Fonts

caramarydaisy · Post by **caramarydaisy** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:35

soft revolution wrote:If you're thinking about using Comic Sans, this flow chart seems a pretty useful reference

haha. i WISH i could send that to my consultant boss..

humblebee · Post by **humblebee** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:26

"Listen up. I know the shit you've been saying behind my back. You think I'm stupid. You think I'm immature. You think I'm a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I'm Comic Sans, and I'm the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg."

Quite funny.

crystalball · Post by **crystalball** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 15:03

Heh. Weirdly, I was reading that just this morning and it was in Times New Roman but now it's in Comic Sans.

REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS NEAR.

String Bean Jen · Post by **String Bean Jen** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 15:03

So good. I was just sent that by my colleague! We have arguments in our office (good-natured, of course) because one of us is MAD into comic sans. So much so that she had one of our workbooks published in it. THE WHOLE THING (@25 pages). She's young (26), pretty suave, incredibly talented and super educated. It just does not compute for me. :/ Only good thing about her leaving later in the summer: when those workbooks get reprinted, we will have them done in a standard Arial or Tahoma!

Need to soften the blow of a harsh message about restroom etiquette? SLAM. There I am. Need to spice up the directions to your graduation party? WHAM. There again. Need to convey your fun-loving, approachable nature on your business' website? SMACK. Like daffodils in motherfucking spring.

Actually, my colleague talks like this ^^ so there must be a connection in there...!

ogata tetsuo · Post by **ogata tetsuo** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 17:29

I don't know if anyone already talk about this website: www.dafont.com
This is my favorite font website :)

humblebee · Post by **humblebee** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 12:05

What's a good font to set poetry in?

I've been looking around a bit on design forums but everyone just seems to recommend flowery old serif faces that look like they were chiselled out of oak in the early 17th century. No good. I need something solid-looking but more modern than that.

stolenwine · Post by **stolenwine** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 01:02

i can't help you with that, pete, but this made my day today. so pretty: http://www.handpaintedtype.com/

Wheatabeat · Post by **Wheatabeat** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 22:36

OK, so who's played the kerning game? How perfect can you correctly space your letters?

I impressed myself by getting 82/100.

Silver Girl · Post by **Silver Girl** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 14:27

Wheatabeat wrote:OK, so who's played the kerning game? How perfect can you correctly space your letters?

I impressed myself by getting 82/100.

I just scored 100 for one of them. Get me and my layout skillz...

tompony · Post by **tompony** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 14:38

I just got two 100 / 100 scores in a row! Then followed that up with a disappointing 65.

It's a lottery, this kerning.

edit: Then another 100, then a 49, then a final 100! I am nothing if not WILDLY inconsistent. Final score 84/100 though...

Wheatabeat · Post by **Wheatabeat** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 00:17

Are you a comic sans criminal?

humblebee · Post by **humblebee** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 16:05

Can anyone recommend a cursive font that doesn't look completely shit, please? Big ask, I know. It's for an award certificate type thing.

Gordon · Post by **Gordon** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 18:16

You get a lot of bad tattoos when you google "cursive font".

SophieC · Post by **SophieC** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 20:09

Mark E Smith Fall font, for precisely none of all your font needs

http://www.visi.com/fall/news/mesfont.html

a layer of chips · Post by **a layer of chips** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 20:14

That's the best thing I've ever seen. Thank you.

humblebee · Post by **humblebee** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 23:40

I like that they invented a font for people to use when they're advertising those films for morons. You know the one I mean, right? I dunno what it's called. Moron Film Sans or something probably.

humblebee · Post by **humblebee** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 15:32

STOP EVERYTHING. Sweden has just got its own house font.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/n ... CMP=twt_gu

crystalball · Post by **crystalball** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 21:21

*Everything* about that country. Everything.

tonieee · Post by **tonieee** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:35

Hi Anoraks, what's everybody's favourite font for reading ebooks in?

I've just switched to Charis SIL from the default Droid Serif. It's alright but now I've started fiddling I'm thinking there could be better.

anorak

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