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Ask HN: What's your favourite typeface?
- Tomte 11y agoBembo. Impractical as it may be sometimes, I just adore the capital R.
- charlieegan3 11y agoAnything I don't need to extra pay for! Lato is nice - it's on Google Fonts.
- Raed667 11y agoI enjoy using "Duru Sans" whenever I need to write some paragraphs. For headings and titles I like a clean "DejaVu Sans"
- kp25 11y agoI just enjoy writing code using "Monospace".
- gjvc 11y agoconsolas 11pt
- rooundio 11y agoGotham by Tobias Frere-Jones. A very similar open source alternative is Montserrat by Julieta Ulanovsky
- sikolpoerlo 11y agoBelanja online aman dan nyaman dari CODY - SPAREPART DAN ALAT SERVICE HP NO.1 https://www.tokopedia.com/codyonline https://www.tokopedia.com/codyonline
- BjoernKW 11y agoIs there such a thing? Sounds a bit like 'favourite colour'. Anyway, that said, Fira Sans is very nice.
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- brudgers 11y agoDepends on why I am selecting a typeface.
- J-dawg 11y agoFun typeface fact: Stanley Kubrick's favourite was Futura Extra Bold, it was used on the posters for Eyes Wide Shut and 2001 Source: (http://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/mar/27/features.weekend http://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/mar/27/features.weekend) The Nike logo is also from the Futura family (https://www.quora.com/What-font-is-used-for-the-Nike-logo https://www.quora.com/What-font-is-used-for-the-Nike-logo)
- danbolt 11y agoOther typeface fact! The title text in 2001 uses capital O's instead of zeroes. [1] The zeroes in Gill Sans are thinner than the O's, so part of me thinks Kubrick wanted the logo to look more futuristic. [1] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/e-QFj59PON4/maxresdefault.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/e-QFj59PON4/maxresdefault.jpg
- kleer001 11y agoChicago. For fun, for nostalgia, for distinctiveness, for boldness, for my heart and my soul. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_%28typeface%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_%28typeface%29 Susan Kare, its prolific designer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare
- lauritz 11y agoAdobe Garamond [0] is really nice to look at, I think, especially for long passages of text. With Akzidenz-Grotesk [1] as a runner-up (and for headlines etc.). Font fun fact: This was actually the font Massimo Vignelli originally used on the NYC subway system, before the MTA changed it to Helvetica (which is a fine choice, too, though I personally think Akzidenz (on which Helvetica is partly based) is prettier) [2]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garamond#Adobe_Garamond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garamond#Adobe_Garamond [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akzidenz-Grotesk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akzidenz-Grotesk [2]: http://www.helveticasubway.com http://www.helveticasubway.com
- ivebencrazy 11y agoI'm a huge fan of Freight Text Pro for serifs (https://typekit.com/fonts/freight-text-pro https://typekit.com/fonts/freight-text-pro). It's like... just rounded enough to be soft and kind, but still be professional. I'm talking mostly about the medium weight, but the whole series is nice.
- tptacek 11y agoChaparral.
- starshadowx2 11y agoNeue Haas Grotesk [0], the original name and style of Helvetica. [0] http://www.fontbureau.com/nhg/ http://www.fontbureau.com/nhg/
- mnort9 11y agoOpen Sans