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I can't be the only one nerdy enough to have a favourite font, so let's all share what our favourite fonts are.

My personal favourite is Century Gothic, though I'll go with Tahoma in a pinch.

Courier, bitches.

I've always like palatino although this seems a little different. ("Palatino Linotype")

Garamond, Calisto MT, and Book Antiqua

Franklin Gothic Medium.


Although I also like papyrus, which sadly NS does not have.

My favourite NS font is Georgia.

Book Antiqua :)

My favourite NS font is Georgia.

I second this.

Book Antiqua is nice. I used to like Comic Sans but now I've decided it sucks.

You can change fonts here?!


Oh, that is hot!

Lots of serif people here--I applaud that. ;)

Lots of serif people here--I applaud that. ;)
Serifs are somewhat hideous.


(I am so amused by my newfound ability to change my font... eee...)

Times New Roman, of course.

Why limit yourself to loving one font? Embrace all true fonts!

Times New Roman, of course.

Ill, boring.

:p

Serifs are somewhat hideous.


(I am so amused by my newfound ability to change my font... eee...)

I like the classic look of it. Different strokes.

Why limit yourself to loving one font? Embrace all true fonts!

That is also an option.

Why limit yourself to loving one font? Embrace all true fonts!

Consistancy is important!

Ill, boring.

What can I say? I am a boring person. :)

Of the fonts we are allowed to see on Jolt, I like Book Antiqua a whole lot. And Courier New, while slightly old-school and reminiscent of long hours sitting in front of a screen typing command prompts -- well, ok, maybe not hours -- is still good.

Among fonts that won't display on everyone's computers, I like Eurostile, Old English MT, Lucida Grande, and a lot of the symbol fonts. (Not all of these will display on your computers, unless you have them installed.)

I use Arial often, as well as Times New Roman, Impact, and for titles, Algerian (No option for that font here, though)

For a "regular" font, I like Jokerman. I'm disapointed that we don't have Wingdings on Jolt, 'cause I wanted to post the holy om in another thread :)

Arial, Old English, Courier, OCR Extended, Papyrus, and Symbol.

DejaVu Sans

I never really take the time to alter them whatever i am doing, stock and standard for me.

Why limit yourself to loving one font? Embrace all true fonts!
Yeah, but it makes it really easy to pick your assignment out of a pile of them when you're the only one who always types it up in a particular font.

Plus, have you seen the question marks in century gothic? They're fucking sexy

Plus, have you seen the question marks in century gothic? They're fucking sexy

True, but the exclemation points have to be gay.

Palatino Linotype

Times New Roman for hard copy all the way. For screen fonts I really have no preference.

Book Antiqua, on this. I'm also rather fond of Ransom-Note fonts.

I'm more of a sans serif kinda guy myself. However, I do admire the following: Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet, Gill Sans, Futura, Square 721, Trajan Pro, and any sort of Pixel Font.

I've never bothered to investigate them.

I like trebuchet, just for its name.

I always used to use High Tower Text (http://www.greendolphinpress.com/images/contact-doves.gif) for my history essays, but now I just use Times New Roman.

The Spiderman font!

Honestly though, I'm more of a FixedSys kind of guy.

The default font, LaTeX uses...

and anything which can display all Unicode characters.

No

Verdana! Probably 99% of what I type, I type in Verdana.

But if I want to put a fun "mood" to something, I'll use Comic Sans

And I like Felix Titling for some banners and labels. (Jolt doesn't have that one.)

Dauphin
Garamond
Eras
and others i can't recall the names of right now


i'm a graphic designer though, so i'm allowed to have a favourite font ;) :D
(ps: this thread wins the most geeky thread i've yet seen on NS award :p)

(ps: this thread wins the most geeky thread i've yet seen on NS award :p)

What, seriously?

DejaVu Sans
:p


Lucida Sans Unicode - I use this for mixed CD covers.

Comic Sans MS - I just like it.

And my favourite, though hardly ever usable:
http://www.identifont.com/samples/microsoft/Desdemona.gif
Desdemona, the Art Déco one.
The name sign on my front door is made with Desdemona. :)

:p


Lucida Sans Unicode - I use this for mixed CD covers.

Comic Sans MS - I just like it.

And my favourite, though hardly ever usable:
http://www.identifont.com/samples/microsoft/Desdemona.gif
Desdemona, the Art Déco one.
The name sign on my front door is made with Desdemona. :)

That one's pretty cool. I would have said it was Art Nouveau style though. Maybe I'm getting them confused.

Dragonwick has always had a warm spot with me

That one's pretty cool. I would have said it was Art Nouveau style though. Maybe I'm getting them confused.
Hahaha, no, you're probably not.

You're killing me, though, because in German it's always the distinction between Jugendstil (which, unsurprisingly, turns out to be Art Nouveau in English :rolleyes:) and Art Déco that slays me. I never get it right (except accidentally) and I don't even actually see it.
Not that I actually ever bothered to study up on it or anything. But still. <.<

And here I thought I could get away with it on NS in a thread about fonts.

