Comments on: Writers’ Favorite Fonts

By: Sara

Sara — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:15:00 +0000

I like Arial, in 12.

By: caspian the tenth

caspian the tenth — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:43:12 +0000

bodoni(many types, i like the straight faces for text, and the really bold italics for cool headlines

mrs. eaves

big caslon

akzidenz grotesk

helvetica neue

trajan

bickham script

god will smite you if you use papyrus.

By: mishele

mishele — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:14:13 +0000

I like American Typewriter, Tahoma is good, and the only Arial I will use is the BOLD version. I like to change them up. I love having so many choices!

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:39:47 +0000

I like a lot of types of fonts, but the one that my whole computer is set to is Book Antiqua.

By: Farfalla

Farfalla — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:41:08 +0000

I’ve been totally loving Japanese Gothic lately. I’m also going to have to hate on Arial Black especially when people feel the need to make it bold. It just feels redundant.

Tahoma, Verdana, and Georgia are my favs for the bi-weekly newsletter I compile at work.

By: Lalita

Lalita — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:43:34 +0000

Albertus and Tahoma are my two current favorites. Although, I’ve been toying wtih having my handwriting rendered into a personal font. Luckily for me, I have great handwriting.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:14:02 +0000

I’ve always been a big fan of Arial Narrow… I see I’m the only one? Also, I think it’s called Andy, that one’s fun too but not for anything people need to read for any amount of time.

I, too, hate the Comic Sans… also dislike Lucida Handwriting ’cause I can’t frickin’ read it!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:14:10 +0000

Hooray for type!

Didot is probably my favorite font. It’s pretty to look at up close.

I also like Franklin Gothic, Helvetica Neue and Gill Sans. They put me through college.

I cringe when I see script fonts or Papyrus. They remind me of those birthday cards from MS Word with the pixelated clip art balloons. And though I like novelty fonts, I wish people would stop using Rosewood in every single advertisement and/or packaging design.

By: Average Jane

Average Jane — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:49:03 +0000

I like Palatino, mainly because some of its italic characters are really beautiful. After seeing the “Helvetica” documentary, I have a new appreciation for Helvetica.

By: smirks

smirks — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:28:41 +0000

I am so thrilled that there’s so much Georgia love. I thought I was the only one. Other serif fonts I like are Garamond and Palatino. I also really like Calibri on the new Office, and have always enjoyed Helvetica and Century as sans serif fonts.

Not a Courier fan, but it does have its uses.

I’m sure anyone who has done any amount of layout work pretty well loathes comic sans, papyrus, and script caps.