Top 5

Helvetica/Arial (pretty close to being the same thing!)
Verdana
Copperplate Bold
Century Gothic Series
Corentle

 

• Serpentine Sans Family (ITC)
• Utopia Family (Adobe)
• Palatino Family (Linotype)
• Frutiger Family (Linotype)
• Signpainter Script (House Industries)

In fairness however, I use hundreds of others and try to use one or two fonts or family of fonts I do not use normally for each customer.

 

I don't have a top 5 USED..... Try to mix it up as much as I can, but favorites are

FUTURA family
dear joe
blazing
microgamma
armour piercing

 

Melior
Futura family
Optima family
Bookman family
… and various casual scripts

 

Palatino
Franklin Gothic
Myriad
Goudy Old Style
(I do alot of magazine work)

Always look to my A&S fonts first for the fun stuff.

 

Chesham Sans by Arthur Vanson
American Sans by Arthur Vanson
Big Red (Stevens) Sign DNA
Antique Olive Nord
And my new fave from A&S, Valentino!!!

(It's too hard to list just 5)
What about a list of fonts we HATE?

Papyrus
Brush Script
Revue
Comic Sans
White Regular
Murray Hill Bold

And a wish list?
House Industries~LHF~A&S~Sign DNA...one of each please!
Love....Jill

 

3 from the A & S collection
Rhino
Cricket
Blaze

Goudy Old Style
Aldine

 

Antique Olive Nord
Copperplate
Floran
Storybook
Magic

 

arial
arial narrow
arial black
times new roman
comic sans

not joking

 

Anything from SignFonts.com
Love them all!!!!

 

1) Myriad
2) A&S Speedway
3) Helvecita
4) Sign DNA Smoothy
5) LHF Sofia Script


A&S Valintino is moving up my list Quickly!

 

I'm SUCH a font whore, I have about 85,000 of them, granted, aside from the LHF fonts I have, and a few others 84,900 of them SUCK.

I use the right fonts for the right job, the client, the business, and the area sometimes dictates the correct fonts to use.

The typefaces have to give a feeling that they belong. sub text should not overwhlem the main copy, etc.

Some of my favorites are:

•Antique Olive Nord
•Caslon
•Sofia script
•Samster Script

More of course!

 

Once I got over Snapper Script from SignFonts.com I found Roadhouse and like it a lot.

 

...

Big Red (signdna)
Xtreme Script (A&S)
Tideway (LHF)
Meta Black
Sign Gothic (A&S)

 

I'm a bit partial to Neutraface and House Brush