QuoteThat must have been one riotous night in the pub!Originally Posted by jebus
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!
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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.
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
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!
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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.
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
Whats the point of webdings? is it some lame encryption or just for people who like to put pictures in their writing?
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"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.
Your Chairperson,
Gavin
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"Ex Bardus , Vicis"
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!
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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 comeback
Favourite font, favourite crayon colour and favourite humming noise..........................you'd never guess we hadn't qualified for Euro 2008.
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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.
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
You can't go wrong with Balmoral.
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Tell all the Bohs you know
that we've gone and won two-in-a-row
and it's not gonna be three
and it's not gonna be four
it's more likely to be 5-1.
Verdana for me!
You can if you write in CAPS!
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
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.
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You haven't been on foot too long then RS?
The Model Club
Tell all the Bohs you know
that we've gone and won two-in-a-row
and it's not gonna be three
and it's not gonna be four
it's more likely to be 5-1.
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.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Noticing your extensive contributions to the totty thread,
I would suggest perhaps you need to take your own advice
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