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Thanks. This is what I wanted to say as well. I am heartily sick of Times/Arial/Comic as you rightly said. Hell, I even saw it on some road sign/car parking bay

by Surio 14y ago

Thanks. This is what I wanted to say as well. I am heartily sick of Times/Arial/Comic as you rightly said. Hell, I even saw it on some road sign/car parking bays where some kind of large Sans (Highway Sans??) is legally obligatory! Now Times as replace the venerable Courier New in US govt. documents.... Oh the horror! For me it was anything but those. :-) +1 for Palatino/Garamond. I also read somewhere that Garamond uses less ink too (but readability on A5 for fonts less than 11 pt is somewhat hard) Serif: I am partial to Century Schoolbook myself because it is eminently readable by all ages (on 10pt no less!) on A5 sizes. (I read somewhere that this was the first font that launched Knuth's imagination on kerning, etc. (in a nice way), and his life long fascination for typography) Sans-Serif: Century Gothic - thin but very readable on small sizes as well. I later found out that this font takes up less printer ink while being printed as well. So double yay! >> Please consider branching out and using something else for your next document Very true. At least in this day and age of fontsquirrel, dafont, urbanfont, etc. etc.... there is no excuse to spend at least 15 mins to look for some interesting fonts. :-)

crististm 14y ago
Thanks for pointing out the Century Schoolbook. I stumbled on it on some old hardware and liked the numbers very much. Now I know the name of the font.
- tomjen3 14y ago
  Latex has a package for New Century Schoolbook. After I found that, I used it for all my University work. It is just that awesome, and if you are pressed for space, you can make the size quite small without anybody noticing. I still haven't found a free version of it on the net though.
  - Surio 14y ago
    If you are looking for "free" alternatives for other plaforms, here are some close relatives and provide the same 'features' that one expects from Century. Plus, they are free. :-) You're welcome. ;-) These sets below, are complete (R, SC, B ,IT, B+IT...) fonts AFAIK. http://www.dafont.com/justus.font http://www.dafont.com/justus.font http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Latin-Modern-Roman http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Latin-Modern-Roman http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/TeX-Gyre-Schola http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/TeX-Gyre-Schola http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/TeX-Gyre-Bonum http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/TeX-Gyre-Bonum -- Bookman clone. These are not complete, but they are close relatives. http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Theano-Didot http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Theano-Didot http://www.fontsquirrel.com/foundry/Alexey-Kryukov http://www.fontsquirrel.com/foundry/Alexey-Kryukov http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Old-Standard-TT http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Old-Standard-TT http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Bentham http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Bentham http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/DubielPlain http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/DubielPlain http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Theano-Modern http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Theano-Modern Here are some ripoff fonts... http://www.fonts101.com/search/bodoni http://www.fonts101.com/search/bodoni
tripzilch 14y ago
> fontsquirrel, dafont, urbanfont while these sites are fine if you're looking for a cool display font for a poster or something, it's quite hard to find fonts there suitable for heavy use because many of them are really (really) badly kerned and miss many glyphs you need in most texts. there's probably a few to be found there (especially on FontSquirrel), but it's real hard to tell before downloading and trying them on a full paragraph, as the sites are very specifically designed to answer the question "does my short title / logo look good in this font?" instead of "is it a good font to use in Word?".
- Surio 14y ago
  :-) Tell me about it! I've found a few good ones on them (see my reply to Century clones elsewhere on this post) and a looooot of bad ones as you mentioned. And sadly, poster/logo is not my area, but body text is. > but it's real hard to tell before downloading and trying them on a full paragraph +1 :-/ I know what you mean. (Mido comes to mind immediately!) Perhaps Smashing Magazine is not very popular around here(?), but I check back now and then with them, since they provide links to some very interesting and complete fonts from time to time.
chestnut-tree 14y ago
"I am heartily sick of Times/Arial/Comic..." When Microsoft released Windows Vista in 2007, it included new typefaces some of which I think are really nice. - Calibri (a lovely sans-serif design) and Consolas (a monospace typeface) were designed by Dutch type designer Lucas De Groot [1] - Cambria (a serif typeface) was designed by the Dutch type designer Jelle Bosma, Steve Matteson (who designed the popular Google-commisioned font Open Sans) and Robin Nicholas. - Constantia (another serif typeface) by the Canada-based type designer John Hudson To see examples of all of these fonts, see http://www.ascendercorp.com/catalog/microsoft/clear-type-font-collection/ http://www.ascendercorp.com/catalog/microsoft/clear-type-fon... There's no need for Windows' users to default to Arial or Times New Roman anymore. Excellent aletrnatives that come with the OS have been available for many years. 1. http://www.lucasfonts.com/case-studies/calibri-consolas/ http://www.lucasfonts.com/case-studies/calibri-consolas/
- nateweiss 14y ago
  Yes. I love that Consolas is included in Windows now. I always set my code text editors to use it when I'm on Windows, and try to get other folks to try it too. Such a pleasant fixed-width font to use when coding. It can also be used on the Mac.
- epochwolf 14y ago
  Office for Mac 2011 defaults to Calibri. It's a nice font.

