Consulted some graphic designers last night (two to be precise) and they were sickened that Helvetica hasn't a) won it by now, and b) been mentioned
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Consulted some graphic designers last night (two to be precise) and they were sickened that Helvetica hasn't a) won it by now, and b) been mentioned
That must have been one riotous night in the pub!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by jebus
Im a self confessed font geek and sometime graphic designer.... Hate Helvetica myself as its too common. It’s making a bit of a comeback. Dublin Bus have rebranded their logo and Helvetica Neue is the new typeface. Far too plain I reckon. Dont get me started on Comic Sans though. I see red when i see it used.
comic sans all the way for me....anyone who relies on their font to show the "seriousness" of their point is a spoofer plain and simple. No surprise at all as to the identity of some of the "font nazis" on here.
Every damn company in the world uses Helvetica. Sick of it. Pretty unimaginative graphic designers!Quote:
Originally Posted by jebus
it’s pure laziness too. Its the default font in Quark Xpress and so close to Arial... If hating Comic Sans makes me a ‘font Nazi’, Im fine with that.
Whats the point of webdings? is it some lame encryption or just for people who like to put pictures in their writing?
"Wingdings" was a font which was pretty much just supposed to be used in design, like a form of clip art. Microsoft thought it'd be super awesome to also have a font that had some clip art for the web too, hence, Webdings. They were wrong. Apart from it breaking the idea that images should be images and text should be text, they copyrighted it so nobody other than Windows users could use it. Thus, it won't show up, for example in the linux that I'm using, or on Mac, or on mobile devices, etc. The font you've put in up about comes out as just boxes for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by GuisaSaigon
Never really though too much about it.
Not quite as many existential implications as the crayon question :)
Usually stick with Times or Arial.
In college they recommended we type essays in Garamond and it's nice, we used Courier for script writing, it's an OK one too.
Of course Monotype Corsiva is the true king of fonts, at least it was my favorite when I worked for a freesheet and they used to get me to make up some of the ads!
I think thats the point of it though, everyone recognises it whether they know it or not, and everyone reacts to it. There was a graphic design show with some big name graphic designer in Dublin a few months back (don't ask me his name) and it was dedicated to Helvetica. They both bought t shirts, (thankfully spared me the DVD) and mugs. Must be on a bit of a comebackQuote:
Originally Posted by GavinZac
Favourite font, favourite crayon colour and favourite humming noise..........................you'd never guess we hadn't qualified for Euro 2008.
The typeface you get on the new iPods is Helvetica too. Definitely on a comeback i think, may be a retro thing, I think 98FM have changed their logo to a Helvetica type too without the FM thing.
You can't go wrong with Balmoral.
Verdana for me!
You can if you write in CAPS! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dfx-
Just plain old Arial for me.
I like the font used by Ford in their ads in recent years, dont know what its called though.
You haven't been on foot too long then RS? :D
I like Mom's Old Typewriter. You'll have to download it. It can go wonky on the zero digit mind.
I also like Stencil as it reminds me of Private Benjamin.
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Originally Posted by Ruben Sosa
Noticing your extensive contributions to the totty thread,
I would suggest perhaps you need to take your own advice :p :D