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Posted by: brooklyneast05 Mar 13 2010, 08:40 PM
what's your favorite typeface
Posted by: itanium Mar 14 2010, 12:28 AM
What's yours?
also it's a close tie between Akzidenz-Grotesk and Johnston Sans
Posted by: brooklyneast05 Mar 14 2010, 01:50 AM
helvetica neue. akzidenz-grotesk is ok, but helvetica pretty much fixed everything i dislike about akzidenz grotesk. univers maybe sometimes. i like me some baskerville too with a little garamond on the side. i also really like modern typefaces like bodini or didot but i don't think they are that versatile.
Posted by: itanium Mar 14 2010, 03:13 AM
imo the lower-case characters in Helvetica are too tall. that and I don't like the R in Helvetica. Baskerville is probably my favorite serif font, but I've never been a big fan of Garamond. Something about the a ruins it for me. I've been able to work Didot into a few designs, but never bodini.
also this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/LaTeX_Output.svg
LaTeX is dabest
Posted by: mipadi Mar 14 2010, 10:57 AM
Mine tastes mostly fall in line with JC's. I like Helvetica Neue for sans-serif typefaces (although I like to adjust the kerning to make the letters tighter), or Baskerville for serif fonts -- specifically, the Baskerville 13pt. font for body text.
Posted by: Mike Mar 17 2010, 06:42 PM
Gotham and Baskerville.
Posted by: shakeene Apr 14 2010, 07:37 PM
mmm, arial narrow fer sure
Posted by: doughnut Apr 15 2010, 05:05 AM
definite. i really like using that font. serif fonts i like garamond and times new roman.
i know this isnt about what tyepfaces suck. but comic sans is a f*cking eye rape. i die a little every time i see it.
Posted by: itanium Apr 15 2010, 07:41 PM
12 pt. Comic Sans is an acceptable font when printed, but it's terrible otherwise.
Posted by: Cristy Apr 15 2010, 08:09 PM
Comic Sans MS is never acceptable. I couldn't believe that my best friend's teachers let her use that font for papers in high school.
Posted by: itanium Apr 15 2010, 09:25 PM
Acceptable as in doesn't make me want to throw up, not acceptable as in good
Posted by: moorepocket Apr 17 2010, 07:18 PM
didot and johann sparkling itc
Posted by: emberfly Apr 20 2010, 05:52 PM
My computer doesn't have Helvetica... Dafont.com doesn't have it either.
Posted by: doughnut Apr 21 2010, 04:44 AM
imo, comic sans is never acceptable.
i dont have helvetica on my system either ):
Posted by: mipadi Apr 21 2010, 10:17 AM
That's because it's not free, and Microsoft is to cheap to buy a license for it, so they include Helvetica's bastard child Arial instead.
Posted by: Cristy Apr 21 2010, 11:19 AM
Really? I have Helvetica on my laptop.
Posted by: itanium Apr 21 2010, 05:04 PM
iirc photoshop comes with helvetica
Posted by: doughnut Apr 22 2010, 04:19 AM
http://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/
i got 17/20. kind of hard for me to tell uppercases apart.
Posted by: brooklyneast05 May 14 2010, 03:55 PM
this has been growing on me lately 
Posted by: fainaru May 14 2010, 08:25 PM
Rockwell is my easy go-to-font that makes things look trendy and nice.
I like using Futura, Georgia, Arial, Arial rounded, Violation, Script, Jane Austen, Silkscreen, Lucida Sans Unicode, many more!
Posted by: serotonin May 14 2010, 09:01 PM
i like helvetica
Posted by: emberfly May 15 2010, 03:57 PM
i got 17/20. kind of hard for me to tell uppercases apart.
They look excatly the same... except one is thinner (which I like better).. and that one .. according to that link.. is Arial.
Posted by: ButtsexV2 May 15 2010, 04:25 PM
i got 17/20. kind of hard for me to tell uppercases apart.
19/20, BASF tripped me up.
Posted by: Butterface89 Sep 25 2010, 03:34 PM
I like Tahoma out of all the boring computer-built-in fonts. I like wide,short, thin letters.
Posted by: gelionie Sep 25 2010, 03:43 PM
I use Trebuchet MS for sans-serif typing, and I go with Palatino Linotype for school assignments that require a serif font.
I'm more acceptable of Arial than I used to, but I still won't pick it if I had a choice of other fonts.
Posted by: Butterface89 Sep 28 2010, 06:55 PM
I'm more acceptable of Arial than I used to, but I still won't pick it if I had a choice of other fonts.
TREBUCHET is a good font. I like that one, too.