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Triton4
9th August 2003, 17:41
What is your favourite font?

I'd choose Verdana or TrebuchetMS for small-size text (under 10pt) & Handel Gothic or HumanST for bigger sizes (above 20pt).
Namelessv1
9th August 2003, 18:42
It's a bit hard to read, but Vampiress (http://www.1001fonts.com/font_details.html?font_id=2122) is one of my favorite fonts.
Niffle
9th August 2003, 23:55
Times New Roman Rules! :D

I like using Impact - big and bold!
Pixelcraft
10th August 2003, 00:22
I like dark garden - a weird, dark, twisted kind of font.
Joel
10th August 2003, 01:51
Verdana

:D
Mr_007
10th August 2003, 08:13
Arial italic!
anubis2003
10th August 2003, 12:41
wingdings
taylormemer
10th August 2003, 14:52
Arial and Impact are cool.
ryan
11th August 2003, 01:17
Verdana
MetallichicA
11th August 2003, 03:54
It really depends on what I'm doing with it. I use Impact in a lot of my ads, just because of how strong, bold, and eyecatching it is. Cosmos is a good fun font that can be stretched nicely. Boulevard is a great script font. Rosewood is an awesome "I just feel like standing out today" font. I'm using Century Gothic on my website because I love the circular letters.

Dawg4Life, you'd love my Neopets guild page (http://www.neopets.com/guilds/guild.phtml?oid=metallichica), it's got Vampiress for the links :D

I'm surprised that most people like the plain sans-serif or slab-serif fonts as opposed to something more striking. That's kind of unexpected.
Xerxes
11th August 2003, 06:01
Century Gothic is my favorite all purpose font, because it can be used in so many applications- Headline, title, copy- and can be used in so many themes. You can never go wrong with it.

My favorite fun font is "Potrzebie" by Rotodesign. In my paying design work, I am constantly working for clients in the entertainment business who love fun retro art. Thus I find myself using this in a lot of my pay work and personal work.

http://www.rotodesign.com/fonts/potrzebie/potrzebi.zip

Great idea for a thread, by the way.
jasonl
13th August 2003, 01:26
Helvetica =D
If you like Arial (tsk tsk):

http://www.iliveonyourvisits.com/helvetica/
anubis2003
13th August 2003, 16:39
That's an interesting page. I got 9/10. I missed the first one, and figured out the rest by deduction and guessing.:p
MetallichicA
13th August 2003, 22:54
9/10 because I know the differences, but they got me on APPLE...

I dislike both Helvetica AND Arial :D I'm a pretty anti-sans-serif kind of person, except for the decorative fonts.
Shenlong
14th August 2003, 01:34
Call me boring, but I like Times New Roman, 10 or 12 point...
Triton4
20th August 2003, 18:22
Originally posted by jasonl
Helvetica =D
If you like Arial (tsk tsk):

http://www.iliveonyourvisits.com/helvetica/

I scored 8/10 on that one.

I think the same argument holds good for two other popular fonts - Tahoma and Verdana.

Both are essentially the same, except that the former has less character-spacing & height, for equal font-size.