11-25-2015, 01:25 PM | #1 |
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Best and Worst Fonts
Which font do you love the most and which font should not have been invented?
I love Calibri because of its light and printed-like design. However, Century Gothic looks absolutely horrible with its block letters and overly big letters. It honestly hurts my eyes.
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Feels like a Comic Sans kind of day.
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11-25-2015, 02:32 PM | #3 |
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As far as standard fonts goes, those do the job pretty well if you want to try something different than default system fonts :
I usually tend to go for Baskerville when it comes to serif fonts : Some display fonts that I like : (some of those aren't free like Pill Gothic, Uni Sans or DIN) The worst font imo is Bleeding Cowbys. The guy himself said he "based" his font on Oklahoma : "@ Kodoichi: I always told people that I based myself on Oklahoma (a free font) to create this one. Every designer has influences. This font is just a revised version of his font. BTW, writing that I am an ass as a comment makes you look really smart, congrats!" Compare it yourself and you'll see it's a complete rip-off.
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11-25-2015, 02:42 PM | #4 |
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I quite like Calibri but I've been using Open Sans more because of the Apache license. For monospace I'm fine with Courier.
Not sure about worst, but something like Bleeding Cowboys (mentioned above) is really egregious. Last edited by AutotelicBrown; 11-25-2015 at 02:45 PM.. |
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I like Calibri. I've also been using the DS-Digital font as the timer for my splits.
http://www.dafont.com/ds-digital.font For worst font, that title would definitely have to go to Bleeding Cowboys, imo.
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in the off chance that someone here is really into typography, I recommend picking up this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-T.../dp/0205759793
I still go back to this book every now and then when I'm absolutely torn with typeface choices as a designer it just sounds to me that you don't like geometric sans-serif typefaces in general. century gothic is a safe choice for that classification, since it's widely available on something like 90% of all windows pcs. most geometric sans-serif typefaces require purchasing licenses in general, since widely available sans-serif system fonts are mostly limited to humanist or grotesque classifications.
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11-25-2015, 03:27 PM | #7 |
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You can't make a font thread without webdings~
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[font="webdings"]Honestly, if you don't quote this, you probably won't be able to read it.[/font] Honestly, if you don't quote this, you probably won't be able to read it. I used to Verdana everything I could, it felt more relaxing to read. Edit: Actually, you can copy/paste webdings and read it fine rofl.. #learned something weee Last edited by Hakulyte; 11-25-2015 at 03:29 PM.. |
11-25-2015, 03:37 PM | #8 |
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I love verdana and I dislike Chopin font
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best: birth of a hero
it simply doesn't get better than this. it has a timeless fractured style that is introspective yet still allows itself to be a little showy. you don't mess with a classic. worst: helvetica literally cancer
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11-25-2015, 05:47 PM | #10 |
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11-26-2015, 10:07 AM | #11 |
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Harabara is literally the bane of my existence when it comes to fonts.
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11-26-2015, 10:26 AM | #12 |
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surprised no one has mentioned comic sans yet
I mean its horrible but I guess it has some appeal for being really quite stupid as for the best font, theres one I use fairly often called Manifesto which is pretty cool
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11-26-2015, 11:01 AM | #13 |
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The font I use pretty much everywhere is Palatino Linotype. Don't know why, just stuck for some reason. If only for that, it's probably the best in my eyes.
I don't think there's any 'worst' font, pretty much every font has a use somewhere. Even poor, maligned Comic Sans is useful in posters for illiterate children. |
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I like Bookman Old Style (Book Antiqua is fine)
I don't like Arial
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The underlying fact as to why it's hated is because grown ass adults have been using it for the wrong reasons. The ultimate kicker is that comic sans is available on about 99.9% of all windows machines, so when people are looking for a "fun", "playful", or "friendly" looking font, that's usually the first one they end up on out of everything. P.S. If Comic Sans still isn't your thing, Comic Neue now exists.
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fucking lmao
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11-29-2015, 06:11 PM | #19 |
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They are such overused fonts though too. Super tacky; those kinds of fonts turned me off so much that I have to custom texture any font I want to have that grunge font, to fit a unique design. It cannot look like someone else's brush fucked font.
Also it's pretty basic but I like Aaux Pro. And geogrotesque.
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I like the one where it's pictures instead of letters.
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