Your Top-Ten Fonts?...

[Ken]

Mr. Adams spurred me on to ask this..blame him...

"Thanks for the link. No matter how many fonts I install I always end up using my top 10 favorites....." MLAdams.

My choices:
Arial Black
Arial Black italics
Arial
Arial rounded
Cooper black
Monotype Corsiva
House Slant (like Dom casual)
Times New Roman ( but dont like weeding the serifs)
Babylon5 (good for race cars)
Blacksmith
Poor Richard
Cotillion (is nice for a script font)
SO..
what'ya got?
Cheers!
Ken

 

[Ken]

bump...

 

[weaselboogie]

Futura Family
Bank Gothic (there's a place and a time)
Sophia Script
Good Dog
arial black
GeoSlab
Optima
Tahoma
Incised

Agreed, Always go back to the basics.

 

[Geary]

Impact
Helvetica or "Nimbus" (fake Helv. from my Canvas program)
Brush Art
Edwardian (w/Vivaldi lower case when it works)
Bickley
Olive Nord Extra Black
Palatino
Optima
Friz Quadrata
Garamond

 

[Mason]

Universe Ultra Ext
Eurostyle ext
Boston Truckstyle
Convecta
Compacta Blk
Badhouse Bold
Sarah Script
Ballpark Script
CC Spills
Classical(family)

 

[Pat Whatley]

Futura Extra Black
Futura Medium Bold
Helvetica
Class Garamond
House-A-Rama Kingpin
Corintha
Aachen
Cheltenham
Sarah Script
Brody

 

[Jillbeans]

Chesham Sans
American Sans
Valentino (hahaha)
Antique Olive Nord
Big Red
Stephens Percepta
Bounce Script
Tideway
Signpainter's Devinne
Justice System

 

[k.a.s.]

Benguiat (I have to stop myself or I'd use this on everything)
Humanist
Promontory
Roadhouse
Roadhouse Italic
Placard Condensed
Runic Condensed
Deco Roman
Marquee
Blaze

 

[Ken]

bump

 

[drakesis]

Comic Sans or Brush Script exclusively, it's the only way to go baby!

lol, no thats only a joke,

Helvetica
Futura
Eurostyle
Garamond
Friz Quadrata
Edwardian & Vivaldi
Arial
Babylon5
Humanist

 

[GregT]

Arial Black
Arial (bold)
Beetle
Andy
Cooper black
Monotype Corsiva
Dom casual
Friz Quadrata
Times New Roman
Palatino
Optima

 

[Ken]

Ok..we're beginning to see some commonality here. It's not that we all want to use the same fonts. God forbid, every sign would look the same.
Hey Jill..I want to check out your fonts! No, what I mean is..I may have seen them here or there..but not familiar with your choices posted here.
I expect that these are fonts obtained from legitimate font foundries and that you paid a good buck for them.
Of the ones I posted at the start here, they either came within Corel, Illustrator or windows, the rest were free fonts from the net.
Cheers!
Ken

 

[OldPaint]

ARIAL BLACK most crap signs. ARUA, ADMIN DISPLAY, FF ZOO(fonts that came with VMPRO DEMO, FF)FF SUPER INCICED, i got SIGN DNA FONTS, for all those brush types.
i got 700 loaded on the hard drive. i also have the old ABODE FONT PHOLIO.......still like those adobe type fonts.

 

[Jillbeans]

Justice System came with Windows
Big Red is a Sign DNA
Antique Olive Nord is Gerber (also the same as FF Inceed)
Signpainter's Devinne is an Atkinson from The Fontry
Valentino is from Signfonts
Tideway, Chesham, American Sans, and Stephens are all LHF by Arthur Vanson
Bounce is also LHF by Chuck Borges
Love....Jill
(yesterday I think I deleted 100 junk fonts while my plotter was plotting)

 

[mladams7259]

Benguiat - Im with k.a.s on this one.
Futura
Arial
Helvetica.
AS Roadhouse
AS Marquee - Probly my favorite.
Optima
AS Blaze
AS-cant remember the name but its a script.

There are a couple more but Im not at the office and I cant remember them off the top of my head. NO SLEEP!!!

 

[asignstop]

BOUDLER x 10

dunno why but love this font - Hey if any of the sign “PHds” types could type out there 10 favs in font (eg as a pic) I would love to see that.. .time permitting,
Thanks, Ali

 

[toucan_graphics]

WHich top ten fonts?

THe top ten fonts I like to use? Or the top ten fonts the customers choose?

I have over 6000 fonts but offer a smaller variety of about 50 for customers to choose from. From there if they don't like any listed, I will draft up samples of what they want with various font choices based on their input.

Here are the top ten that the customers seem to pick the most often.

2 years ago Dom Casual and Brush Script would have been on here but I got tired of seeing them so I removed them from the font choices. now if a customer wants either of those they must request it specifically.

 

[animenick65]

These are mine!

 

[Gino]

These are some of mine.

This does not however, represent the others in the shop that help design.

 

[Imminent Death]

Century Gothic
Swiss 911
Rick Griffith
Optima
Trebuchet
ArnoldBoeD
Rutiana
Futura
Dark Crystal
Arial