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[Elektro Demon]

Fonts are great. I love when a video or some article has a cool font.
Here are some of my favourite fonts. I use them in my videos on yt.
For official documents at work, I use either comic sans, dosis or arial.
So here's a picture of my fav fonts. The words are the name of the font.

What are your favourite fonts?

 

[Nymphae]

My favourites are blackletter fonts, I bought this book a few years ago:

Other than those, I am particularly fond of Futura for sans serif:

This is a great website taking a look at the use of fonts in popular science fiction, this guy gets deep as fuck. Check out his Blade Runner analysis, the guy was able to identify the Letraset sheet the production used for the codes that appear on a photograph in the movie:

Cuh-razy.

 

[MaestroMike]

Sans serif on the computer ftw. Reading articles on ft.com is much more enjoyable than say wsj.com. I don't like too much contrast in colors either so ft.coms color scheme is beast. Straight black on white is 2 much contrast.

 

[Cybrwzrd]

The unknown yet greatest villain in human history is Vincent Connare, creator of Comic Sans. The visual plague he unleashed upon the world infects middle aged women's work email and bulletin boards worldwide. The retched kerning of Comic Sans makes reading torture. He needs to be brought to justice for his crimes against humanity.

 

[Elektro Demon]

The unknown yet greatest villain in human history is Vincent Connare, creator of Comic Sans. The visual plague he unleashed upon the world infects middle aged women's work email and bulletin boards worldwide. The retched kerning of Comic Sans makes reading torture. He needs to be brought to justice for his crimes against humanity.

He looks like satan.

 

[Nymphae]

3 posts before the obligatory Comic Sans sucks right guys?

I've always thought it achieved it's design goals exceptionally well, and was simply a victim of being overused (makes you wonder why such a universally despised typeface would be selected so often...)

 

[Captain Zyrain]

I remember when I discovered fonts. It was back in the year of our lord, 1995 I believe.

Doing school reports, and realized I could download and print out all these reports using crazy fonts. I think my teachers hated me, but it was such a new time with everyone getting PCs that they just went along with it.

Now? I just want it small and readable.

 

[Elektro Demon]

3 posts before the obligatory Comic Sans sucks right guys?

I've always thought it achieved it's design goals exceptionally well, and was simply a victim of being overused (makes you wonder why such a universally despised typeface would be selected so often...)

I never quite understood why the hate for comic sans.
It's a solid font that does it's job in a professional environment.

 

[Nymphae]

I never quite understood why the hate for comic sans.
It's a solid font that does it's job in a professional environment.

Totally agree, I literally think it's just a matter of overuse, people would misuse it frequently (they would select it because contrary to popular opinion, it is a good looking font - people wanted to be more casual than Times New Roman, but more vibrant than Arial.)

 

[Thabass]

Totally agree, I literally think it's just a matter of overuse, people would misuse it frequently (they would select it because contrary to popular opinion, it is a good looking font - people wanted to be more casual than Times New Roman, but more vibrant than Arial.)

This and the fact it was used...unironically wrong in some instances. If something is a more serious tone and you see comic-sans as the font, you tend to not treat the message seriously.

It still shouldn't be used in those situations, but it's not a bad font when used correctly.

 

[DS_Joost]

You guys praising (even saying it looks good like wtf?) Comic Sans have lost some screws in the head haven't you?

The fuck is wrong with you people?

 

[Nymphae]

It still shouldn't be used in those situations, but it's not a bad font when used correctly.

For sure, I would go as far as to say it's an excellent font for it's purposes. Something like this:

But remember people, letter spacing is very important.

 

[Nymphae]

You guys praising (even saying it looks good like wtf?) Comic Sans have lost some screws in the head haven't you?

The fuck is wrong with you people?

We're not bandwagoners and can see a good design for what it is despite amateur graphic designers giving it a bad name.

 

[PSYGN]

Comic Sans has its applications. Designers hate it because it's often used in the wrong context.

I don't know what you mean to use it in a professional environment, though, unless that environment deals with nurturing it would seem out of place for any serious business message.

 

[Nymphae]

Comic Sans has its applications. Designers hate it because it's often used in the wrong context.

I'm a designer and I like it, it's just fashionable to hate it, I've heard more people who know nothing about graphic design express hatred for it than people who know a thing or two about typography, it's weird.

 

[Kadayi]

I don't really have a use for them myself in my particular work, but I've always admired the retro styling of House industries fonts though: -

House Industries

House Industries' website and store

houseind.com

Chalet 1980, for instance, is just delightful

Chalet by House Industries

Chalet is clean, simple and versatile sans-serif font from House Industries.

houseind.com

 

[DS_Joost]

We're not bandwagoners and can see a good design for what it is despite amateur graphic designers giving it a bad name.

And what if I genuinely despise it?

 

[Kadayi]

And what if I genuinely despise it?

Bruce Wayne, 9 Orphaned. The latest victim as Comic Sans terrorises Gotham City.

 

[Nymphae]

And what if I genuinely despise it?

You are free to not like something of course, but maybe don't walk in here swinging dick asking what's wrong with us for liking it. It achieves it's design goals and is/was a highly popular font not because it looks like shit, but precisely because it does it's job well and fit the more casual vibe people wanted for their specific goals. It's a casual handwriting font that is meant to look distinct from typical serif and sans serif fonts available at the time.

What is there to not like about it specifically besides overuse? It's like saying you hate the Toys R Us font because it's childish or something, like, ok? From a design standpoint, Toys R Us and Comic Sans are well designed and have specific applications which they excell at. Saying you hate them says more about you than the font itself I think lol.

 

[Elektro Demon]

You guys praising (even saying it looks good like wtf?) Comic Sans have lost some screws in the head haven't you?

The fuck is wrong with you people?

I don't see nothing wrong with it. It's not the best font I've ever seen but I have seen some internal company documents with this font.
Honestly, I don't get why there's so much hate for it.