Favourite and least favourite Fonts

[ajp71]

Whats your favourite and least favourite font. I think my favourite font is:

Palatino - http://raph.levien.com/softhint/palatino.png

Just looks correct for everything, be it essays, websites or menu fonts. Unlike Times New Roman it doesn't look like it's been used too many times and isn't hard to read on a screen. When it's printed it looks fresh in a way that Arial just looks like it's been designed by someone with no sense of imagination. Above all I just like the sense of style it has without actually looking either too formal or informal for any use and the fact that it will go with anything because it doesn't actually create an over powering style itself.

No doubt about the worst font ever made, Comic Sans :schwitz:

http://bancomicsans.com/

Someone needs shooting:

and is now available for the Apple Macintosh.
thank god I haven't yet encountered this on my mac

[ayrton senna 87]

get Jimmy Carr to do a 'Top 100 Fonts' show for channel 4 :p

[xapexcivicx]

Arial Black.



Can you honestly get any more boring?

[avih]

I use verdana for sans and georgia for serif. i think they both look great. georgia is a bit similar to your platino :)

and i realy hate times new roman :)

i do think comic sans has its charms though... in its simplicity, readability and fun factor, although it did become a bit cheesy since released.

[WGooden]

century gothic..

dunno why, I just always use it for aim and msn.

[mrodgers]

Whatever is default in the program I'm using. So, I guess, Verdana here. Excel would be Arial, then Word would be Times New Roman, I suppose. LOL.

[Lautsprecher[NOR]]

I like fixedsys :P

[Racer Y]

Being in the Sign business, I know a little about fonts.....
I don't have a favorite font. They're all the spawn of Satan to me :)
I like Goudy Bold and Garamond Cause they are easy to read and look halfway
Proffessional. and they're not as hard to make Channel letters out of like the other fonts with feet* on them (or serifs if you wanna sound proffesional)
I prefer to use Futura Bold when I can.

There's an interesting story as to how the Arial font came about.
Something about how Microsoft didn't want to pay to use the Swiss Helvetica font, so they made up arial to get around it.
Palatino is OK for little stuff, like printed items, but using that is a good way to hurt by a fabricator if you wanna make a sign out of it. Plus it don't read too good when you're zipping along the road.

Cooper (see JD's Steakhouse on S.City) is just soooo dated. LOL
the staple font of 99.9% printed T-Shirts during the disco era.
I could go on all day with this.....

LOL i got in trouble once for making a layout for a Mexican Restaurant
THe loser was shopping my layouts to other sign companies and I found out about it....... So I did something in Old English and used the little lowrider guy for a logo... he left us alone after that one :)

[smack]

i use whatevers default, but i like impact. on msn usually use typist

[Bob Smith]

Alpha Sausage! A bit impractical though.

Another and Anyway are nice, but probably not well suited for the sign business.

Trebuchet MS is my normal typing font.

[Jakg]

Maiandra GD

[X-Ter]

...and what is so wrong with comic sans? :shrug:

[Stellios]

Courier new while bold and italic, use it for almost everything.

[tristancliffe]

I like Arial for university reports, as it's clean, simple and easy to read.

But if not arial, then I'm not that fussed as long as it's sans serif.

[W1LLSD4D]

Favourite is one called kids (like childrens handwriting) - least favourite is bodoni - they made us use it at work for a couple of years & it looked pants...

I guess my most used is Arial (in spreadsheets or reports (work's standard)) or tahoma (in forms)

[ajp71]

...and what is so wrong with comic sans? :shrug:

It's been so over used and to me symbolises a boring and unimaginative politically correct mind. I find it insulting when someone sends a corporate Christmas Card where they could be bothered to find an intresting font, even worse when letters are written in it:schwitz:

[X-Ter]

Fair enough :)
I always thought it to be quite... friendly sort of... :hug:

[TagForce]

Fair enough :)
I always thought it to be quite... friendly sort of... :hug:

And to be quite honest... That's the only two words that should ever have been written in it... On the cover of a book "Don't PANIC" in large 'friendly' letters.

As for favorite font...
For large pieces of text, it's gonna have to be Century Schoolbook or Goudy Catalog... Only because it's just a pleasant typeface to read for long periods of time.
For the sheer looks of it, Lithograph and Mystical... Reads like sh*te, but looks awesome on posters and flyers.

Of course, there's hundreds more (I have several thousands installed) that are good, and as many that suck.

[deggis]

LOL, funny subject. :D

Impact is nice, it's so thick than you can write lots of letters in a small place.

ps. The best font site: http://www.searchfreefonts.com/categories. Good for skinning needs.

[inCogNito]

there are some i like, but the worst is indeed Comic Sans and 2nd place goes to Times New Roman.

[Rippance]

Myriad Roman is definitely high up on my list. Like Helvetica Neue a bit overused, but it just so sexy. I've also been impressed by a recently released typeface called Fonce Sans (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/25092730/) by Ryan Ford. It's a very specific kind of typeface I have been looking for a long time already.

Another one I enjoy using is Baskerville Old Face and Maiola Roman. Very nice serif typefaces, in my opinion.

Last but not least, Microsoft's fixed-width Consolas has permantely replaced Courier in all my editors and commandlines.

Evidentely, Comic Sans is the root of all evil.

[Barroso]

i like that new microsoft font segoe ui (http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2005/11/16/493388.aspx)

[hrtburnout]

Kidprint, Arial and Verdana
http://bancomicsans.com/image/bunnypunch.png

[nikimere]

Times New Roman for president!! :razz:

[5th Earth]

I'm rather fond of Bankgothic and Microsoft Fixedsys.

[(SaM)]

Wingdings all the way! Nah, kidding.

Fav are:

Franklin Gothic
Century Gothic
Impact

Least fav are:
Of course, Comic Sans MS. I dont like it because it's totally overused by amateur typers. If I see Comic Sans MS in menus, folders or flyers, I know rightaway the person did not do a design or communication course/study.

[Jakg]

Wingdings all the way! Nah, kidding.

Fav are:

Franklin Gothic
Century Gothic
Impact

Least fav are:
Of course, Comic Sans MS. I dont like it because it's totally overused by amateur typers. If I see Comic Sans MS in menus, folders or flyers, I know rightaway the person did not do a design or communication course/study.i personally hate Comic Sans as well, it just seems so childisha s a font, there are plenty more fonts that not only look nicer, but also smarter, but still have a bit of a wild side! oh god, im saying things like fonts have "wild sides!"