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lex says:

06:57am | 15/12/09

There’s a pizza and beer place in Braddon in Canberra, which I am reluctant to go to because of the font it uses in its signage. It’s bulbous and clunky and unforgiveable anywhere but grade three school assignments.

Liz says:

08:04am | 15/12/09

Oh love those fonts!! All of them, or nearly all of them but especially NOT Helvetica which is messy,untidy , ill-formed and gives the impression of being used by people who don’t use spell-check.

Budz says:

08:12am | 15/12/09

Ban Comic Sans? That’s my favourite font! Damn them.

Adam says:

08:45am | 15/12/09

We need a sarcasm font!

Ben says:

09:13am | 15/12/09

hahahhahah, I love cambria too!

Justin says:

09:27am | 15/12/09

Great selection here but my personal favourite is Calibri. Relatively new to Windows, it somehow comes across as both futuristic and subtle. Not boring like Times New Roman or Arial, and yet not pretentious like Lucida Calligraphy. I tried Calibri once and haven’t gone back.

Jack says:

09:45am | 15/12/09

Lex: you might even say that the typeface is a comple Debacle.

bp says:

10:58am | 15/12/09

You seriously need to turn cleartype on!

Lucy says:

11:08am | 15/12/09

I got criticised the other day for using Times New Roman because apparently it shows I have ‘no imagination’, and I’m ‘lazy’ because it’s the Microsoft Word default.

BW says:

11:18am | 15/12/09

i’m actually quite sick of governments using times new roman font. it’s become far too sanitized - like a hospital. for a while, i also thought arial font was ‘cheap’.

ollie says:

11:47am | 15/12/09

Check out ecofont (http://www.ecofont.eu/ecofont_en.html) uses 20% less ink when printed so you can even be sanctimonious on your font choice

Mr Subramanian says:

12:21pm | 15/12/09

My wife mocked me once because I pointed out some of the usages of Matura MT Script Capitals, which seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur now. Algerian still pops up here and there, though. I love all things fonts, but one has to weight the individuality of a font with its pervasiveness - once upon a time, Times New Roman, Arial and (God forbid!) Courier were the really only ones you could guarantee would be on every recipient’s computer. Nowadays, Windows seems to send fonts around willy nilly *sigh*. I’ve gone Verdana in navy myself, although it’s tempting to change. But your font tends to become a part of what you do, and changing it seems more radical than changing your hairstyle…

stephen says:

12:45pm | 15/12/09

Write instead. It’s an act of drawing, which may make you use your right-side brain, which may make you ‘arty’ , which should make you ‘progressive’.

Jack from Perth says:

02:50pm | 15/12/09

I think this should have been written in Wingdings

The Emancipation says:

03:56pm | 15/12/09

My favourite font used to be Tahoma, but since the change to the recent edition of Microsoft Word, I use Calibri.  Calibri feels like a good blend of Arial and Tahoma - clear and concise but well spaced and not too sharp.

I feel like I’m speaking about wine rather than fonts!

mags says:

05:13pm | 15/12/09

I am all aboard the Verdana train.

It’s like…contemporary but totally practical and kind of what the cool kids use.

I’m pretty sure in one of my high school classes we had a whole conversation on fonts and we all agreed - verdana was a pretty sweet font.

TONY says:

12:54am | 16/12/09

Look at all those comments - none of you are any better than Comic Sans… You’re all on the Microsoft gravy train! Helevtica, Garmond, Lucida Sans, Avant Garde, DIN - much more creative fonts.

George says:

05:04am | 16/12/09

I always loved Gill Sans—at least until I found out about Mr. Gill and his dog, which I have to admit gave me reservations.  I still like the font, though.