Poll: What is your favorite font family?
Thursday March 22, 2007
Just like we discussed favorite colors last week, fonts make up a big part of Web design, probably because most Web pages are primarily text.
There are too many fonts to list even a small sub-set of them, so I thought I'd mention the generic font families and then you can comment on which specific families you like the best.
What is your favorite font family?
As usual, there are other possible answers, if your answer isn't here, let us know what it is.
Comments
The ubiquitous Tahoma 8pt bold is nice for site navigation links, too bad it doesn’t look as good in larger sizes.
The font I don’t like is Georgia and Times New Roman.
Arial and Comic Sans are good.
Georgia used to be my favourite. Now it’s verdana.
I like “Andy” but can’t seem to find it for FREE!! So I’m using Comic Sans MS.
Different fonts for different purposes. I like them all, each has their strength.
I’m a huge Arial fan.
Arial is a clean, easily readable font at any language.
Arial is also one of the most portable fonts as many versions of different browsers will render Arial correctly.
Hi
I will use Verdana for bodytext and for headings Gillsans, Twn cent MT. its good to see and there will be readability.
prasanna
Comic Sans is my all time favourite!
Serif typeface for print.
Sans-Serif typeface for screen.
Monospace for code.
Arial is kind of confusing when trying to distinguish between capital I and lower case l. Also, the letter O and the numeric 0 is hard to distinguisn.
For Sans-Serif typface, Times New Roman works for me.
For monospace fonts, I don’t like Courier New typeface because it’s hard to tell zero’s (0) and letter (O) appart. Andele Mono and Monaco works well for my monospace alternatives.
Font selection depends on font usage. I am still in the process of deciding.
I use chaucer and jester frequently for a little flair. Not sure of the font families. Basic chat room posts, I mostly use arial.
My favorite font family is the one my visitor is using. In other words I never define a certain font or even a family of fonts.
favorite font is comic sans
Lucida Calligraphy
Is seriff but a bit fancy without being cursive.
hi
m fan of Georgia and comic sans Ms
Comic Sans has no structure whatsoever and looks cheap due to its typical context of use in comic books.
Arial is overused and easy to replicate by anyone, an email crisis occurred a few years ago with Commonwealth Bank due to the fact that it simply used Helvetica as their logo type and any novice designer could make documents appear official and tricked a lot of stupid people.
Miriad and Times New Roman show that you’re just not “designing” your work, it’s amateur and same goes for use of 12 point. Unless of course you use TNR for book copy, which is understandable due to its readability and density it was initially designed for.
My favourite fonts as a CREATIVE person,
Farrier and Snipple as decorative fonts,
Proxima Nova and Bodoni Egyptian for screen.
Park Avenue as script - or whatever the Devil May Cry logo uses.
And Korataki as a sci-fi/techno.
I suggest being a little bit more bold about your type design really.