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Whats Your Go To Font
- Thread starter No Lemon
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Pat Whatley
New Member
Currently:
Tide Sans
Tungsten
Geoslab
Museo
Best design advice I ever got was to figure out what your ten "go to" fonts are and then delete them from your computer. It forces you to actually think about the font you're using and gets you away from turning out cookie cutter stuff.
Tide Sans
Tungsten
Geoslab
Museo
Best design advice I ever got was to figure out what your ten "go to" fonts are and then delete them from your computer. It forces you to actually think about the font you're using and gets you away from turning out cookie cutter stuff.
Texas_Signmaker
Very Active Signmaker
Roboto
oldgoatroper
Roper of Goats. Old ones.
parking signs and stuff -- Myriad -- a good range of weights and widths and is a nice fresh change from Arial/Helv.
Warning/safety signs - HighwayGothic/BlueHighway/RoadGeek. -- "the most readable fonts ever designed" (I know, some will mention Clearview, but I think Clearview is not as readable and is, in fact, just a money-extraction device)
I like to use Cheltenham, but not necessarily for everytime a serif is needed or wanted.
City is another font I find I'll use when I think I can get away with it -- a good alternate slab serif
I will use HotShot for an ad script quite often
and for quick formal script needs, the Shelley group is good to go ( Allegro, Andante, Volante)
If I'm designing a logo or something -- I have no favourites -- I use what I can find that I think fits the bill.
Warning/safety signs - HighwayGothic/BlueHighway/RoadGeek. -- "the most readable fonts ever designed" (I know, some will mention Clearview, but I think Clearview is not as readable and is, in fact, just a money-extraction device)
I like to use Cheltenham, but not necessarily for everytime a serif is needed or wanted.
City is another font I find I'll use when I think I can get away with it -- a good alternate slab serif
I will use HotShot for an ad script quite often
and for quick formal script needs, the Shelley group is good to go ( Allegro, Andante, Volante)
If I'm designing a logo or something -- I have no favourites -- I use what I can find that I think fits the bill.
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Johnny Best
Active Member
Bliss
SignosaurusRex
Active Member
"Thou shalt not limit thyself ...to do so, ye becometh stagnant as Swamp Scum."
oldgoatroper
Roper of Goats. Old ones.
Oh, were it to be....
On the other hand, when a cute, but scatter-brained babe comes in and urgently explains that she needs invites made for her future sister-in-law's shower in a "nice script" --- and oh, can you do them by 3:00? -- I already know the font is going to be Shelley.
This is what go-to fonts are for, in my view.
But when there is more time.....
SignosaurusRex
Active Member
oldgoatroper
Roper of Goats. Old ones.
Johnny Best
Active Member
One of the things that Fontgods feel as an abomination to them is "A false witness that speaketh lies"
C
ColoPrinthead
Guest
I was reading the wiki on Clearview, it is interesting to me how it was claimed to be effective and then the study saying so was apparently questionable. I find it on street signs in town every now and then and get a nice laugh.
oldgoatroper
Roper of Goats. Old ones.
Your comment prompted me to visit Mrs. Google and she showed me this: Why Every Highway Sign in America Has to Change (Again) Ha!
peavey123
New Member
Thanks Pat, Been looking for something like Tungsten for a while.
For anyone getting defensive about having some go-to fonts. Don't be.
Johnny Best
Active Member
another article about the fed killing Clearview:Your comment prompted me to visit Mrs. Google and she showed me this: Why Every Highway Sign in America Has to Change (Again) Ha!
The feds are killing off Clearview, the new highway sign font