Just My Type: A Book Written Just For Timby

[Sean Aaron]

Are you kidding? Courier, Courier New, and Final Draft Courier are awesome. Each letter is the same width. Got a lot of mileage out of that for college term papers at times, and speaking as someone who reads a shit ton of scripts every day, it's not all that bad.

I use Courier New for everything I write so I guess that one is my favorite.

Courier New is my fave as well because it's the font used on UNIX terminals. Of course I don't use word processors, so the only time I express myself with it is in my blog.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Courier New is a hideous excuse for a monospace serif font, in my opinion.

 

[doubleohfive]

Courier New is a hideous excuse for a monospace serif font, in my opinion.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVCtkzIXYzQ[/yt]

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Well, I did say "in my opinion."

 

[doubleohfive]

 

[RJDiogenes]

Ah, the fabled discussion has been revived.

 

[scotpens]

. . . Courier, Courier New, and Final Draft Courier are awesome. Each letter is the same width. Got a lot of mileage out of that for college term papers at times, and speaking as someone who reads a shit ton of scripts every day, it's not all that bad.

Besides, it's industry standard to use a Courier font on scripts. That's why it matters.

That’s because a monospaced font makes it easy to do a word count. Otherwise, there’s no reason to use a font that was designed for the IBM Selectric typewriter in the late 1960s. Computer fonts have proportional spacing, just like traditional typesetting. Use it, dammit!

Oh, and as serif fonts go, I like Weiss, Hiroshige and Berkeley Oldstyle. They’re all available in a wide variety of weights and they work well for either text or headline type.

 

[Canadave]

^ You wouldn't know of any free fonts similar to Hiroshige, would you? I quite like it, but I hardly have any need to drop ninety bucks on a font.

 

[Amaris]

^ You wouldn't know of any free fonts similar to Hiroshige, would you? I quite like it, but I hardly have any need to drop ninety bucks on a font.

http://www.fontyukle.net/en/1,Hiroshige

 

[Admiral_Young]

I've long been a fan of Courier.

 

[RJDiogenes]

My Hiroshige was just delivered by a courier named Ariel.

 

[mari]

It strikes me as kind of silly to have an industry standard font. I mean, if courts don't have them, I don't understand why script readers need them...

It's been a few years since I typed a brief, but last I knew SCOTUS required Times New Roman, and the upper courts in CT require Arial (or Univers). Individual federal judges can require their own favorites. That said, if a judge required Comic Sans, I'd encourage my lawyer to seek a new judge.

I've found some nice brush and marker fonts to use in place of Comic Sans, Papyrus, etc. For a sans-serif, I'm on a Tahoma kick lately, and for serif fonts... well, I just don't use them often enough to have a favorite.