# What are your favorite fonts?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 12, 2002, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583 "2002-07-12T07:32:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/1 "2002-07-12T07:32:48Z")
Here are some of mine:
**Text:**
Deutsch Gothic
Fitzgerald
Harrington
Samarkan Oblique
**Handwriting:**
Angelica
Bud Hand
Maidstone
Psycho Poetry
**Dingbats:**
Celtic Borders & Celtic Frames
Fleurons
Orient Patterns
Orna1,2,3 and 4
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/2 "2002-07-12T07:52:56Z")
It sounds weird, but I really like the Arial/Helvetica font family.
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### Author:  [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/3 "2002-07-12T07:59:22Z")
**Sans-serif** :
Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Trebuchet MS, Adobe Barmeno, Interface DaMa, Lucida Grande
**Serif** :
Calisto MT
**Monospaced** :
Letter Gothic, OCR A Extended
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### Author:  [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/4 "2002-07-12T08:15:27Z")
Courier, always courier.
I like it when everythings squared away. Yes sir, squared away.
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### Author:  [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/5 "2002-07-12T09:25:40Z")
I’m an Arial man - 11 (cpi?), 1.5 spaced, full justification. Not very flashy, but what do you expect from a civil servant.
We used Camelot or some such on our wedding invitations.
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/6 "2002-07-12T09:40:33Z")
Courier, Monofonto, Franklin Gothic Book, Glass Gauge, Westminster, and Eurostile.
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### Author:  [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/7 "2002-07-12T09:57:02Z")
Comic sans 11pt Bold Dark Green for everything but “official type stuff”. For “official type stuff”, I use whatever Word defaults to which seems to be Times New Roman 10pt (at least my work’s copy of Word 97 does). Thank God I dont do much “official type stuff”.
dead0man
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### Author:  [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/8 "2002-07-12T10:08:33Z")
Matisse & EwieD
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### Author:  [@Kid\_Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_Gilligan)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/9 "2002-07-12T10:12:39Z")
Georgia
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/10 "2002-07-12T11:26:52Z")
Verdana (which is what the SDMB uses, I believe)
Garamond Narrow (Apple’s corporate font 😉 )
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/11 "2002-07-12T11:38:46Z")
Err… I didn’t mean what you use for, say, viewing web pages. I meant what fonts do you _like_ best. Like… think they are cool or whatever.
I made a buncha thumbnails of my various fonts…
[Font Examples](http://gallery.opalcat.com/index.cgi?mode=album&album=/Miscellaneous/Font%20Examples)
Note: the thumbnails on the page are pretty much the full size of the images, so just go through page by page if you want to see them, you don’t actually need to click on any actual thumbnail.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/12 "2002-07-12T11:51:27Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by OpalCat \*
> **Err… I didn’t mean what you use for, say, viewing web pages. I meant what fonts do you _like_ best. Like… think they are cool or whatever.**
Mmmm, it’s still Arial/Helvetica all the way for me, I’m afraid; I like the clean uncomplicated look - less is more.
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### Author:  [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/13 "2002-07-12T12:44:31Z")
I meant what I said. I dislike all other fonts. Courier appeals to me greatly. Especially when I type a lot and everything is in neat little columns. It’s so neat and organized.
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/14 "2002-07-12T13:06:20Z")
Microgramma Bold. It makes a statement.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/15 "2002-07-12T13:23:25Z")
I had to laugh when I heard about a font called [KnobCheese](http://www.identifont.com/samples/fontfont/Knobcheese.gif) (was that here or on another board?)- it’s interesting, but not my cup of tea though.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/16 "2002-07-12T14:02:47Z")
Well I do a lot of graphics… I don’t use those fonts for text applications, I use them for things like this:
[tree hugger](http://gallery.opalcat.com/albums/Art/ShirtDesigns/treehugger%2dtext.jpg) which you have to admit would just not be the same in Arial or Courier.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/17 "2002-07-12T14:06:02Z")
Here is something I did using a dingbat font… for the stuff on the silver part: [mirror](http://gallery.opalcat.com/image%2dcache/Art/Graphics%20Challenges/60/opalcat60%2d2%5fdisp512.jpg) (the starting image was [this](http://gallery.opalcat.com/albums/Art/Graphics%20Challenges/60/challenge60.gif))
Fonts are handy! Fonts are fun! I wouldn’t ever use anything really weird in a text document though… that would be annoying.
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### Author:  [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/18 "2002-07-12T14:20:42Z")
Classic serif: Garamond, Century Schoolbook
Sans serif: Tahoma, Futura (Tahoma’s great in small point sizes. Futura looks good in bold in large sizes)
Fancy: Bard, Viner Hand.
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### Author:  [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/19 "2002-07-12T15:13:59Z")
Garamond, Georgia, and Morpheus.
I like my fonts to look clean and not be wholly standard and bland like Times Roman.
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### Author:  [@p\_cific\_812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/p_cific_812)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-fonts/118583/20 "2002-07-12T15:31:15Z")
I am an Arial guy all the way. Serifs make my eyes twitch.
😃
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