Comments on: Design Open Discussion - What Are Your Favorite Fonts?

By: Stephen Coles

Stephen Coles — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:43:51 +0000

I’m a couple years late to the game, but I thought as well mention many of my favorite typefaces are shown in my Flickr gallery.
And here are some updated links for the old, broken ones in lorissa’s comment: Futura Light and Myriad.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:12:28 +0000

Trebuchet MS would be my favourite, closely followed by Georgia although I’m not really a fan of other serifs (Palatino is nice though). Both with no italics or boldness.

Trebuchet, in my opinion, is best used in headers with nice soft and neutral colours. Georgia I like in around 14pt dark grey but not in long blocks of text. Kinda specific but it’s what I like.

Fonts that I hate - most typewriter fonts (i.e., the font that I’m seeing as I’m writing this). They all have weirdly large gaps between words when you type and everything looks very unattractive to me.

Oh, and Comic Sans I can’t stand, like most people reading this!

By: Dustin

Dustin — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:19:35 +0000

Verdana has always been my favorite web font.

Recently I was doing some work with Trajan and I like it a lot (for its style).

By: Kimmy

Kimmy — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:57:49 +0000

I have to admit a soft spot for Palatino (http://www.fontshop.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=verity.search&font_categories_search=font_name_search&searchstr=palatino&image.x=0&image.y=0)

It’s a nice clean font that I think brings a really elegant touch as headers on the web. Admittedly, a serif, so not the best for long/dense prose, but just a work of art!

I also throw my backing to helvetica and arial (just plain arial).. tried and true classics.

Oh, and while on the topic of fonts: have you ever worked with Windows and Mac and had the fonts be named as a different variation of the font on each? Highly annoying and unnecessary. Just to pre-empt the comments about avoiding Windows, I am trying with all my might

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:00:13 +0000

I really like the readability and beauty of Trebuchet MS, although it’s a MS font. Text blocks appear uncongested and leightweight. In reference to the previous comment: I refuse to tolerate Comic Sans, imho there is nothing worse.

By: Steve Tucker

Steve Tucker — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:08:59 +0000

I love DIN and Interstate Light - though I am quite impartial to Comic Sans

By: kellie

kellie — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:49:01 +0000

Helvetica and Helvetica Neue—Truly a classic. One of the most versatile typeface ever. Not to mention the best web typeface in my book…

Meta–Another great San Serif along the lines of Helvetica.

Sabon–Elegant, timeless, versatile Serif typeface.

Rosewood Fill– Along the lines of Clarendon. An homage to the woodtype look.

Mrs. Eaves, Cholla, Filosophia– My selection from Emigre. I love most of their typefaces.

By: me

me — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:19:48 +0000

Univers, American typewriter, Rockwell.

By: lorissa

lorissa — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:56:32 +0000

Futura Light - love the slender feel of this, but still friendly - not too mod or dated.

Phinster Fine - lovely rounded letters.

Myriad - simple, versatile little font.

I’m sure I’ll think of more, but those came to mind first.

By: dascola

dascola — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:21:35 +0000

DIN - Bold (only if used in all caps)