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Your most hated font....excluding Comic Sans
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iGav said:
I thought of you when I saw that someone had included that...
After all, it's so boring.
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Peignot
I hate Peignot. With a passion. So much that it's reason enough for me to not do business with any company that uses it for their logo/advertising/whatever. I want to own/run a design shop just so I can make rule No. 1 that if you ever use Peignot in anything, for any reason, you're immediately canned on the spot.
I hate Peignot. With a passion. So much that it's reason enough for me to not do business with any company that uses it for their logo/advertising/whatever. I want to own/run a design shop just so I can make rule No. 1 that if you ever use Peignot in anything, for any reason, you're immediately canned on the spot.
1. Arial - because so many clients really want to use it
2. Gill Sans - because it creates a lot of kerning issues
3. Hobo - it turns my stomach
2. Gill Sans - because it creates a lot of kerning issues
3. Hobo - it turns my stomach
DavidFDM said:
True... some of those caps are oddly tight. The A, W and T particularly.
It used to be one of our corporate fonts and I was always asked to double-space
a sentence beginning with a W by an internal client. So we eventually had to spend some time setting up new kerning tables in Quark to deal with the problem.DavidFDM said:
Ick. There's a whole bunch of 70's Letraset ones that would have been better left in rub-down format rather than being digitised.
ATD said:Helvectica in the wrong hands can be boring, but if a designer knows what they are doing with it, it's one of the very best fonts out there.
totally agree. usually people forget about letter spacing/kerning, leading, font weights and other typesetting "rules" which can end up ruining a great font like helvetica. my vote is for all the 90's grunge fonts---if you need the relic'd effect, create it yourself and make it halfway decent. eras would also be on my list. i don't like to use capitals...
Apple Hobo said:
There are plenty of garbage fonts, but Helvetica is what came to mind first.
I read a book about Helvetica once. Well no so much a text book but full of uses of Helvetica; album art, book titles. Pretty much everything. Even screenshots of videos that are just helvetica fonts floating around.
It's a mad world.
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Critter....my boss at work loves this font for some odd ball reason. By the way he likes to think of himself as a designer but he's just an editor or a daily newspaper.
Critter....my boss at work loves this font for some odd ball reason. By the way he likes to think of himself as a designer but he's just an editor or a daily newspaper.
My vote goes to Lucida Handwriting. And the wingdings set- can someone explain to me when you would EVER need to communicate through a series of symbols (That's another one!) which are impossible to read? !
Sorry, it's late and I've got a deadline tommorrow
Sorry, it's late and I've got a deadline tommorrow
dornoforpyros said:
When I first read the thread title, my gut response was also Papyrus. Although I don't hate it, the font is way overused. I'll gladly provide pictures of it's (mis)-use in the bay area if set up the site. =)
dmw007 said:
gasp!
I love using these actually. Decoratively only of course (and only as background imagery). Really HUGE, they become abstract curves of sexy goodness.
i remember back in high school i despised the font 'creepy' or something of the sorts. luckily i can't find it on my powerbook for an adequate example...
Lunja said:My vote goes to Lucida Handwriting. And the wingdings set- can someone explain to me when you would EVER need to communicate through a series of symbols (That's another one!) which are impossible to read? !
Sorry, it's late and I've got a deadline tommorrow
Back in primary school we used to use wingdings to code messages.
