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Favorite Font(s)
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Futura is my favorite. I also like Zapfino and Century Gothic. I also like a crappy font called Pixel. 
Mine is "Fago", even named my cat after it
Thats Awesome, actualy seems like a lot of one word fonts are cat names.
My cats name was bacon
Wow! Twenty-one month necropost!
My font preferences have become rather specialist since I managed to get enough work to become a full-time comic book letterer!
Cheers!
Jim
My font preferences have become rather specialist since I managed to get enough work to become a full-time comic book letterer!
Cheers!
Jim
Super necro!
Arial (usually Narrow) deserves respect even though there's a lot of idiots that abuse it.
Helvetica
Akzidenz-Grotesk certainly.
Futura
Univers
Museo Sans
MGOpen Moderna is incredible but spaced tightly for a gothic font.
"But whatta 'bout serif faces?"
Serifs are often schlocky and unmemorable. Lemme go through Font Book and find a serif that doesn't suck.
Georgia
Goudy Bookletter 1911
OFL Sorts Mill Goudy
The non-schlocky Bodoni faces.
Museo Slab and regular Museo
and anything else Jos has made.
Arial (usually Narrow) deserves respect even though there's a lot of idiots that abuse it.
Helvetica
Akzidenz-Grotesk certainly.
Futura
Univers
Museo Sans
MGOpen Moderna is incredible but spaced tightly for a gothic font.
"But whatta 'bout serif faces?"
Serifs are often schlocky and unmemorable. Lemme go through Font Book and find a serif that doesn't suck.
Georgia
Goudy Bookletter 1911
OFL Sorts Mill Goudy
The non-schlocky Bodoni faces.
Museo Slab and regular Museo
and anything else Jos has made.
Favorite typefaces:
Optima Bold Italic 18 pt
Helvetica Neue Ultralight Italic 16 pt
Delicious Heavy, any pt
Favorite fonts:
MuseoSans
Museo
Museo Slab
Archer
Gotham (overuse notwithstanding)
Bree
Ronnia
Skolar
Meta
AvantGarde Gothic Pro with the original ligatures
Optima Bold Italic 18 pt
Helvetica Neue Ultralight Italic 16 pt
Delicious Heavy, any pt
Favorite fonts:
MuseoSans
Museo
Museo Slab
Archer
Gotham (overuse notwithstanding)
Bree
Ronnia
Skolar
Meta
AvantGarde Gothic Pro with the original ligatures
Helvetica Neue FTW
I'm really a Helvetica Neue person with the tracking decreased quite noticeably.
Any minimalist sans-serif font is OK with me, but other than Helvetica Neue I have no literal favourite font, as some could be horrible for one project, and others could be more than ideal for another.
I'm really a Helvetica Neue person with the tracking decreased quite noticeably.
Any minimalist sans-serif font is OK with me, but other than Helvetica Neue I have no literal favourite font, as some could be horrible for one project, and others could be more than ideal for another.
Serif: Day Roman, Riven, Garamond Pro
Sans-serif: Helvetica Neue (overused, I know, but so good when used appropriately) & Univers.
To be honest, I don't use one font more than another because it's a favourite - I decide each project as it comes and use what suits it best.
Sans-serif: Helvetica Neue (overused, I know, but so good when used appropriately) & Univers.
To be honest, I don't use one font more than another because it's a favourite - I decide each project as it comes and use what suits it best.
Thanks!
A font is the packaged collection of glyphs. A typeface is the design of the constituent elements within a font. Therefore, I like the design of Helvetica Neue Ultralight Italic, but I don't like the rest of the font that is Helvetica Neue. A good analogy is that a typeface is like a song, while a font is like an album/CD. You buy a CD which contains lots of different songs. You buy a font which contains lots of different typeface/glyph designs. I stand by my definitions.
Great Response! I've been designing since 1989 and was surprised at how many people listed these fonts! I had this one creative director who absolutely banned any fonts that were named after cities...period. Also the use of most free fonts...most pre-press depts. prefer that you stay within the Adobe library...which with over 2,000 fonts plenty to choose from!
Univers is an excellent font...especially if you have the sub-fonts as well.
