11-29-2015, 06:28 PM | #21 |
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Re: Best and Worst Fonts
the real question is how many of you font elitists are the same people who would needlessly insert colors, guidelines, or stupid shapes into visual data display
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AYY LMAO GILL SANS
Please don't use Gill Sans. The R makes me sad. The Q and p aren't nice either.
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12-1-2015, 09:30 PM | #24 |
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Default has been working fine for me for years
Times New Roman is also legit 90s Website Typefront or anything with pictures as the letters are sh*t that should have never happened Last edited by MixMasterLar; 12-1-2015 at 09:31 PM.. Reason: I don't know my fonts |
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i was at a hotel and their room numbers and signs were done using papyrus
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12-1-2015, 10:58 PM | #27 |
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I unironically used this in an upcoming GFX set in one of my packs.
It's for a steel drum and guitar song that also features a sexy sax solo, though, so I feel justified.
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i think gill sans looks nice
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The thing with Humanist Sans typefaces is that the uppercase proportions are derived from Roman capital letters, meanwhile the lowercase have a distinct design to mimic the feel of human handwriting and calligraphy. Humanist Sans weren't really an innovation in terms of a classification itself, but more that it became a stabilizing form of sans serif to be used for sign making / sign writing specifically. It was what really introduced a basic monoline "block" letter based upon classical roman proportions, which had not been previously done before in the form of traditional metal type and casting. With that being said, Gill Sans was originally designed as a display face for signage, before its popularity in usage lead to its adoption as a text typeface. Although it doesn't necessarily look appealing as a text face, there's no doubt that Gill Sans' popularity is attributed to its absolute clarity as a display face. Also to note, Neo-Grotesque sans-serif typefaces like Helvetica and Univers weren't designed until the 1950s, meanwhile Gill Sans was designed in the late 1920s. In short, you can attribute the entirety of monoline "block" letters to Gill Sans' creation because without it, you wouldn't have Helvetica's monotonous letterforms. The more you know. P.S. Helvetica is the pinnacle of boring. It's admittedly nice, but it's the most basic bitch font.
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Helvetica is the English porn of type faces
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