Your Favourite Font

[Sam_I_Am]

I love Georgia. Anyone else?

 

[C.E. Evans]

Courier New is a traditional easy-to-read type of font that's ideal for addressing things of a serious manner on paper.

Courier is a legible but ugly monospaced font (all characters occupy the same width) that's a relic of the typewriter age.

I disagree that it's ugly. And being monospaced is not a bad thing at all, especially in a formal/business letter. And what did a typewriter ever do to you?

If I need a clear, easy-to-read font for serious correspondence, I'd use Times Roman, Century Schoolbook or Palatino.

Any Palatino is a pal o' mine.

Times Roman is boring--more people use that than Comics Sans. And Palatino is a Garamond wannabe.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I actually have almost 2200 fonts installed currently. Practically a font for every need.

I remember trying to have over 1000 fonts installed on a Win2000 machine. Boy was that a mistake. I might as well have taken a hammer to the thing.

 

[auntiehill]

I can honestly say that I have never given a crap about fonts, unless I was doing something creative or artsy. As long as I can read it, I don't care. Hell, my email defaults to Arial and I've never even considered changing it. I just don't care.

 

[Canadave]

I dislike Arial, though I think I'm in the minority on that.

Not necessarily. It's kind of a blatant Helvetica rip-off, but not as good, so there are a lot of people that dislike it.

Personally, I'm quite fond of Garamond for serif fonts. For sans serif, I like a less-common one called DejaVu Sans

Incidentally, has anyone here seen this? It's actually quite fascinating:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkoX0pEwSCw&ob=av3e[/yt]

 

[WillsBabe]

Ariel, Tahoma or Calabri of the "Microsoft fonts", but there are lots of others out there that I prefer. I go to dafont.com for my fonts and try to stay away from the Microsoft fonts for creative stuff.

 

[stoneroses]

The Village font from the prisoner. microextended is nice too.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

I'm not crazy about how typefaces look, but I avoid using proprietary fonts like the Microsoft ones. So I most often use:

In printed documents:
- Computer Modern
- Linux Libertine
- Liberation Serif to replace Times New Roman
On screen:
- DejaVu Sans and Sans Mono (I use the Serif one sometimes, but I'm not particularly fond of it)
I also like:
- Ubuntu

I prefer the Garamond typeface personally, and I used it a lot in the past when I had to do printed works, but there aren't any fonts providing it under a reasonable license, so I mostly switched to the fonts above for all purposes when I need a normal serif font.

I have several dozen other fonts installed, so if I need to quickly do some simple graphical design, I can most often find one that fits.

And though I have personally not used them yet, Google Web Fonts appear to be quite interesting.

 

[Timby]

My favorite sans serif fonts are Futura and Avenir, with Century Gothic also in the mix.

My favorite serif font is probably Garamond, although I still like Palatino Linotype for certain uses.

 

[trekkiedane]

Comic Sans actually has a lot of uses.

Mostly for making fun of people who use it though; Comic Sans, Microsoft clip art and garish colours and patterns are a must if you're going to make fun of pretty much any type of home-made flyer.

ANd just for the fun of it do take a peek at the Comic Sans Project.

I tend to collect things -therefore also fonts- and am trying very hard to limit myself whenever possible, so I mostly just use the fall-back-fonts: Garamond and Helvetica