Interestingly (or maybe not), where I work they use Frutiger as the "house style" typeface...

Hmm.. ok, I see that's not that big a deal after all... Heh. So do the UK National Health Service, Swisscom and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp among others.

One word.




Goudy

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Quite right. That is one word. Well done

For both the "contest.com" and the "Photoshop" bit I used the 'Humanist' font. (I think it was from the ITC fonthouse, but I'm not sure, 'cos I have the font on my other comp.)

Ledirlo, I'm very surprised to see that a great artist like you digs the Helvetica font so much. I really feel it lacks a proper oblique (I'm learning fast, YPA )

hold on,.. I dig the helvetica too much,... it is the mother of all fonts.

Never used Goudy and I guess I never will. Serif fonts are not really my thing.

hahaha like I am a great artist ...and did I ever use hlvetica without noticing, really ?

There is a Goudy Sans - in fact I thought that was the one Al meant... but maybe not.

Personally, I prefer Helvetica or Tahoma to Arial when it comes to basic sans fonts. And my favourite serif font is Bookman, rather than the same old Times New Roman...

Isn't that Garamond, by Claude Garamond?



Well, what do you expect from a guy that's very keen about this kind of furniture:

"Maybe it's a good thing there is no photo in the header. Just keep things clear in the overall design of the site and have the photos of the posts be the fireworks. I think adding a nother photo in the background will be distracting"

Good God Chrispis, if a single picture in the header of the page can distract the viewer from the contest posts the members here would have to be incrdibly lame. While there are some members who might subscribe to that theory I think oveall the quality of work hee MIGHT stand a chance of not being upstaged . . . . .

Now, back to the important discussion at hand, type!

You have never used a serif font and never will? Jeeez, that is so limiting. First, so you will understand, the majority of type that I use is san serif. I use a lot of Agenda now and my business card is Helvetica light except for the logotype which is CGDelphien. I am not married to serif fonts but I do not avoid them either. Each family has a tone and a feel and each is appropriate for different circumstances. You should really do some reading on the subject to discover the subtletry and unspoken messages inherently carried by type.

You are missing out on a lot.

I work in textbook design, so obviously I use a lot of clean, serif fonts. In book design, the typography should whisper. (Unlike in advertising, where it should shout.) Also, it's been shown that serif fonts are considerably easier to read in large blocks. My favorite font family is Caslon. I also use a lot of Garamond. Gill Sans is my favorite sans serif font, although if I had to use only one, I'd pick Franklin Gothic.

Bookman is our house font for manuscripts--before books go into design. I don't particularly like it (fonts with huge x-heights look dated to me), but the name is just right.

I didn't say that, I never used Goudy. I did some corporate identities wit a serif font, but I rather had them seen wih a sans serif type. I like to mix them in brochures or annuals, but still I prefer sans serif. I like clean designs.



Well that is a pretty orthodox view on it. Rather save way to look at it. Or are you talking about novels for housewifes and advertisements for washing powder? One blank page with a small 8 point 'whispering' font can say more than a big screaming page iwth huge fonts.


I read bout that, and on this one also disagree. A sans serif page can be as readable as one with a serif. Just don't believe what they all write down. Those so called 'laws' are pretty dated (not all of them of course) because the recent font development already proved the opposite.

The fonts I use a lot are: DIN, Trade Gothic (always good), TheSans (thesis, caps is excellent), Quadraat (serif and sans serif), Bell Gothic, Folio, Eursotile (extended for that nice 60's look), Kasse (nice for headings), Solex, Minion(serif ), TheSerif (thesis), and of course the cooper black and fette faktur for that nice nazi-look .

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...and, for the record, you were joking about the comic sans, weren't you.

Definitely,... my brother has the domianname for the dutch ban comic sans site: www.bancomicsans.nl.
A dutch mac magazine asked if they could use it

Sorry to be a bother, but
the link to the high res version of the logo isn't working

well, having only just seen some of these messages when the thread popped back up, I would like to officially add Copperplate to the list of fonts to be banned. Comic Sans is to "fun and informal" as Copperplate is to "serious and arty."