Curses, foiled again! :p

Hahaha, no, you're probably not.

You're killing me, though, because in German it's always the distinction between Jugendstil (which, unsurprisingly, turns out to be Art Nouveau in English :rolleyes:) and Art Déco that slays me. I never get it right (except accidentally) and I don't even actually see it.
Not that I actually ever bothered to study up on it or anything. But still. <.<

And here I thought I could get away with it on NS in a thread about fonts.

Curses, foiled again! :p

Pendantry is my raison d'etre. :p

This is my favourite font. I used this font and colour for my first few posts on NSG, but then found that everyone else are boring LOSERS using the standard font, making me look weird, so, being a good Rousseauist, I conceded to the General Will:p

This is my favourite font. I used this font and colour for my first few posts on NSG, but then found that everyone else are boring LOSERS using the standard font, making me look weird, so, being a good Rousseauist, I conceded to the General Will:p
Good thing, too. *gets brain seizure* ;)

Though I have to say - now that I saw that the color is called "Dark Orchid", it does have a certain allure. :p

I do not have a favourite Font

(ps: this thread wins the most geeky thread i've yet seen on NS award :p)

I think that is a challenge to me :)

Good thing, too. *gets brain seizure* ;)

Though I have to say - now that I saw that the color is called "Dark Orchid", it does have a certain allure. :p

It most certainly does. I might start using it again. Looks even better in Italics.

It most certainly does. I might start using it again. Looks even better in Italics.
Nooooooooooooooooo, what have I done?! >.<

It most certainly does. I might start using it again. Looks even better in Italics.

don't u even thinkaboutit!

Nooooooooooooooooo, what have I done?! >.<

Created....a monster! Bwahahaha!

Anything clear and easy to read -- Times New Roman and Arial being chief among them.

Those ridiculous "handwritten fonts" or "Old English" fonts are about the worst -- especially since my students despite my telling them otherwise seem to think them appropriate for research papers.

Anything clear and easy to read -- Times New Roman and Arial being chief among them.

Those ridiculous "handwritten fonts" or "Old English" fonts are about the worst -- especially since my students despite my telling them otherwise seem to think them appropriate for research papers.

But FixedSys is cool, right? It's all...uniform and stuff.

Or maybe Arial Narrow?

Sans Serif font: Gill Sans or Century Gothic.
Serif font: Adobe Garamond Pro.

I can't be the only one nerdy enough to have a favourite font, so let's all share what our favourite fonts are.

My personal favourite is Century Gothic, though I'll go with Tahoma in a pinch.

It isn't an internet friendly font, though it should be, I like Calibri. I do my writing in Calibri, and have my windows theme with that font.

It isn't an internet friendly font, though it should be, I like Calibri. I do my writing in Calibri, and have my windows theme with that font.

Once Vista is released, it will be. It's part of the standard system fonts in Windows Vista.

Arial Narrow ftw.

Anything clear and easy to read -- Times New Roman and Arial being chief among them.

Those ridiculous "handwritten fonts" or "Old English" fonts are about the worst -- especially since my students despite my telling them otherwise seem to think them appropriate for research papers.

Used to be that I would just give my students their papers back and tell them to redo it in a font I could read, but since I have them turn their papers into me via email and I grade them on my laptop, if they do something stupid like that, I just change it to Times New Roman. Then I bitch them out. ;)

Courier new. I just can't get enough of it. My whole computer looks like cross between a screenplay and a gritty dectective drama.

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Though I don't have a font like that for my computer I can write it myself. More or less.

don't u even thinkaboutit!

Whoah! I didn't think it was that bad!!!

Ok, back to dull old Times New Roman it is then :)

Whoah! I didn't think it was that bad!!!

Ok, back to dull old Times New Roman it is then :)

I like the purple-y stuff. It's stylin', and profilin'.

I like the purple-y stuff. It's stylin', and profilin'.

We should start a poll.

Sans Serif - Vrinda

Serif - Gentium

We should start a poll.

We need to appoint a committee to decide if Underdownia can use that colour and font. It's a very serious decision. Hmmmmm*contemplates abuse of parliamentary powers*

(ps: this thread wins the most geeky thread i've yet seen on NS award :p)
That surely can't be true.

True, but the exclemation points have to be gay.
They are totally not gay!

They're just not as sexy as the question marks.

They are totally not gay!

They're just not as sexy as the question marks.

Interrobang>all other punctuation majiggers.

What font is the NS font?

Interrobang>all other punctuation majiggers.

So true.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/Dragonkirby/Non-Kirby/NeedsMoreIB.png

Tahoma's cool for Word and other things.

Still, here the default is king, yeah. :)

(BTW, in MS Word, the default NSG font is 9pt Verdana.)

(ps: this thread wins the most geeky thread i've yet seen on NS award :p)

Especially for you! (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=507597)