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My favorites tend to be the old standbys - I'm a big fan of futura and gil sans. When I want to get funky, though (and it takes a good deal of proper timing, inspiration, taste, and sugary beverages to get funky) I'm a big fan of some of the classier retro fonts .
What's your favorite?
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I like the brown bag set best. And I'm a big fan of verdana for the Web. Oh, and I think a font based on the title on this Joy Division album cover would be awesome. ----
If you like fonts, check out typophile. It's run by some guys I know.
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Verdena for most things, and Comic Sans when I want the casual look. I like both these because they are easy on my old eyes, and they are pleasing to look at.
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I used to go to coolfonts.com and you could click on a tab that said... "try me!" and type whatever it was you felt like typing and in whatever font size you wanted. There was also a search engine in which you could type a word or phrase and the relating coolfonts.com fonts would appear in front of your very eyes! *tada* But no more...
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For my own composing of manuscripts and emails, I prefer Arial, but for producing printed bulletins and the like for others, I prefer Garamond. When I write long manuscripts, I prefer Bookman Old Style. In all cases, I use 12-point.
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It's all about papyrus which is hilarious and beautiful when it's enlarged to 500 point. *Is easily amused* And also whatever font Smashing Pumpkins used for Mellen Collie and the Infinite Sadness. And various NIN fonts.
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I don't tend to like goofy fonts much, except maybe for banners or other "special" stuff.
I don't so much care what font I use, but if I use a serif for the title, I use a sans serif for the body, and vice-versa. When it's a paper for a class or something formal like that, it's sans serif titles, serif body; that just seems more formal to me. Same with quizzes and tests, but mainly because MS Equation Editor defaults to times new roman, and I want my equations to match the rest of the body text. It's such a pain in the neck to change the defaults on Equation Editor, because it has like twelve default fonts for different things, and changing one doesn't change the others, that I make the rest of my text conform to it rather than vice-versa. If it's my writing, I use serif titles and sans serif body, simply because I have found that with arial 11 point text, double spacing, and one-inch borders, I get the same number of words per page as a typical page out of a novel (don't ask me how I discovered that--you really don't want to know just how anal/OC I am!) and I'm always curious to know how long my manuscript would be in "real" pages. I always reformat it before submitting. Most other writing, like lesson plans or parent letters, I use the serif titles and sans serif body, because that seems easier on the eyes to me, but I also use a nice big typeface for the body.
For fooling around, I like comic sans ms (as anybody who chats with me should know!).
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Here's another site full of uber hip professional (translation: expensive) fonts that I really like.
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quote:I have found that with arial 11 point text, double spacing, and one-inch borders, I get the same number of words per page as a typical page out of a novel (don't ask me how I discovered that--you really don't want to know just how anal/OC I am!)
Hehehe. I actually AM curious how you did it, but even more than that, I'm glad YOU did it so I wouldn't have to figure out how. *hops off to apply "the Icarus' method"*
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I like Arial and Times New Roman. I think after a brief bout of using weird, unreadable fonts as a youth was enough to break me of using weird fonts at all... I really dislike fonts that you can't read at a glance, unless they're being used in graphics or something...
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Depends on what I'm doing. I like Comic Sans MS when I'm writing letters. I've also had several professors when I was in school that preferred it for papers. For fancy casual, I like Bradley Hand ITC or Papyrus. If I need all caps for something, I like Copperplate Gothic. And I've just discovered Eurostile. It's fun. For manuscripts, I use whatever I can find that looks closest to traditional typewriter font.
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For quite a while, I've been on a Garamond/Trebuchet kick. Garamond for body text, and Trebuchet for titles and headers. I think they pair nicely. I use Copperplate quite often as well.
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I don't know if American Typewriter is standard in most word processors, but it's my favorite when I'm trying to duplicate a... typewriter. Posts: 8504 | Registered: Aug 1999
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Strictly speaking, you're all discussing typefaces, not fonts. A font is a typeface at a specific point size. For instance, "Courier" is a typeface; "12pt Courier" is a font.
Yeah, I know you don't care, but I had to clarify anyway. I'm OC that way.
I like Bakersignet for most everyday things (as well as Bookman oldstyle) but my favorite has gotta be Tempus Sans. Love that one!!
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Troubs, there may be a problem with your poll : I haven't been able to vote (no link). Just to let you know Posts: 3526 | Registered: Oct 2001
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Anna, nothing's really supposed to be working there yet anyway, but you have to register to vote in a poll.... Posts: 2245 | Registered: Nov 1998
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Thanks guys, I'll host an "opening party thread" at some point, so as not to entirely hijack this one.
The design of the logo is mine but the site most definitely is not - it's a postNuke theme that I've modified somewhat. But when the site is officially launched, it will utilise my own design.
And hopefully a forum where we can all play mafia... *G*
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Times New Roman is a good all-purpose font. I hate Arial. I like the lines at the bottoms of my words. All the fancy fonts are fun, but I have to see them to know if I want to use them. But everyone can recognize and read TNR. I'd rather have the words shine than the font that presents them.
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Jenny, those "lines at the bottom of words" are called serifs. (Not to be confused with seraphs, which are angels.) Arial is a "sans serif" type, which means it has no serifs. The letters are just straight lines at the upper and lower ends of strokes. New Times Roman, Garamond, Bookman Old Style, and the like are serif types. An interesting compromise is Futura, which does not have actual serifs, but does have odd little swellings or thickenings at the upper and lower ends of strokes in a letter, like serifs that are budding but haven't emerged yet.
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I usually use Times New Roman for my papers and such... When I do Inspiration diagrams for English (note: for those of you who don't know, Inspiration is a program that makes flow charts and outlines and such; I find them handy for my bio notes, and my mother uses them for class sometimes), I like to use Book Antiqua, it makes it easier to read the labels on th little circles. Posts: 873 | Registered: Apr 2003
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I find both Ariel (or Helvetica on the Mac) and Times New Roman harder on my eyes than nice plump typefaces like Verdana, Bookman Old Style, Garamond, Comic Sans, etc. The kerning and leading are also important in terms of being easy on the eyes (from one who has to wear reading glasses if I want to be able to type at the keyboard and see the screen clearly at the same time ).
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For fancy casual, I like Bradley Hand ITC or Papyrus. If I need all caps for something, I like Copperplate Gothic. And I've just discovered Eurostile. It's fun. For manuscripts, I use whatever I can find that looks closest to traditional typewriter font.
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