I think I blew the joke with the blog title.
What I’m trying to say is —
Since switching from PC-Land to Mac-opolis, I’ve since lost a considerable number of the fonts I’d built up on that old PC. Which is not a huge deal, really — many of them were total pants. Just the same, it has come time, I think, to not so much replenish the same fonts on the Mac but to build a bigger and better army with which I can write profanity and pithy sayings in very big, very pretty letters.
And so, I ask you about font.
What’s your favorite font?
To write in? For titles? For posters or other typographical design work?
Bonus points if it’s a font I can download free or cheap somewhere!
This isn’t just about me replenishing lost fonts, though —
I am genuinely curious which fonts you love and use the most.
FONT ME, BABY.
Christy Lynn Allen (@SamanthaGBooks) says:
Fonts for Peas! http://kevinandamanda.com/fonts/fontsforpeas/ The BEST handwriting fonts and doodles for handouts, flyers, signs, websites, workbooks, scrapbooks, …I even used them in my middle-grade mystery novel where I needed fun handwritten notes/graphics. Fantastic terms of use…free in general, and if you use commercially you can either post a Fonts for Peas badge on your website or purchase a low cost license.
April 1, 2013 — 6:24 PM
jenifersf says:
I used the Blackadder font for my name on my invoices to people. Yeah, I know. I got paid anyway.
April 1, 2013 — 6:27 PM
marlanesque says:
Boring old Times for me. On occasion, if I am feeling really sexy, I’ll use Courier or Book Antiqua.
The party never stops around here.
April 1, 2013 — 6:39 PM
Gabrielle Peralta says:
I like writing in Andalus and occasionally Garamond.
April 1, 2013 — 6:57 PM
Andys says:
I often like condensed, semi-bold or bold fonts, because I like to look like I’m shouting in a classy manner. Something like this, I suppose. http://www.dafont.com/bookmark.font
April 1, 2013 — 7:27 PM
tigs (@syzara) says:
Palatino for all my writing. It’s good to read in print. And since it comes from the Mac originally (or that’s where I encountered it first), it should be already available to you. It’s one of the defaults on the iPad now at least.
As for other uses; that really depends on what you want to use it for.
April 1, 2013 — 7:38 PM
darah says:
bancomicsans.com. There we are. Way off course with the comic-fonts. If you harbour a deep resentment for the infamous comic sans, this provides an overwrought manifesto (and news!) on it’s entire distressing nature. The Pope is even a victim. DON’T LET IT GET YOU.
http://bancomicsans.com/main/?page_id=98 <— fonts 😀
April 1, 2013 — 7:43 PM
Karen Donhue says:
Calibre – I don’t get out much…
April 1, 2013 — 8:42 PM
Bookewyrme says:
I use Book Antiqua for just about everything, unless I have to change it for specific things (like MS subscriptions).
April 1, 2013 — 10:55 PM
Chris van Soolen says:
While writing, I love to use Futura. I find the sans-serif less intrusive on my consciousness when I write, while still being perfectly legible and pleasing to look at. (Actually, I love that typeface for most anything.)
When I have to be official, I switch to a serif like Garamond or Palatino. I suppose I could use Times, but… just because I *can* do something doesn’t mean I *should.* .
April 2, 2013 — 3:20 AM
Robin Karlsson (@Robin_Karlsson) says:
There’s new version of Courier out called Courier Prime, created by writer John August, which is remarkable in how it really is noticeably better than the normal Courier. It’s also free! http://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/
April 2, 2013 — 5:05 AM
David says:
I’ve been using that old Mac stand-by, Georgia, when I’m writing in Byword (my Markdown editor of choice). Just makes me feel that it’s real, like the page of a book.
But I rather like Alegreya, one of the free Google web fonts, for a lot of purposes. There’s a whole family of regular, bold, black, italic, bold italic, etc. The italic is particularly nice.
April 2, 2013 — 7:31 AM
danielrdavis says:
Wanna spend stupid amounts of time looking at fonts? My go-to for fonts. http://www.1001freefonts.com/
Far as favorites, I tend to use plain ol’ Times or Courier for the writing. And I just kind of like the look of Times. Some of the ones I just plain like are Boister Black, Baroque Antique Script, Copperplate Gothic. Piracy, Postcrypt, and Firestarter are just kinda fun, as are Star Jedi and Runic. I tend to use those for RPG writing/prep. And I use Isle of Misfit Toys and Kingthings Christmas for Christmas gift tags. I used to have craploads of fonts before my old PC took a shit.
April 2, 2013 — 8:20 AM
swordsoftheancients says:
I’m a big fan of Cambria and Calibri. That way I have a serif and sans serif font at the ready.
April 2, 2013 — 6:16 PM
London Crockett says:
Adobe Jenson Pro is text. There are other fine typefaces that suit other needs, but when a whole bunch of words needs to hang out in little clusters and those clusters get lonely unless they’ve got several thousand others, Jenson makes them sing in tune, dresses them up in their Apollo Theater best and sends them out to perform. Yes, you must pay, but what an investment.
For more decorative needs, there are many, but lately, I’ve been giving Reina 36 Pro a lot of love. It’s ridiculously cheap for all it does.
April 3, 2013 — 1:08 AM
Mr Stonebender says:
I trust you’re familiar with Courier Prime? Because I’m in fucking love with it. For regular prose stuff, I’m a fan of Garamond, which you probably already know and have an opinion of. There is one called “Quicksand” that you can get–I believe–from dafont.com, which is a nice Title/Header face that’s done me some good over time.
April 3, 2013 — 3:23 PM
Breanna LaRow (@brelarow) says:
Font Co-op http://losttype.com/ (You pay what you want.) and Font Squirrel http://www.fontsquirrel.com/ are my favorite places to pick up free fonts.
April 8, 2013 — 5:15 PM
furrama says:
Boris Black Bloxx is a favorite of mine. And free.
April 17, 2013 — 3:21 AM