my friend mack recently sent me a poll on slate.com of writers responding to this question: what is your favorite font, and why.
surprisingly (to me, at least), a lot of people went with courier. the rationale is that they use it every day in manuscripts. a couple went with staples like times new roman and palatino, and one courageous soul named hoefler text as the best font of all the fonts.
i recently queried the brain trust on which fonts they liked most. here's what the people who actually replied had to say:
Katie Tanner (friend, former co-worker): I've been using Tahoma a lot as a sans serif. I liked Gill Sans and Hoefler Text. Specifically, I love the swirly font Jose uses for mini review bylines in Paste: Hoefler Text-Swash italic.
Katie Davis (friend, former co-worker and pirate): didot italic. (i know, shocker.) i like its architecture, and its subtle serifs. and it made an omelet for me one time. with cheese and bell peppers. and bacon. and class.
Becky Snowden (friend, former co-worker, animal whisperer): Selfish and Porcelain but now it's EVERYWHERE... well porcelain is. It really depends on what it's for. LOVE cochin. Dang there's a font I'm really loving but it's on my comp at work...
Marilyn Cole (friend, computer science goddess): I really like plain ol' monospace these days. I'm always in terminal mode, with white text on black screen, and you need one of those for
coding. I do remember being a kid and seeing things like Courier and
thinking, why would anyone pick such an overtly ugly font?
Monospace is sweet, though. I also like Computer Modern, which is the
LaTeX font that Knuth (a computer science god) designed with vector
math.
And back when I was less dorky (?) I liked Garamond best for serif, and
Verdana best without.
Thorough enough analysis for your taste? I could go on.
Brandon Reynolds (friend, former roommate, owner of a fatass cat): Brandon:arial
me: mmk
why?
1:47 AM Brandon: i think it has many uses
it looks good at any size
me: that's what she said!
hioooo
as for me, i'm a fan of the futura family and bodoni lately, if only because those are two of the nicer fonts available to me at work.
least favorite font? comic sans, a hundred times comic sans. make the madness stop.
what are your favorite fonts? (and karen, i bet i can guess your's.)
1 comment:
I like Century Schoolbook. I hate Times New Roman because of its everydayness, but Times New Roman it is.
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