more than anything makes my eyes bleed

titling: ITC Bauhaus, dweebs, 1975 emulating 1925 represent

http://www.fontshop.com/?fuseaction=catalog.fontpackage&searchby=manufacturer&displayfontid=FF.11392.0.0

Aptly named Declaration by Veer.

http://www.helveticafilm.com/

http://www.dreamboatrecords.co.uk/pr/drone1/artwork/drone1-500.jpg

It started off looking like this and was inspired by these:

http://www.acme.com/jef/singing_science/space.jpg

Is there a thread for people to post their own designs?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/imagine/

Imagine...
Tue 6 Nov, 10:35 pm - 11:25 pm 50mins

Helvetica

Helvetica is a shorter version of the witty feature-length film by Gary Hustwit about the most popular typeface in the world, which celebrates its 50th birthday this year. Why Helvetica? Because it is everywhere. Millions of people use it and read it everyday, on public transport, newspapers, shop fronts, and, of course, their computers.

Through interviews with designers and sometimes eccentric type enthusiasts, the film tells the story of how a typeface drawn by a little-known Swiss designer in 1957 became one of the most popular ways for us to communicate. It has been described as the Kate Moss of fonts - ultrathin, misunderstood and plastered all over the tabloids.

Though Helvetica has gone in and out of fashion it has never gone away, and the film asks whether this is a symptom of globalisation or simply a reflection that it is the ultimate typeface, with a 'feeling of finality about it'. Some strong language.

"Some Strong Language"!

I was meant to see this last Thursday, but its release was delayed or whatnot, despite Ireland's Design Week practically hanging off it. I also designed a poster for it in Belgium despite never seeing it...apparently that was 'the point'.

I was the epitome of porn for many type heads, though.

"I was the epitome of porn" ?! 8)

i saw this a while ago and liked it
some people showed up in arial tshirts harhar

i am pretty steadfastly times/new roman but prob only out of habit. when i started computering back in the day on macs i decided early on new century schoolbook. now recently back with macs, it doesn't appear to be an installed option :/ i do like georgia. maybe it is time for change.

my birthday invitation was in bauhaus

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9411/frankfurterah4.png

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/80/bcebef17c7c01b2e6917e3aph7.png

Caslon, these days.

garamond is nice if i remember correctly