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Favourite font?


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#41 Jiayi

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Posted 31 July 2008 - 05:04 PM

Really hard to decide, but I do have a soft spot for Matthew Carter's Bell Centenniail; this is probably biased since I did a research project on him. However, the typeface is fascinating, considering that it was created for the purpose of fast press printing on low quality paper (phonebook) at 6 pt; therefore, the design itself has 'wedges' to give way to ink bleeding.

If you guys aren't familiar with this font, you should go look it up and take a look at it blown up. Its irregularities are unique :]

#42 blakeissuarez

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Posted 31 July 2008 - 08:59 PM

Franklin Gothic!

#43 LadyV

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Posted 31 July 2008 - 10:05 PM

There is a truly wonderful little book that you can order online for free on Hoefler & Frere-Jones' website. It's a printed collection of all their fonts. It's really a nice little book to have. You can order it here: http://www.typograph...tions/index.php
The website says it is out of print, but I just got mine today. Enjoy !! :)

#44 Jiayi

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Posted 31 July 2008 - 10:52 PM

@LadyV: Niceeee. Thank for the link :]

#45 boB6killer

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Posted 02 August 2008 - 09:50 AM

Hmm, lately I used Myriad a lot. I like the sleek simple design of the font. You should check it out sometime.

#46 khristaino

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Posted 04 August 2008 - 10:53 PM

I guess by favorite I would go with what makes a designers job easier which I would say is Times New Roman and Helvetica. But I usually have affairs with other ones depending on the situation. I like to have the freedom of choice.

#47 purple

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Posted 05 August 2008 - 01:06 AM

Right now I'm using a lot of Nevis. It's purdy.

also...*whisper* i can be something of a trajan abuser as well (gulp)
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#48 sandeepramje

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Posted 05 August 2008 - 04:46 AM

hmm well my favorite font is SWISS and Century Gothic too.... :)

#49 rightontime

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Posted 14 August 2008 - 10:36 AM

Favorite font? Hmm... Eurostile!

#50 JordanDesign

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Posted 14 August 2008 - 11:42 AM

I love Goudy. Especially the "&" in bold italic.
The main reasons I love this font is the white space it has and this font can be read even at very small font size.
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#51 OnTheSpot

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Posted 14 August 2008 - 02:10 PM

i have too many:)
sanserif font: Century Gotic or Avante Garde
serif font: Georgia
script font: zapfino, sincerely, nothing.

#52 icecastles

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 05:13 PM

my favorite font right now is the one i've downloaded from dafont.com, its called murphy script.. i love that hand written script, i use it mostly on the ebooks i make for my mobile..:D

#53 Design_aLa_Mode

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Posted 19 August 2008 - 05:37 PM

I think i have looked at over a billion different fonts for various projects and it really is the font that makes a project complete. when i need inspiration I go through my House Industries book, they are huge on fonts both formal and decorative.

Some of my favorites are:
Swiss721
Zurich
Adaline401
Americana
AvantGarde
Helvetica
Nuetra
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#54 artpaper

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Posted 18 September 2008 - 02:27 AM

Helvetica. Helvetica. Helvetica :)
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#55 elantonio

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Posted 21 September 2008 - 02:14 AM

Myriad, Trebuchet, and Helvetica are indispensable.

#56 Fujin

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Posted 21 September 2008 - 07:50 PM

Myriad is nice and simple...i'm trying to work with bitsumishi at the moment

#57 paris

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Posted 26 September 2008 - 08:01 AM

Well it's really hard to say what's my favourite font.
I could say Helvetica, but it's overused. I just think Helvetica has become an easy way out for most designers. It isn't wrong though.

Also a font can easily start disappointing you. Century Gothic for example. Since someone told me the 's' in Century Gothic looks so much smaller then the other letters, it really started annoying when seeing text in C.G. (when there's an s inside). Sure you could use it to design a logo or even a baseline, since you can addept the letter 's' using the character-pannel. But I would never use Century Gothic for full text.
Ok, some typo freaks will probably manipulate this font in FontLab or any other font-editing-program ... but I rather just pick another font :]

It's interesting to see what everyone's favourite font is and I doubt there will be any ugly font named here. Each font well have a different aim: fulltext, logofont, displayfont, ...

#58 Neahbay

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Posted 26 September 2008 - 09:04 PM

Garamond is certainly in my top three favorite fonts.
Someone once asked me to design something with Helvetica Neue
and at first I was not too excited because when I think Helvetica I think stodgy. However the Neue Helvetica has a very nice round shape and can be contemporary or classic.

#59 voic3

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Posted 25 November 2008 - 10:47 PM

garamond is a classic.. for me.

#60 slbergh

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Posted 02 December 2008 - 07:37 AM

My current favorite is Scogin. Of course, next week I'm sure it'll be something different!

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