List your favorite fonts and why!

[Soquili]

Larry that is also one of my favorite fonts. It is based on the hand lettered opening titles for the movie "It's a Wonderful Life".
http://www.ufonts.com/fonts/christmas-card.html

[wizard509]

Thanks for that info Bill. I just looked that up and that font looks the same or at least very close to the hand lettering in that opening.

[Myrtonos]

No one has yet mentioned any Blackletter fonts. Two notable Blackletter fonts and Schwabacher and Fraktur. By the way, there are two Cyrillic fonts Moyenage and Blonde Fraktur, that include Cyrillic as well as Roman characters.

[Gare]

Hi and welcome to TalkGraphics, Myrtonos—

No one has mentioned Blackletter fonts perhaps because no one has a favorite, and this is the thread for posting favorite fonts and adding an explanation. Would you like to educate us here and tell us why you like these two typefaces?

Blackletter is exceptionally formal—weddings, official documents—and metal bands (!).

Um, Myrtonos, you've just joined as a member of TalkGraphics, and I suspect you didn't completely read the member policies about posting links with your first post.

It's bad form; it usually looks as though someone joined just to advertise and divert traffic from tg, so if you want to show a font sample, as a new member post a bitmap image, okay? This will keep other Moderators from criticizing you.

That said, Moyenage is a nice example of how someone is reworking the Blackletter letterform into something much more legible than, say, 300 years ago.

My Best,

Gary

[Myrtonos]

No one has mentioned Blackletter fonts perhaps because no one has a favorite, and this is the thread for posting favorite fonts and adding an explanation. Would you like to educate us here and tell us why you like these two typefaces?

Blackletter is exceptionally formal—weddings, official documents—and metal bands (!).

In the English speaking world, Blackletter is considered especially formal, no not much in German speaking countries, for they used it extensively before the Hitler era.

Um, Myrtonos, you've just joined as a member of TalkGraphics, and I suspect you didn't completely read the member policies about posting links with your first post.

It's bad form; it usually looks as though someone joined just to advertise and divert traffic from tg, so if you want to show a font sample, as a new member post a bitmap image, okay? This will keep other Moderators from criticizing you.

I don't know how to post bitmap, and that policy has not applied on any other forums on which I have posted.

That said, Moyenage is a nice example of how someone is reworking the Blackletter letterform into something much more legible than, say, 300 years ago.[/QUOTE]

I find all Blackletter fonts quite easy to read.

A sample of text taken from my previous post due to a glitch:
Jonothan Barnbrook has no plans to add Cyrillic characters to his "Bastard" blackletter, as adding new characters would be a considerable piece of work and his font is not a big seller. But I wonder whether it would get more attention of he added Cyrillic characters.

[stayfocused]

um why hello there, i think i am falling for you : http://www.typographyserved.com/gall...isplay/3303986

[Barbara B]

Welcome to the Fonts & Typography forum stayfocused, we hope you'll stick around and talk fonts with us and maybe even help us build one or two.

I do have to mention that we normally don't allow new members to post links, but I'll make an exception this time, your post was on topic, isn't spammy and it is a lovely font you like.