I am SUCH a Times New Roman girl!

One is serif and the other sans serif. Apples and oranges.

I have room for both of them in my heart.

I would make a font joke, but I'm not bold enough...

What heart, Defuncto? If you had one, you wouldn't shit all over us with your Bumpbitchery.

Century Gothic is my new jam.

All the cool kids use Garamond, OP. Times New Roman is for dweebs.

I, too, remain fond of Garamond.

I'm a Baskerville man, myself.

I go to Comic Sans in Con Diego every year!

My mother's second husband was a Calibri.

Yes, THOSE Calibris.

I often have Georgia on my mind. But less often on my pages.

Now THIS thread reminds me of the golden era of DL fer sure!

R7 I think I heard on This American Life once that a study showed that Baskerville made you look more intelligent. I used it for a few years after that, but after a while, I got bored with it. Lipstick on a pig and all that, I guess...

As a 90s Mac user (and 2020 Mac hater), I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Chicago, though it's not very practical.

I'm simply devoted to Century Schoolbook. But I've been known to take an occasional walk on the wild side with Freestyle Script.

[quote] I've been known to take an occasional walk on the wild side with Freestyle Script.

WHORE!

Arial!

I think Italic guys are the sexiest.

New comic sans - casual corporate.

The Onion...

Gotham and Obama still have my heart.

R7 is a total hound dog.

I like the font used in the Art Deco-style Golden Gate National Parks posters. Can anyone tell me what it is?

r22 Is it the Adobe Frutiger?

My heart belongs to “Open sans”.

I also have Georgia on my mind and in my page.

What I have really been looking for, however, is something similar to what Quentin Tarantino uses in his opening credits.

No, just no. It's Segoe UI Semibold or go home for me.

As one who has to reconcile and compile documents at work into consistent final products, these myriad fonts are a nightmare. And don’t tell me it can be changed with a key stroke. Everything gets thrown off.

Thanks for finding that NPS typography page, R23.

Nothing but Didot for me!

Georgia on my mind.

Georgia on my mind.

Oh, except for EF Bernhard Antique.

R4, it also uses less ink when printing. True story.

I remain committed to Gill, Gill Sans.

I’m a Courier & Ives girl.

Always have been.

I want to go #FullFrau with a font like the old typewriter cursive.

It just reeks of 1970s PTA newsletters and would drive recipients up the WALL.

[QUOTE]I’m a Courier & Ives girl.

Oh, dear!

I'm keming!

OP, you type fat.

I just became a Sparta whore

I never liked Arial much - it’s kind of colorless - but now I default to it because it’s basically the universal look people can live with without distraction.

I mean, isn’t DL in Arial? Or some knockoff thereof?

I am a Candara gal although I do like the Sparta Linked above

Please. This is DL, most of you are probably downlow Papyrus people.

Not a big fan of most serif fonts.

I like Futura. I prefer the lower case "a" opened up the way it is in Futura.

For a serif font, I like Garamond better than Times.

I use a bespoke font.

^it’s called R46

R37: the irony of R35's clever quip flew straight over your empty skull, didn't it "Dear?"

Add my vote to the Courier typeface column.

It's all about Fanwood Text and Linden Hill.

I don’t do serif.

[quote] As a 90s Mac user (and 2020 Mac hater), I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Chicago, though it's not very practical.

R13, agree to disagree. I never liked Chicago font.

I’m literally torn over serifs. On the one hand they can be heavenly if they hit the prostate just right. On the other hand a careless top can wreck an anus with them.

R25 Benguiat

I'm Futura, but everyone thinks I look like the more recent Century Gothic.

Avenir all the way.

[quote] Arial!

I thought Arial was the knockoff of Helvetica.

It is R56

GERMAN BOLD ITALIC

Hey guys, this cannot be stressed enough. Do NOT use Comic Sans. I've seen professional people use it in their canned email signatures. You will undermine yourself by using Comic Sans.

What do you guys think about Bookman?

I don't like it. Looks like the dumb man's Times Roman.

Arial Black Lives Matter!

And don’t use Copperplate! I knew a guy who used Copperplate all the time and he died.

I like Copperplate!

Hi, Georgia!

LOL r64. I’ll have what she’s having.

My name is German Bold Italic!

While you are Waiting For Didot, R29, I'll stick with a font that actually shows up..

No love for boring Arial? Or was she last century's IT girl?

My work, unfortunately, has a mandate that all letters and memos be formatted in boring Times New Roman, so we're operating in the past.

I bet I won't get one ☝︎♋︎⬧︎⧫︎♏︎❒︎🕯︎⬧︎

R50 serif fonts are good for "academic" texts that you wrote yourself and you want the reader to think about it "in a more serious" tone.

^ Nonsense!

