Q: What are your favourite fonts and why?
Posted by Steve Aycock (Member # 3612) on :
I really like Impact it is more attractive than Arial or Helvetica yet maintains a high degree of legibility. It also looks good stretched either vertically or horizontally giving me the ability to achieve a variation of style on a single layout without having to use multiple fonts.
Steve
Posted by KARYN BUSH (Member # 1948) on :
i love enviro...for cities & state in a logo.
Posted by Sunny Holtzlander (Member # 4012) on :
Balloon and Dom Casual hehehe, just kidding folks!
I seem to use benguiat bold alot. Nice readable font, with just a touch of class.
Posted by David Wright (Member # 111) on :
I prefer fonts made for our industry by sign people. Letterhead fonts and signfonts.com. Any script by these is preferable to anything else. In general type that is available I like some variations of Goudy, Century Schoolbook, Optima, Eurostyle and Impact.
Posted by Bob Stephens (Member # 858) on :
100% agreement with Steve regarding Impact.Its a A real workhorse.
Mekanic is nice for a tall vertical feel gothic style.
I like the contemporary look and feel of Rage for a script and also Nevison.
Baker Signet is one of my favorite romanesque serif fonts.
The number one reason for my choice in any font is legibility and subliminal appropriateness for the look and feel of the word its being used for.
Most any font is good if you know how and when to use it.
Posted by Checkers (Member # 63) on :
Gee, so many fonts, so little time. I have about 150 in my Font Navigator favorites. In no peticular order... Antique olive - Strong, clean font eurostyle - modern looking handel gothic - different caslon - a classic Eras - different compacta - bold lithograph - interesting optima - another classic dom casual - fun aachen, americana - I like 'em Bailey Script - I like the way my name looks I also like the look of a lot of the house industries and letterhead fonts but have had no use yet. There's probably about 1/2 dozen scripts I left off the list because my favorites aren't sorted on this computer.
Havin' fun,
Checkers
Posted by Ed Ryall (Member # 3221) on :
What do you call the style on the coke cola bottles?
Posted by Fred Weiss (Member # 3662) on :
I'm a big fan of large but underused font families. That way you can vary weights with true small caps and italics and end up with a highly upscale look.
Two favorites are:
Utopia (Family) - Adobe Bodega Sans (Family) - The Font Bureau
Posted by CJ Allan (Member # 52) on :
"Fink Fonts" Letterhead Fonts.... "Sweet Sixteen" from Esoteric
and the stuff that falls out of my brush, & pencil.........!!
Probably several other "Letter Styles" I like, but I ain't a "Font Freak"
...........cj
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
Depends on the job, but here are mine...
Serpentine Bold...a real workhorse letter style Decorated...quick drop shadows and 2 color lettering on a plotter IncisedNDltBold...the fatty of fonts Handle Gothic.....neat and clean VAGRounded...easy to weed URWWoodTypeD...can you say "firetrucks" Tiffany Heavy...Nice thick and thin style
Least favorites...
Brush Script done in all caps! EEEEEEWEWWWWW! Courier...typewriter jobs only Machine...poor man's race car numbers. Pipeline...bent paper clips.
Rapid
Posted by ScooterX (Member # 2023) on :
I go through moods with type. Recently I've been using a lot of:
Frutiger (lots of weights and styles). Similar to Univers or Futura as a work-horse, but just different enough to keep it interesting.
Caslon and Century Schoolbook (esp. condensed)
for casual stuff I'm going to paint, I make a pattern with: Sign Painters Slant (by House Industries) or Dom Bold
I haven't used "Impact" yet -- its a system font, so i didn't even know that I had it. I just looked it up because of this message thread, and now i might try it. It looks like Alternate Gothic, but bolder, and with a taller x-height.
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
I've got a lot of favorites. What I'd really like to do is to have nothing BUT favorites on my HD...eventually will take the time to do just that. Having alot of fonts are necessary for reproducing people's logos, etc....but when I think of it, I just very rarely do that anymore.
A few years ago, I went thru my fonts...all of them...and catagorized them into scripts, spur serif, ruled serif, sans serif, etc folders. It's been real good for me. Alot of times, I'm not looking for a particular script, but for a script that goes with another font nicely. I like having all of them together, instead of the whole enchilada in alphabetical order with no other rhyme or reason. It took me half a day to sort them this way, but like I said, it was several years ago and the sweat has all dried and I still have the finished labor to enjoy.
I've got thousands of fonts, but believe that I could narrow it down to 150-200 GOOD fonts and keep myself happy and busy for 20 years, give or take. (and I'll betcha there's more than a handfull of great designers on this site that'll tell you they could do the same with ten!!!)
[ August 09, 2003, 03:31 PM: Message edited by: Don Coplen ]
Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :
Favourite Fonts?
Anything my Customer likes!
If they ask me to paint...... Shizt on the Side wall of thier House or Car "I WILL!"
Fonts are a great item if it helps the design of the Sign..
Learning to use the right ones for the types of business is another thing.
Fine and Fance for a (Beauty Salon) or Big and Bold for the (Wrecking Company!)
Block...Script..Funk..! Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :
Gosh, That's like asking me my favorite food or color. With all three, it's the combination. Fink fonts are like burgers and fries eaten in a red hot rod. Ya know what I mean.
Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
Like Scooter said, it depends on my mood. For a good, non-serif font, I use Swiss 721 alot-then Bold it. Before bolding it, it is thinner than Arial, but once bolded its thicker than Arial and thinner than Arial Bold. From a distance its not to thin to read and not to thick that it looks like a blob.
I am still looking for that good all round script font. A customer sent me a sample of something that he wanted. I called and told him tha tI wanted that script font that he used-could he please email it to me. He sent it to me and it wasn't the same. He swore it was so I didn't want to agrue with him. I'll wait until he comes in and show him the difference.
Posted by Jonathan Androsky (Member # 2806) on :
I've always loved Americana, though it's beginning to become over-used in my area. I've been using Poster Bodoni a lot lately for LONG signage (read, facia boards).
The industry specific typfaces that have been mentioned earlier are all fun too.
Posted by TransLab (Member # 470) on :
Oh C'mon Ray...
I LOVE Brush Script All Caps ... especially on an arc with a black offset for drop shadow.
Posted by John Deaton III (Member # 925) on :
I use all the letterhead fonts quite a bit, along with the signdna fonts, and the scripts from signfonts.com. All of these are geared towards the sign industry and work for about any job. Outside of that I use Compacta, BigBand, Futura,Americana,Tiffany Bold,Microgramma, and a few others on a regular basis. Sometimes we can get stuck in a rut using our most favorite fonts on signs. I always try to keep from doing that. Posted by Sunny Holtzlander (Member # 4012) on :
I do find myself going thru spurts. A font catches my eye, and I notice myself using it alot that week.
A Few weeks ago, I did a lot of race cars and I seemed to use Buzz DNA font a lot.
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
Ed, that's CocaCola Classic bold. No, actually, I saw that font somewhere...maybe on one of those web based font sites (ya know the one...it's got 20 versions of the Star Trek lettering)
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