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Sylfaen for me.

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

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 years ago) link

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

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

Helvetica Neue Bold is still the ideal font.

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

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 years ago) link

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

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

Gill Sans for headings and best

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

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

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

Tahoma all caps, uh huh.

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

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 years ago) link

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

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

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 years ago) link

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

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

That makes sense.

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

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

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

arial, tahoma and verdana. and wingdings

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

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 years ago) link

Stone sans bold:

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

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

the quick brown what now?

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

bookman, old style.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― heidid24, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

never use courier¡

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

For Arial haterz:

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

― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 13 August 2004 06:59 (nineteen years ago) link

i always use 12 pt arial, for work and uni

― gem (trisk), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:11 (nineteen years ago) link

it's all Tahoma for me

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:12 (nineteen years ago) link

tahoma's good

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Oops.

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

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Special Educational Needs. Sorry, jargon and that.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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