Do you have a favorite font?

[WriterDom]

I've used the Georgia font for years. Rarely do I bother with fonts here though.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

I've used the Georgia font for years. Rarely do I bother with fonts here though.

I like Arial. Clean, clear, and easy to read for almost any/everyone. Serif fonts, for some reason, tend to annoy me a bit. (Not enough to not read something written in them, but ...)

 

[graceanne]

I like Arial. Clean, clear, and easy to read for almost any/everyone. Serif fonts, for some reason, tend to annoy me a bit. (Not enough to not read something written in them, but ...)

Ditto.

I don't worry about fonts here, though.

 

[WriterDom]

If you could set the font here I probably would.

 

[califwineguy]

Although there are more stylistic and interesting fonts out there, Arial still wins hands-down as the best all-around font for readability... IMHO...

 

[daintyfemme]

My favorite all time is century gothic

 

[FurryFury]

I used to play with fonts all the time but I like Arial or Times New Roman. I like my fonts to be easy to read.

 

[Harmony_1985]

Century Gothic <3

 

[katt_g]

century gothic...
which i use on occasion here, but the font settings here are a pain, so i usually go with the default

for readability, at work i use arial

 

[BiBunny]

I dabble in calligraphy, so most standard computer fonts bore me. I normally stick with whatever the default is in whatever program I happen to be using. I do prefer Arial when writing, say, research papers or resumes, just because it's not too "busy," and using it usually leaves plenty of that white space that people often forget about when doing those kinds of documents.

 

[Netzach]

Helvetica, which is Arial for all intents and purposes. What can I say, I'm a modernist tool and graphic, literary types can scream about the purity of Courier all they want but no one's reading their stuff in Courier. I have honest to god Graphic designer friends who are appalled at my mainstream middlebrow love of Arial when designing for web, but fuck 'em.

Second fave for web - Trebuchet MS done real small. It's kinda cute.

 

[Primalex]

Plantagenet Cherokee

 

[CurlyKat]

Oh dear Lord I could go on with this topic... one of my favorite scripty fonts is Vivaldi. Legible, pretty, and when used appropriately conveys that whole air of royalty or richness quite well.

For everyday use, like on messenger programs and the like, I use Comic Sans. Very clean, easy to read, but still not quite the average font.

There are tons and tons more, but I'm a little brain-fried tonight, so I'll add my other favorites tomorrow (complete with reasons!).

 

[wicked woman]

For everyday use, like on messenger programs and the like, I use Comic Sans. Very clean, easy to read, but still not quite the average font.

I agree about Comic Sans MS for chatting. I use bold and a colour with font size 12 so it's really easy on my eyes.

Generally though I'll add the vote for Arial though I also use Times New Roman a lot.

 

[Recidiva]

Times New Roman

 

[gigi1968]

I prefer Comic Sans but normally use whatever is standard.

Personally do not like Times New Roman but will use Arial instead.

 

[Harmony_1985]

Book Antiqua is getting alot of love atm

 

[LilyBart]

I came across this story (on Google News as homepage) today, which made me think about your question...

Its about the creator of the Comic Sans font, for the record.

Tahoma fan here, for general correspondence...

 

[DVS]

I've got nearly 500 fonts on my computer at the moment, but I just use what's default, for the most part. Obviously, I was once really into the font thing. I had a job where I was asked to copy forms and make them identical, and so that's why I had all of those fonts. I do like Ariel, because it's so clean and readable.

I use New Times Roman or CG Times for more official things. My family created a Limited Power of Attorney once, and the lawyer requested 12 point New Times Roman for the font. Picky, those lawyers, I guess.

We had to use Courier, because of its fixed pitch when I worked in the computer side of the mortgage industry. Getting our users to stick with that bland font was difficult, when they would always want to use a prettier one. But, dealing with Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie and the multitude of mortgage forms, and they tend to be picky about what characters are where. Strangely enough, a lot of government forms wanted that fixed pitch font, because of spacing on ready made forms.

On line mortgage forms I created were in PDF format and that helped with font choices. Using other formats, people just couldn't understand why a form wouldn't print out just as it looked on the screen. They were choosing the font they wanted to use, instead of the font the government requested. They didn't understand proportional fonts, and fixed pitch fonts. Embedding the font you wanted would allow the form to be printed on most any printer with the same result, within reason, of course.

The government has used Adobe PDF for files they send you for a while now, and so that tends to remedy that same issue, with fonts. If they want something to look a special way when you send it back, PDF is the key.

A lot of things you download from the government, and connected agencies will be PDF files. I download copyright forms and they are PDF. I even registered online with a dentist, a while back and their form was PDF. It seems everybody is getting into the act. If you want uniformity, PDF is the way to go.

I worked for an online company for a while, and they had a program that we input our data on line. But it wasn't PDF format so if I wanted to print it out, my printer always altered the form. Actually, they preferred you to do the thing on line, but they didn't allow you to save the file, if you didn't finish with the first login. It sucked.

So, I took the time to create it in PDF format and I just input the data and saved the file, printed it, and sent it back to them. It was so much easier. And the damn thing looked like it was suppose to. They never complained and I could take my time with the form. Thank you, Adobe.

 

[Yasashii_Kaze]

On here I just settle for the default, but my favorite would have to be Papyrus. It's pretty easy to read and it's attractive.

 

[ammre]

I definatelly have favorite typefaces, but not favorite fonts.

Akzidenz-Grotesk for clean looks
and Bodoni for a serif look.

I LOATHE Comic Sans... Papyrus is next on my list of loathing...

 

[Shankara20]

Do you have a favorite font?

Yes I do, but the typeballs for my IBM Selectric are so expensive I stay with the one that came with the machine.

But thanks for asking all the same...

 

[DVS]

Yes I do, but the typeballs for my IBM Selectric are so expensive I stay with the one that came with the machine.

But thanks for asking all the same...

Shank, you're making us mid-westerners seem outdated. They already call us flyover country.

Or was it you just wanted to get the word balls into your post?


Psssst...do I dare ask, are yours pica or elite?

 

[CurlyKat]

HATE hate hate Courier. It's the default on all outlook we use, and it doesn't matter if you try to change it it'll always turn out in Courier. It's so icky!

 

[Moonlit]

Like so many others, I prefer Arial.......

Yes I do, but the typeballs for my IBM Selectric are so expensive I stay with the one that came with the machine.

But thanks for asking all the same...

I'm not sure if I should be laughing or running away scared...... I learned to type on an IBM Selectric....