Of all the fonts that are out there, and of those we've seen, on a regular basis or just occasionally, some are considered among our favorites. What are your favorite fonts that you like to see or use? You can categorize by serif, sans-serif, handwriting/script, and monospace. My favorite fonts are: Serif: Souvenir (Yes, I know Frank Romano many years ago described it as a "font fatale" and reminded readers that "friends don't let friends set Souvenir", but I love the design of it and how relaxed and welcoming it appears. I know this font was used almost everywhere in the 1980s and early 1990s.) Bookman Old Style (Always thought this one fit well in formal documents, considering it was regularly used on letters by my middle school principal.) Sans Serif: Helvetica (not Arial): Definitely a serious font to use, and I consider it to be much more professional than Arial. Script: Segoe Script: Love how casual this font looks. Needless to say, though, I'm not a fan of most script fonts. Monospace: Prestige Elite: I like this one better than Courier (New). While both Prestige and Courier were introduced by IBM for their typewriters in the 1950s, Courier is so widely used today, while Prestige has all but fallen into disuse. Monospace:
As an English major I'm a Times New Roman / Calibri fan, they have a nice clean style that is easy to read, though I will admit that I have a soft spot for Wingdings (though I think there were a couple and I don't remember which) since I leanred to write it as a code at one point
I went through the early phase of using Helvetica instead of Arial, but eventually I just felt like it was too overused in general, even though it is quite nice. I then went into using Raleway, and still like to if it's an online font since it's easily available in various weights on google fonts. However, I find Raleway doesn't look as good in print so I then arrived at using Open Sans which is what I use now, it's got the full range of weights and looks really nice in thin for body text. I use 10pt leading and 10pt kerning as a default for most situations unless the font was already pretty tight or the space allows for more space creatively. I am realllyyy fond of thin font weight most of all, and semi bold for something a little less heavy than bold. As for decorative fonts, I really like a few script/handwritten style ones since I struggle to do a nice signature and therefore I'm constantly trying out new ones on my art. I have yet to settle on one since I think my current art signature name is not very good and doesn't help the final look. KG decorative fonts are usually really nice.
I mentioned this somewhat in the last topic about fonts, but my favourite fonts to use are Arial Narrow and Verdana - they're pretty clean and serve their intended purpose well. I used to use Times New Roman for everything since that was the default font, but now I will never use it unless I absolutely have to - it, and all other serif fonts, are now an eyesore to me. Calibri is okay but it's too odd of a size (usually too small) and can render as being a little spaced out. As for wanting to try new fonts, I don't see the purpose in such, because if I'm using fonts for personal purposes that I'm already satisfied with, why branch out into more? But in the end I use Notepad for most of my note-taking, and Notepad has only one font. I only use Word for really long projects, and I don't really have any of those going on right now.
Any font that isn't serif is good to me lol I just don't like serif fonts, the exception sometimes is georgia.
Times new roman all the way for me, I just like the way it looks. Calibri works too, but I usually change whatever I'm making to Times new roman.
I actually prefer calibri. The style is nice and readable something I had trouble with in the past with Times New Roman. I tend to write my papers in Calibri and only when I am finished, change it to Times New Roman, because that is mandatory.
