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
http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/gifs/STAQ/A_STAQ-10012000.GIF
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 15 April 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 00:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― heidid24, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
I love Bodini as a book font.
― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.mimeartist.com/helvetica/
― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 13 August 2004 06:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:14 (nineteen years ago) link
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
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
― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 08:57 (nineteen years ago) link
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
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
http://okladki-divx.neostrada.pl/covers/e/eyes_wide_shut.jpg
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:30 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link
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."
"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 (nineteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― dyson (dyson), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link