The general rule is Sans-serif is for headlines, captions and short pieces of text.

Anything over 40 words must be in serif! Anything over 40 words hurts your eyeballs.

Times New Roman - the town bicycle of fonts.

The University of London tested Times New Roman and found it to the most legible using the LETTERPRESS method of printing The Times newspaper in 1937.

The serifs are too spiky (and cold) for my taste.

Publications without drop caps are so middle class, as are the people that read them.

Eric Gill was (in my opinion) a handsome man, a clever sculptor and a type designer of genius.

R71 Following "the general rule" outs you as a non-designer, or at least a bad designer.

R71 Also.. I just re-read what you wrote. Academic texts are over 40 words, so what you wrote is exactly in line with what I wrote anyway, so what was your issue?

R70 You said something about "texts that you wrote yourself" and "a more serious" tone" which is unimportant compared to the more important issue of Serif versus Non-Serif.

Nice, r53

You loved me as Doctor Zhivago!

R78 Yes, if you are writing your own academic opinions for a text for a PhD or an essay, the difference in projected tone / atmosphere is very important for the ones reading and assessing your text.

The serifs guide your eye while reading which is all the more important when dealing with complicated and very formal academic texts.

Tests have shown that people in general find it easier to read sans serif fonts on a screen and serif fonts in print.

So. Yeah.

I have read that as well R83

Stick in dirt saying "hungree."

I always set my ebook font to this:

Here in Alexandria we use Omar Serif.

There are fonts other than Futura?

Fraktur

What does Times Elder Roman look like?

What? No love for Didot?

[quote] What does Times Elder Roman look like?

Ten years younger than it actually is.

Call me tacky but I like Tahoma.

I wrote my entire resume in Comic Sans. Why aren't I the CEO yet??

Actually, a lot of European publications used a san serif font in their body copy.

Can you name them, R95?

Cooper black checking in

[quote] What does Times Elder Roman look like?

Old or Olde English.

Ganz verliebt auf Fraktur

You do you, OP.

Sorry r96, it came from reading all the Graphis Annuals.

^. The Graphis Annuals are picture books rather than 'reading books'. They have captions but very few pages of text alone.

The Gilbert is a font created to honor Gilbert Baker the creator of the Rainbow Flag.

R90 - like Courier 12 pt, but more faded.

Graphis and Graphis Annuals and I’m talking about the pages that are reproduced, the illustrations. Yes, teeny tiny type but you can tell if it’s serif or san serif.

Broadway, baby!

I ain’t gonna spread for no “Trebuchet.”

BABY TEETH

Me too, many Times. New Roman, Old Roman, I doo them all.

Forget overcoming a wonky font. My company makes you test all broad email communications using the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level test. If it tests higher than 9th grade, back to the drawing board for a rewrite. Did I mention a 4 year degree is required to work here. I work at a financial company, how you feeling about your 401k now?

[Quote] to honor Gilbert Baker the creator of the Rainbow Flag.

It's a terrible flag design.

I am remaining devoted to the font of my ancestors.

Plus I do not want the god Utu to smite me for being a faddist.

Gotta go. My beans are burning.

R9 I used to use Calibri in College. What’s wrong with it?

Verdana for PowerPoint text.

All this brouhaha over fonts. I'm just not seeing it.

I work for a state court and Times New Roman is the standard for both the documents I create and all the documents filed with the court. I like it it, but don't find it particularly special. It's just there.

It's always jarring when someone files a document in some wacko font. Some alternatives are just fine, but others are really "out there" - well, as much as font can be "out there." Some people still insist on the typewriter font, whatever that's called.

R99

Ganz verliebt *in* Fraktur.

[quote]R116 Some people still insist on the typewriter font, whatever that's called.

It’s Courier. Those of us who like old movies favor it.

Surely Norma Desmond would.

I like Courier and other monospace fonts. Everything lines up nice and neat.

monospace fonts. Explain pls ^

R121, “A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. This contrasts with variable-width fonts, where the letters and spacings have different widths.”

Thanks r122

I may or may not have typed my name in Windsor Light Condensed and imagined I was in a Woody Allen movie...

Courier is nice. A little too low all in all, but nice, if you want that monospace look.

[quote]R124 I may or may not have typed my name in Windsor Light

Now I’m wondering if there’s a Coors Light font.

What's a font that's very upperclass olde worlde but also very cutting edge? Suggestions appreciated.

𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈

𝓘𝓼 𝓲𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼?

Can someone find a font like r36?

It’s so hypnotically annoying. It really reminds me of my childhood.

Believe it or not, being able to change the typeface ball in your electric typewriter was cutting edge, back in the day.

R128 r129 these are lovely thank you. Good for titles and short documents like invitations I should think.