What's your favourite font?

Adnams Drinker · 11 Sep 2011 at 19:03

In print, Franklin Gothic or the old classic Helvetica, purely because there's so many weights of it. Cannot stand Times - I was trained as a typesetter 20-odd years ago and saw it day-in, day-out and ended up hating it. Drove me up the wall in the early days of the web as Times was used a hell of a lot - personally I think it looks particularly grotty on-screen and not anti-aliased.

On the web, Verdana or Tahoma can't be beaten, especially for body copy. Georgia is a nice serif font for web use - unusual to see a web font with old-skool non-lining figures. We're starting to use more custom fonts on our sites at work nowadays - they can be bought quite cheaply, especially in the context of the overall price for the site.

Lynx · 11 Sep 2011 at 20:06

I like Calibri, and a similar font named "Technical" that somehow made it on my first PC and I've kept it ever since.

Although now I don't have any choice when writing weekly reports at work, they all have to be Arial or Times New Roman depending on the template

gillywibble · 12 Sep 2011 at 13:16

Disco Boy said:
Arial, job done.

The Dread Pirate · 12 Sep 2011 at 13:19

pfft if your that sad that you have to make a choice I pity you... whats wrong with the general defaults of Ariel & Times New Roman?

Sp00n · 12 Sep 2011 at 13:21

Right now I'm loving Lobster, purely because it's such a nice font considering it's license free:

In fact, I'm quite fond of most of impallari's work.

Craig R · 12 Sep 2011 at 13:25

Akkurat and Ronnia.

Reaper 392 · 12 Sep 2011 at 13:26

surprised no-one has said webdings

gee3000 · 12 Sep 2011 at 20:29

Capn' $qu!ff said:
pfft if your that sad that you have to make a choice I pity you... whats wrong with the general defaults of Ariel & Times New Roman?

About as much as is wrong with the choice of typeface in your signature. Eras is one of the most overused noobie fonts available.