Fonts
At lunch the other day, a colleague said that my documents all look consistent. “They all look the same, they have a personal stamp… same typeface, etc.” I began to think about fonts. Well, those who know me well know that I’m always thinking about fonts. Some favorites of mine I do use often, in hindsight, and while they aren’t any of fanciful “new kids on the block,” they are all old favorites:
I use Myriad and Union a lot in documents I produce at work. Union is nice and chunky, and appears “large” even at smaller type sizes. Centaur is difficult to read on screen, but when magnified, is quite arresting. Pontifex makes me think of the 80s, I hope it someday soon comes back into “style.” Aldus is the thinner, taller, more delicate and refined cousin to Zapf’s Palatino, a font that unfortunately has been overused having been found on millions of PCs.
I used the “middleschrift” variant of DIN in lowercase in 2000 for my website, biberfan.com. It was originally designed for German highway/traffic signs.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:53 am
I have never thought much about fonts… kind of take-them-for-granted attitude…. like, responding to this blog… what font am I using? I don’t know and frankly, I don’t care as long as you can read it. Thanks for the insight and causing me to think about the fonts in my life.