Favorite font

ST218

Member

• Sep 22, 2007

• #1

I dunno, this just occurred to me a while back. What's your favorite font to use for whatever purpose? I have a preference for Lucida Calligraphy.

 

Spazzo

Member

• Sep 22, 2007

• #2

Cabrini, or whatever the new standard font in Office 2007 is called.

If not that, then Comic Sans MS.

 

Naga

True liar.

• Sep 22, 2007

• #3

I'm fond of Vista's

font. Essentially my font choice for everything.

 

on Edge

Member

• Sep 22, 2007

• #4

Arial Black is good for image memes. :P

 

Blitzzo

It's Mr. Computer!

• Sep 22, 2007

• #5

Comic Sans MS is absolutely terrible and needs to die in a fire. I've seen it overused numerous times. It simply doesn't ever look good on anything. Not even on what it's designed for: cartoonish letter print. There are fonts out there that can work much better than Comic Sans MS can for just about any occasion.

http://www.dafont.com/i-hate-comic-sans.font

That there is a comic font that is ten times better than Comic Sans MS. Seriously, I actually took the incentive to uninstall Comic Sans from my computer. I may even put this stuff on posters and things that use Comic Sans:

http://bancomicsans.com/propaganda.html

Also, see here:

http://www.exhibit5a.com/?p=1201
http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/001254.html


Aside from that, Segoe UI looks to be a pretty nice font for Cleartype, though I don't have it installed. Visitor TT2 BRK is a pretty neat pixel-font, if only for the userbar stuff it's associated with. And for IRC, there is of course no better font to my knowledge than FixedSys.

 

Oogaland

Member

• Sep 22, 2007

• #6

On the subject of Comic Sans, here's what its creator has to say about it. More here.

Consolas is a nice fixed-pitch typeface for LCD screens; otherwise, I use Courier New. Palatino is my preferred variable-pitch face.

 

on Edge

Member

• Sep 22, 2007

• #7

Eww..... Chalkboard.

 

Mystic

Member

• Sep 22, 2007

• #8

Verdana, 10 pt.

I don't remember why I started using it, but at this point it's habit.

 

Zanyhead

Mimigas' Rights Activist

• Sep 22, 2007

• #9

DooM font FTW.

 

Flame

WR 102

• Sep 22, 2007

• #10

I love the "Hey Gorgeous" or whatver that font is called from Super Paper Mario, the "GAMECUBEN" and "GasLight" fonts. I also like the Comic Sans MS font, but not as much. >_>

 

akirahedgehog

Veteran

• Sep 23, 2007

• #11

Goober Adventure font and PSO fonts.

 

Blade the vampire

Member

• Sep 23, 2007

• #12

I happen to like monotype corsiva because sure if you use it wrong it looks like italics, but it comes out very neat with anything formal.

 

Segmint

Member

• Sep 23, 2007

• #13

Segoe Media Center Semibold

 

.hack

Member

• Sep 23, 2007

• #14

When I"m in the mood for making someone mad, Webdings or jokerman is the way to go. Other than that..Times New Roman for the win! (12 pt. black)

 

arnold_the_bartender

Member

• Sep 24, 2007

• #15

I like SEGA font, Gaslight, mushroomhill, sonic2levelselect, comic sans, etc.

 

supersonic45

Member

• Sep 24, 2007

• #16

Comic Sans is good, but when I'm writing a paper I use some other typewriter font. Comic Sans is overused now, but it looks good with my SRB2 related stories. Then again, my SRB2 stories only have one book done, and that's the beginning that has nothing to due with SRB2...