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This entry was posted on May 21, 2007 at 2:34 pm and is filed under Adobe, Advertising, Art, Fonts, Personal.
Rambling with Bellur
May 21, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Lucida Sans mostly for documents!
Arial is set as default..
Actually I am not so well versed with the names, some are really lovely…
Is there anything like fonts used mostly my men/women, different zodiacs etc.,? Just asking.. nothing official anyway!
May 21, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Veena,
Lucida Sans is very readable at all sizes throughout a wide range of professional documents. Apt for office correspondence.
Fonts can be depicted as feminine and masculine, among other traits. Feminine fonts can be described as fine, serifed, sleek, and elegant while masculine fonts can be characterized as being blocky and bold.
Afaik, most empirical research concerning fonts focuses on the legibility or readability. Like humans, each font has a personality of its own. Typographers and designers are often interested in the typeface personality or “typographic allusion” which refers to “the capacity of a typestyle to connote meaning over and above the primary meaning which is linguistically conveyed by words” (Lewis & Walker, 1989, p. 243).
May 21, 2007 at 5:18 pm
I use Times New Roman mostly, but I love the curves and slants in Monotype corsiva.
May 21, 2007 at 5:25 pm
trebuchet
Then helvetica, and 3rd is Arial. Clean and simple. Readability is the key.
Nice post.
Cheers
Steve
May 21, 2007 at 5:37 pm
WingDings!!! I have spent many days just converting a para into wingding and back!
May 21, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Trebuchet, size 10
May 21, 2007 at 7:26 pm
My list:
1. Verdana – Size 10
2. Tahoma – Size 10
3. Trebuchet – Size 10
I am bugged of Times….and Arial is something I have never liked.
May 21, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Trebuchet
Verdana
Tahoma
All in size 12 🙂
Vani, same choice in different order – wow! 🙂
May 21, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Ariel Rounded
Trebuchet
Verdana
Times New Roman
May 22, 2007 at 6:14 am
Times New Roman, Verdana and Courier New is what I use most of the times.
Wingdings, huh ? LOL
May 22, 2007 at 9:30 am
regurgitating some old comments on this blog! 🙂
May 22, 2007 at 9:35 am
thanks all.
sb,
thanks for making us regurgitate to the post on TIMES NEW ROMAN.
May 22, 2007 at 9:54 am
I use the boring Times New Roman almost always! There was something about fonts on BBC website too recently. Did you see that?
May 22, 2007 at 10:26 am
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May 22, 2007 at 10:26 am
Montoype corsiva is my all time fav.
Georgia, Lucidasans, Verdana for correspondence.
Comic sans is another favourite of mine.
Times -Arial for official 😦
May 22, 2007 at 10:28 am
mridula,
you are one among the TNR loyalists!
what a coincidence that i just posted an article on Helvetica mentioning about the fantastic BBC write-up! 🙂
usha,
you have variety there! nice to know you like georgia.
May 22, 2007 at 11:03 am
I love Swizz family & Futura family
May 22, 2007 at 11:13 am
Verdana is my favourite font.
While designing the webpages i will choose verdana for content
creation. For corporate sites i will use Verdana for menu navigation. I feel which is more readable and best.
For jazzy & funky kind of design i will create my own font.
Because i love giving unique appearence for letters.
May 22, 2007 at 11:32 am
I am very much interested in Interstate Font,
Its very rare font at the same time, we can use for all purposes. Not only for Brochure, and Desktop work,
It is for major part of reading and catchable font…………………….
Thanks
May 22, 2007 at 11:44 am
kishore, satish & senthil,
thanks for your comments.
Futura: based loosely on the simple forms of circle, triangle and square. Modern and legible font.
Swiss: inspired by Helvetica!
Verdana: designed to be readable at small sizes on a computer screen. similar to Frutiger.
Interstate: exceptional legibility. clean, simple and easy on the eyes, few jobs are outside the range of Interstate. the typeface lends itself particularly well for newspaper, magazine and online use.
May 22, 2007 at 2:12 pm
My favorite fonts list is based on the products I work on. To list a few…Century School Book, Georgia, Optima, Kaufman and last but not least Helvetica….
RK, a good post on Fonts & about fonts…..thnx for the info
May 22, 2007 at 2:17 pm
comic sans ms and impact
May 22, 2007 at 4:24 pm
tahoma
May 22, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Helvetica
May 22, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Approx in order of preference: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Futura.
Usually I like Monotype Corsiva for any poetic wordings / greetings, Vivaldi is good as well but Corsiva makes for better readability.
For some reason I don’t like Times New Roman 🙂 probably because its been my first ever font since I started with comps, and got bored of it!
May 22, 2007 at 4:42 pm
optima
garamond
palatino
monotype corsiva
kids
May 22, 2007 at 4:45 pm
garamond
helvetica
vivaldi
goudy
swiss 721
lucida handwriting
zapf chancery
May 22, 2007 at 4:47 pm
verdana
May 22, 2007 at 4:49 pm
i prefer shelly allegro script. other favourites are expert sans,
palatino, zapf chancery.
May 22, 2007 at 4:55 pm
* souvenir
* boulevard
* medici script
* gill sans
May 22, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Humanist Family Typefaces
May 23, 2007 at 9:06 am
once again, thanks all for sharing your fav. font list with everyone here.
May 23, 2007 at 10:40 am
Verdana always 😉
From official letters to love letters everywhere Verdana
May 23, 2007 at 4:50 pm
I like Gill Sans, Comic Sans and Present.
May 23, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Verdana for me as well.
BTW, RK, thanks for the wish that day!
May 24, 2007 at 11:18 am
Myriad for sans-serif, ITC New Baskerville for serif
July 2, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Georgia
My favourite font