|Film| Font o' Adventure

27 July 2008

|Film| Font o' Adventure

By Alexander Carpenter
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On Friday I was moving some boxes of books into my new office. Suddenly my friend and colleague, Milbert Mariano, came to the door and stood there starring at a book of mine (pictured). Then he grabbed it off the stack and closely examined the cover and the spine while remarking about the clean and striking font. . .he was trying to identify the font by sight. He is, after all, a graphic artist and the man who designed this site.

In honor of the arts, here's a great font of humor.



Do you have a favorite font?

Comments

Helvetica.
/yeah, I recently saw the movie...
//good book! did you enjoy it?

Posted by: Johnny A. Ramirez | 27 July 2008 at 8:17

Yes, it is a handy reference.

Posted by: Alexander Carpenter | 27 July 2008 at 8:26

I can see this thread being as controversial as the Same Sex marriage tread.

I am in the font business, and fonts is what I do. I worked for 12 years as a graphic designer and digital pre-press specialist and now work with fonts for a major software manufacturer.

Sentimental Favorite: Trebuchet MS, designed by Vinnie Connare, who also designed Comic Sans MS. I worked with Vinnie for a while and enjoyed his quirky sense of humor.

New Fave: Calibri, designed by Luc DeGroot, the default email font in Office Outlook 2007.

90's Fave: Galliard, designed by Matthew Carter, who also designed Verdana and Georgia fonts for Microsoft.

Classics: Palatino, designed by Herman Zapf, his friends in the font business call him Professor Zapf. Professor Zaph also designed a great typeface called Goudy Old Style. Gill Sans, Designed by Eric Gill, the talented stone carver, adult convert to Catholicism, founder of an art commune and famous womanizer and some say pedophile.

So many more, but not enough time...

Posted by: Carlitas | 28 July 2008 at 9:46

I'm digging Bookman these days for a serif font. Don't know anything about it though.

http://apokalupto.blogspot.com/

Posted by: David Hamstra | 28 July 2008 at 1:52

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