by Surio 14y ago

crististm 14y ago

Thanks for pointing out the Century Schoolbook. I stumbled on it on some old hardware and liked the numbers very much. Now I know the name of the font.

tomjen3 14y ago
Latex has a package for New Century Schoolbook. After I found that, I used it for all my University work. It is just that awesome, and if you are pressed for space, you can make the size quite small without anybody noticing. I still haven't found a free version of it on the net though.
- Surio 14y ago
  If you are looking for "free" alternatives for other plaforms, here are some close relatives and provide the same 'features' that one expects from Century. Plus, they are free. :-) You're welcome. ;-) These sets below, are complete (R, SC, B ,IT, B+IT...) fonts AFAIK. http://www.dafont.com/justus.font http://www.dafont.com/justus.font http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Latin-Modern-Roman http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Latin-Modern-Roman http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/TeX-Gyre-Schola http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/TeX-Gyre-Schola http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/TeX-Gyre-Bonum http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/TeX-Gyre-Bonum -- Bookman clone. These are not complete, but they are close relatives. http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Theano-Didot http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Theano-Didot http://www.fontsquirrel.com/foundry/Alexey-Kryukov http://www.fontsquirrel.com/foundry/Alexey-Kryukov http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Old-Standard-TT http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Old-Standard-TT http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Bentham http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Bentham http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/DubielPlain http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/DubielPlain http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Theano-Modern http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Theano-Modern Here are some ripoff fonts... http://www.fonts101.com/search/bodoni http://www.fonts101.com/search/bodoni

tripzilch 14y ago

> fontsquirrel, dafont, urbanfont while these sites are fine if you're looking for a cool display font for a poster or something, it's quite hard to find fonts there suitable for heavy use because many of them are really (really) badly kerned and miss many glyphs you need in most texts. there's probably a few to be found there (especially on FontSquirrel), but it's real hard to tell before downloading and trying them on a full paragraph, as the sites are very specifically designed to answer the question "does my short title / logo look good in this font?" instead of "is it a good font to use in Word?".

Surio 14y ago
:-) Tell me about it! I've found a few good ones on them (see my reply to Century clones elsewhere on this post) and a looooot of bad ones as you mentioned. And sadly, poster/logo is not my area, but body text is. > but it's real hard to tell before downloading and trying them on a full paragraph +1 :-/ I know what you mean. (Mido comes to mind immediately!) Perhaps Smashing Magazine is not very popular around here(?), but I check back now and then with them, since they provide links to some very interesting and complete fonts from time to time.

chestnut-tree 14y ago

"I am heartily sick of Times/Arial/Comic..." When Microsoft released Windows Vista in 2007, it included new typefaces some of which I think are really nice. - Calibri (a lovely sans-serif design) and Consolas (a monospace typeface) were designed by Dutch type designer Lucas De Groot [1] - Cambria (a serif typeface) was designed by the Dutch type designer Jelle Bosma, Steve Matteson (who designed the popular Google-commisioned font Open Sans) and Robin Nicholas. - Constantia (another serif typeface) by the Canada-based type designer John Hudson To see examples of all of these fonts, see http://www.ascendercorp.com/catalog/microsoft/clear-type-font-collection/ http://www.ascendercorp.com/catalog/microsoft/clear-type-fon... There's no need for Windows' users to default to Arial or Times New Roman anymore. Excellent aletrnatives that come with the OS have been available for many years. 1. http://www.lucasfonts.com/case-studies/calibri-consolas/ http://www.lucasfonts.com/case-studies/calibri-consolas/

nateweiss 14y ago
Yes. I love that Consolas is included in Windows now. I always set my code text editors to use it when I'm on Windows, and try to get other folks to try it too. Such a pleasant fixed-width font to use when coding. It can also be used on the Mac.
epochwolf 14y ago
Office for Mac 2011 defaults to Calibri. It's a nice font.