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#2 (permalink) Fri Sep 05, 2008 16:42 pm What's your favourite text font? |
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| I like Ming-Cho that is paired with Century (for alphabets), and it doesn't differ much from Times New Roman. |
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NinaZara I'm a Communicator ;-)

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#3 (permalink) Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:27 am What's your favourite text font? |
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It has to be Calibri. I am using it a lot these days. _________________ Non-native speaker of English
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Daemon99 I'm here quite often ;-)
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#4 (permalink) Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:18 am What's your favourite text font? |
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I like both Verdana and Arial. _________________ Billie Jean is not my lover. Hee. |
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Prezbucky I'm a Communicator ;-)

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#5 (permalink) Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:27 pm What's your favourite text font? |
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I suggest that you guys have a look at "Helvetica" and "Georgia".
Beside "Verdana" and other well-known fonts, they are also good choices. ^ ^ |
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Torenable I'm new here and I like it ;-)
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#6 (permalink) Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:26 am What's your favourite text font? |
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I prefer Hoeffler Text. It's one of the fonts where the numbers go above and below the baseline, which I think makes them easier to read. I also love Courier, believe it or not.
The most interesting thing to me, Torsten, is that all of the fonts you mention are ones that come standard on Windows PCs. There are people walking the earth (obviously not you) who think that they're just stuck with the fonts Microsoft gives you.
Sometimes I have to do layouts with olde tyme German fonts, so I experiment with a lot of black letter typefaces. When you see them individually, you imagine they all look the same. However, when you start trying various ones in a layout, you realize you can't use just any old one. Some remind me of Nazi propaganda, some remind me of the Munich Olympics, some remind me of the Weimar Republic, and they won't work when I need something that looks like a Detroit German newspaper page from the 1860s. I usually settle for Fraktur. |
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Jamie (K) I'm a Communicator ;-)
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