Comments on: Weekend Word Wrap: word fonts

By: Sara

Sara — Sun, 13 May 2007 16:48:40 +0000

Okay, I’ll be the one to admit I use all those crazy fonts, Comic Sans MS, Apple Butter, Bradley Hand ITC… But in my defense, I’m an elementary school teacher and my kids like those fonts. Although sometimes when THEY are typing things they will choose fonts that make their already grammatically horrendous work that much harder to read. If I’m typing something for adults, I usually stick with Arial for the clean lines and ease with which it can be read.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:19:46 +0000

I use a bunch from all over the map: Gill Sans, Rockwell, Trebuchet, Tw Cent, Franklin Gothic, Frutiger 55 Roman. I’m partial to AdLib, Jokerman and other 60’s-Modish ones for flyers, announcements, Cd labels and such.

I would be very happy to never see Curlz again.

The font I crave for everyday but haven’t yet splurged for: Mrs Eaves by Emigre

By: Brett

Brett — Mon, 07 May 2007 01:15:08 +0000

Trebuchet all the way! I mean, just look at the g’s in that font! They’re so — statuesque! I just feel happy all over when I typeset for the web in Trebuchet with the linespacing at about 95% and the point size at around 12. -sighh-

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 07 May 2007 00:02:21 +0000

I love Optima. It’s so sharp. Sometimes I like georgia or the standard Times New Roman. But optima is love.

By: ajadoniz

ajadoniz — Sun, 06 May 2007 21:11:35 +0000

I’m too scared to use anything other than Times New Roman since my professors and teachers have demanded I use Times New Roman on 12 point font.

When I’m feeling rebellious I also use Garamond. Sticking it to the man, one font at a time.

By: Lily

Lily — Sun, 06 May 2007 18:05:47 +0000

I Have recently discoverd the magic of Futura and Cochin. But I am a sucker for american typwriter prefferably condensed. But the old typwrighter feel makes you feel like your really getting somthing done, and it makes you want to go get a nice green visor aka you feel special important and like you are doing somthing worthwhile.

By: Morse

Morse — Sun, 06 May 2007 13:14:56 +0000

My go-to font for everything from ad copy to personal letters is Garamond. Sometimes it’s plain Garamond, sometimes it’s Adobe Garamond Pro, and sometimes it’s the free version Baramond. Depends on my mood :) This font is tough to overuse at this point, considering that it was spelling things out forever even before computers came on the scene.

My award for The Worlds Greatest Sans-serif Font goes to House Industries’s Neutraface. At $249 it ain’t cheap, but you get so many variations and it looks soooooo good! A lot of people don’t realize the value in having an entire font family at your fingertips, but it’s great when a font gives you enough variations to use multiple times in a piece without getting too blah. I use it in Demi SC for headlines, and in its lighter variants if I want some hip copy.

Other great fonts that find their way into my life on occasion: Gill Sans, Franklin Gothic, and a whole pile of others :)

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 06 May 2007 02:28:46 +0000

This discussion has got me thinking: what is the typeface used in the Mental Floss blog?

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 06 May 2007 00:01:40 +0000

Zapfino, it’s the most artistic font you can find. I’m using it in a tattoo design I’ve been working on.

By: sfs

sfs — Sat, 05 May 2007 08:31:01 +0000

I’ve always liked Arial Black and Century Gothic together. I made a logo with them once, and then I started seeing that combination in a lot of closing titles at movies.

Copperplate Gothic Light is my favorite for headings, as it lends such a classy air.

For sans-serifs, Star Jedi and Red5 have always been fun to use (and see how many people can guess that they copy the Star Wars font – oddly enough, it’s often not very many).

By far, my favorite cursive font is Rage Italic. It keeps coming in handy on all sorts of projects, and it makes a great digital signature, too.

Except for academic work, I tend to stay away from the serif fonts… I suppose they seem too old-fashioned on screen.

I had a teacher that required Garamond on everything we turned in, and since I’d do most of my composition in the Word-default TNR (which is a larger typeface) and see sometimes up to a half-page of my paper seem to disappear, I never have liked it much. Oddly enough, some of my professors at college are now requiring Arial instead of the typical TNR, so I may start disliking it too.

Jaclyn (#13): Thank you. I am rather relieved to find that I am not the only one who looks at fonts and knows their names, or wonders where to get that cool font just shown.