List your favorite fonts and why!

[mwenz]

Hi Frances.

I leave a couple always installed and few sitting in a folder just in case. I like Nevison Casual the most and have found use for Holiday Springs a few times.

Nevison I like simply because it is similar to notes I read in the margins of a book we got from my wife's grandfather (not his writing however). There is similarities in mainly the lower case 'o' and the loop in the 'k'.



Holiday Springs I like simply because of its playful look.




Take care, Mike

[mwenz]

Ok. How about script fonts?

My favorite is Snell Roundhand. I think it is an elegant script. Now, Gary will likely know the designer and I fear I am painting a theme here...



Take care, Mike

[angelize]

One of my favourite script fonts is BlackJack I have found a few different uses for it. I'll bet Gary probably knows another name for this one too

[Gare]

No, that's actually BlackJack, the proper name, and I bought it on sale along with one of Nick Curtis' fonts about two years ago.

My Best,

Gary

[Gare]

Ok. How about script fonts?

My favorite is Snell Roundhand. I think it is an elegant script. Now, Gary will likely know the designer ...

Yep, I'd know Matthew Carter's work a mile and 20 picas away, Mike.



Hint: if you're remotely curious about a font's creator, do a search with something like "Who designed Snell Roundhand". It was the third Google hit, and from there, you can learn about the creator on wikipedia.

And then done $5 a year to wikipedia because these people continue to tank as a volunteer organization, and they're easily as useful as PBS.

—g

[wizard509]

For a Christmas I have always liked Christmas Card font. To me it just has a Christmas look. I couldn't find out much about it other than it is offered by Harold's Fonts, and available from dafont.com, Font Squirrel also has at least one of his fonts. It is a display kind of a font and has a calligraphic old world look about it. http://www.dafont.com/christmas-card.font

[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