But anonymous bashing on a blog that, from what I can tell was tongue in cheek is somehow less tool-ish?

My 2 favorite fonts though, would be ‘Andes’ and ‘Solid Antique Roman’… gotta love Bioshock and Gilmore Girls! >:D

I was appalled. It is one thing for novice to make a misguided effort to make something look “Friendly” by using a dorky font. But for a book on Graphic design by a self proclaimed expert! yeeesh. Thankfully, this inconceivably bad choice was nixed by the publisher.

Seeing this little web posting made me smile. Most people don’t understand even bothering to hate a font. But when real beauty is widely available, there is just no excuse for “Papyrus”. etc..

My other pet peeve is digital small caps, instead of real small caps. I say don’t even bother unless you go for the real thing.

Oh yes, and I dislike the fonts you have used on your website.

(very much)

Thankyou.

Or when Papyrus is used outside its intended use: “Costello described his goal as a font that would represent what English vernacular would have looked like if written on papyrus 2000 years ago.”

What you actually hate are idiots that misuse the fonts. And that’s a different matter.

Leave the fonts be – each has his use and place.

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But if you don’t want to take my advice feel free to use comic sans on all your e-mails, I won’t mind. I promise

Gill Sans has been lovingly kerned by professional typographers; who are you to put 2px between each letter?

I wonder if designers of the future will interpret Lucinda Grand and Chalkboard that way.

Times… the cr*ppy cut that comes free with your pc — yes it does stink. But higher quality versions can be had, and used with restraint can be perfectly appropriate for a number of purposes, albeit, most better met by Minion or Janson.

Let’s try a test: Print a copy of Lord of the Rings (the complete works in one book) in Arial or even better, Verdana and start reading it. I bet with you: Your future oculist is going to have a huge increase of his salary after you’ve been finished with reading

Verdana was a font specifically designed for screens before anti-aliasing was widely available. I am not sure why anyone would suggest using it for a print?

There are situations to use a serif font and a san-serif font, but that doesn’t mean ANY of the two.

AFAIK, Office 2007 has Calibri as its default font

Arial and other rounded fonts are a total crapper if you have to endure them for more than 10 pages aka screens. The clear advantage of serifed fonts is, that your eye can get a hold on them, whilest the

On the web, Arial + Co. are IMNSHO only (over)used, because Times (or Bitstream Vera Serif in my case) is the default set font in every browsing application world-wide. Also, architects, graphic designers and other folks that tend to think reading should be also totally styled up, like to see them roundy crap around a lot.

Let’s try a test: Print a copy of Lord of the Rings (the complete works in one book) in Arial or even better, Verdana and start reading it. I bet with you: Your future oculist is going to have a huge increase of his salary after you’ve been finished with reading

cu, w0lf.

I think I first became frustrated with copperplate when I saw it used for every sign at a Ski Resort in Utah. How copperplate fit their branding I have no idea…

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I wouldn’t have put Times on the list myself, but other than that, a great list. It should probably be noted, however, that these all have (more limited) uses for which they are appropriate. Except one.

Lucida handwriting. It is my least favourite font of all. There are a few times where a ‘hand-written look’ might be appropriate, most of these being ‘type as texture’ scenarios. Even in those cases, Lucida handwriting is a bad choice. It’s not very legible, it looks ugly, and it doesn’t look like real handwriting. Better to write the message yourself and scan it in.

Of course then there are the people who set entire documents in it, but there’s no point in trying to teach them.

I still get “professional” emails in Comic Sans and every time I want to write back and tell them about it, but I don’t.

Overused, inappropriate usage, tend to be offenders of both… some of them are just illegible typefaces. I was venting more than anything, but thanks for the feedback.

No good way to give alternatives with out knowing the exact situation that you will be using the typeface for. The problem with so many of these typefaces is that they are used in inappropriate situations (well, some of them are just horrible).

@Joe – I agree, Zapfino is terribly overused.

@Trevor – For what ever reason Coudal partners seem to love Times, on their own site and the one you mention… they use it everywhere. It is still an akward typeface and there are plenty of good alternatives other than georgia. Not the worst one on the list, and yes part of it is because it is the default typeface. Still not a great typeface.

I must disagree with Gill Sans and Helvetica. These fonts are just… priceless.

For my 2 cents: Zapfino. To me that says, “Hey guys, I just got a Mac!”