What's your favorite font?

Answer 1

I don't have a favorite.

The font used should be appropriate to the medim and the message.

For example, a script or other elaborate font is entirely wrong for pages and pages of text. It the point of the document is to be easily read, a clear, serifed font helps the eye move across lines of print so that the brain can aborb the meaning, without have to go through the effort of untangling each, individual letter.

Headlines, however, which are meant to be instantly recognizable and read, are often printed in bold, sans serif fonts, because these are the forms children are first taught; plain block letters.

Other, fancy, elaborate fonts are, mostly, intended to be decorative, rather than informative. One "sees" the font, and then has to go back to "read" the text.

Fonts also go in and out of style, over time. Remember the store front signs in old Western films? One rarely sees those styles, except when the designer wants to evoke feelings of those old times. Fonts like "Hobo" or "Homeward Bound," were popular in the 60s and 70s, but now, only rarely, show up in any published document.

I see fonts as being one of two types: Working and Decorative. A font that works well will, almost, NEVER go out of style. That is why a typeface like "Times Roman" is the default font in most word processing applications. The font is designed to fill up pages of text and be easy to read. There are others that work well for this purpose, like "Garamond" and other. Meanwhile, for headlines, "Helvetica" and others remain in use for decades.

Answer 2

fonts have different uses and different applications.

one of my favourite unusual fonts is Dusenberg from www.zangofonts.com
it evokes sort of a stylish cocktail lounge feeling.

for the small text on websites, i find Arial the most readable.

Answer 3

It's gotta be Helvetica - I don't think any other font has had its own film made about it, so that just shows how great it is!

Answer 4

Moderna for sans serif, and Garamond for classic serif.

Answer 5

Comic Sans MS - I like it because it looks like script.

Answer 6

Helvetica. It can be beat up, ripped up, pumped up, polished, fattened, slimmed-down and still look good.

Answer 7

Veranda or whatever its called...

Answer 8

fiolex girls and cloister black bt