Your favorite font, or, fonts

Times New Roman for text, Georgia for headings (grey-blue)

Ariel is by far the easiest to read for body text.

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I haven't found a google image photo of fonts that we've mentioned, or that the article mentioned, all on one image.

Did find this font site, with some I'd not seen before and find interesting -
http://www.fontage.com/

I like Geneva, Times and New York (not in any particular order)

It's interesting that they all named a serif font as their favourite one. Guess it makes sense when you're typing a lot, and have to re-read it lotsa times...

Personally, I really like the idea of the Futura, that Bauhaus font that only uses basic geometrical shapes like perfect circles, triangles and squares instead of intrinsically curved, uhm, curves:



It's really amazing how he did that, considering that you usually have to twist and manipulate so much in order to arrive at a working, readable font. Like, make the curves of an "O" go higher and lower than the highest and lowest point of an "N", for example, to make them look the same height. Amazing.

(Oh, and I just found out that the historical plaque left on the moon by Apollo 11 is set in Futura. Way cool.)

I mean, imagine, you're a typeface designer, and your font gets used for this:

I can see liking the Futura...

Yeah, if Bodoni could only see fonts now...



I missed seeing Bodoni's quarters (whatever they call them) - ah, I googled, it's the Bodoni Museum - in the Palazzo Pilotta in Parma, would have liked to. Ran out of time, stuck in post office line instead.

Well, if it's for fun, I'd definitely look around.

But for work and typing I can't be bothered. It has to be something 'not flashy'- which would be seen unprofessional, something that i know everyone can open and will see it the same.... hence Times New Roman.

...for poetry though I kinda like Verdana or something similar. Like a rounder Arial kinda font.

We had Palatino for our gallery font - it fit our self image of, urgggh, a certain quiet elegance. (I'd liked Palatino even before the gallery). But I don't like only the serif fonts...

Ah, that's interesting...! Do you see Times New Roman as less flashy than the non serif fonts? Would you say that using Verdana is seen as unprofessional?

I used to type everything in Georgia, but these days I pretty much type everything in Arizona.

Verdana seems innocuous to me...


from www.will-harris.com

So, Tico, is is getting warm there yet?

Yes, I would not use Verdana at work.

Only Times or Arial (grudgingly. Not if I can help it.)

A bit ... but it's a dry heat.

It's really not bad at all (yet). It's been hovering around 100, but it really doesn't feel hot at all, because it's not humid. I'm told it doesn't really start to feel hot until it gets around 115 for several days straight. Looking forward to that.

well, this is a lot bolder and bigger than I'm used to, but Palatino -


from www.identifont.com


Arial has always sort of annoyed me, will have to look at it again to see if I can say why. (Whereas I like Futura and Verdana).

Yes, arial annoys me too.

Palatino looks better.