What's your favorite Typefont?

benbradley · Apr 1, 2010

You know, how they ask peeps their favorite color, as a righter you gotta have a Favorite Typefont, and it's gotta be available on MikeySoft Wonders.

There's one font I love so much I wrote a song dedicated to it:
http://fawm.org/songs/5811/

Kindness · Apr 1, 2010

Times New Roman definitely

Sage · Apr 1, 2010

There was one called something like Fioles Girls, but I don't see it anymore. It was pretty. Script with hearts

Aji · Apr 1, 2010

I'm partial to Calibri

Niki_G · Apr 1, 2010

Can't go wrong with a classic. I'm also going to have to go with: TNR

True · Apr 1, 2010

I like Times New Roman, Courier New, Gentium Basic, Garamond, Bell MT, and Centaur. (These are my top six.)

Arial (Unicode MS) is nice too.

Sage · Apr 1, 2010

Speaking of fun with fonts, did the AW homepage fonts change, or is it just me being AFD paranoid?

Xelebes · Apr 1, 2010

Venetian 301 BT or Classica-Roman.

Ken · Apr 1, 2010

Kindness said:
Times New Roman definitely

... same here. It's a very readable font, which is what matters most to me. Old typewritter font is pretty cool, too. Haven't found a place where I can download that from, though. Courier is supposed to look like it, I believe, but it really doesn't :-(

Sandy Shin · Apr 1, 2010

Cambria and Times New Roman for novel and essay writing, and Lucida Sans Unicode and Verdana for Internet reading. :]

free_cashews_on_me · Apr 1, 2010

Centaur is awesome. Percy Jackson was written in it. I also like Georgia and TNR.

AlishaS · Apr 1, 2010

I write everything in Courier New but my favorite font these day's in Bleeding Cowboy

maxmordon · Apr 1, 2010

I have wet dreams with Vivaldi.

legendary bum · Apr 1, 2010

Love Georgia, Bell, and Centaur!

soapdish · Apr 1, 2010

Aji said:
I'm partial to Calibri

Yes, I *love* Calibri, for a sans serif. Otherwise I love Georgia for serif. It's elegant.

Sage · Apr 1, 2010

I kinda hate Calibri. Only because it takes over everything.

benbradley · Apr 1, 2010

Now HERE's a reason to pick a typefont:

University Looks to Save Big Bucks on Ink with Font Change
http://www.kyw1060.com/University-Looks-to-Save-Big-Bucks-on-Ink-with-Fon/6680903

Before, the default font for the university’s computers was Arial – one of the more common, sans serif fonts. But now, the school uses Century Gothic – a slightly smaller sans serif font that the university says uses 30 percent less printer ink than Arial. Ink isn’t cheap – it can run up to about $10,000 a gallon. In the photo above, both styles are written in 30-point font.

With that price, they must be talking about the retail price of inkjet ink. Here's a cost-saving suggestion: Laser printers.

Ken · Apr 1, 2010

... have noticed that too. Printing out things in Arial uses a lot of ink. It's almost the equivalent of printing out TNR in bold.

Deleted member 42 · Apr 1, 2010

Y favoreþ þe noble Palatino for bodye text, for þe elegante serifs in print. Bot for þe bodye text on þe new-fangleded screene, Y favore þe Georgia. Y am also partial to þe Zapifino.

þise Comic Sans þo, yt ys an assaulte upon all gode people of taste and trewe witte.

blacbird · Apr 1, 2010

Has nothing to do with submission manuscripts, but on-screeeeeeen and for personal paper copies for editing, Garamond 14 pt.

caw

Poetoffire · Apr 2, 2010

Times New Roman, 12 pt, non double spaced.

For embellishments and such, Little Lord Fontleroy is very pretty, and for a little grittier pretty, A Hundred Pounds of Fairy Cakes. I also like finding fonts online for visual projects.

But Times New Roman is a MUST. I can write, say, notes in Courier, but for manuscripts, there's only one font for me.

Jodie · Apr 2, 2010

I like Georgia but when I'm printing I usually use Ecofont Vera Sans, since it uses 25 % less ink.

Sage · Apr 2, 2010

Jodie said:
I like Georgia but when I'm printing I usually use Ecofont Vera Sans, since it uses 25 % less ink.

I've never heard of that, but it sounds cool

Sage · Apr 2, 2010

I'm going to move this to a more appropriate place, now that we are no long Fun with Fonts.

auntybug · Apr 2, 2010

This video is hilarious for font lovers

eta: great song

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