I used to do my coursework in Arial narrow at 12pt, I like the condensed look. I'm liking Futura currently.

Calibri is friendly but fairly formal.

I usually type up simple docs in Georgia or Helvetica.

I can't really think of a favorite typeface any more. There are faces I like, but no clear favorite.

I just use Times New Roman. Classic and my Office 2007 ran out of license so all I have is Office 97. :/

God's sake man.

I've been playing around with different fonts in code editors. I'm loving Menlo Regular right now, which is the TextWrangler default. Other than that it's always Courier New.

I hate OpenOffice. Anyway, Office 97 does a decent job, most of the coursework I do has to be hand written anyway so it isn't too much of a problem.

There is always Dafont.com for free fonts which is awesome because that's what I used for the Oddmatics logo. Space Age I think it was called. They even have a DOS imitation font on there. Not really useful for work related documents though, but still awesome for graphics. Perfect DOS VGA or something.

no no NO

That is poor decision-making!

And why is that?

Because.

Meh, seems fine to me, just don't go for shit fonts and it's good.

You do have to wade through a lot of shit to find a decent one though.

Well it's been good for me, probably because I go on it very rarely and tend to stick to pixel fonts or searching. I wouldn't go though all those other sections, no way sir.

And I presume you know what makes a good font?

This is where Manco reveals that his mother died from poor typesetting.

Or you could just get fonts that you have to pay for... for free.

Then get sued when you use them and you don't have a license.

The font police will break down your door with their serif cannon.

Or you could design your own font.

I think that's called "handwriting".

I never knew my father. One fateful day, his life expectancy took a terminal dip.

There’s a quote about that in my book, too, but I’m not even going to dignify you by typing it out.

I’ll just let you know it’s a real scummy thing to do.

e:
How naïve.

Not really. MM nailed it with the handwriting thing.

No, he didn’t, and if you think type design is just writing an alphabet in your handwriting you’re an idiot.

Calm down, I wasn't being serious.

Designing a workable font is very difficult, and if you're successful you'll end up with something that looks just like any other generic typeface out there, except to experts whose keen eye will loath both your work and your mother for birthing you.

people are getting pissy and uptight about fonts

really?

This is the Oddworld Forums, did you really expect anything less?

A wretched hive of scum and cliché.

It's funny because you typed it in a monospace font.

But, yeah. White/black for code stuff is great for saving eye-strain. I actually use a really dark shade of grey for my background, specifically 0x111111.

You should type in courier new with a black background and green letters, that way it looks retro and techy. 80's style.

That's why I like it for coding. Since my IDE likes to color words, it also makes my code look shiny and colorful. IDK if colorful words is old-school though. I wouldn't doubt that high end IDEs/text editors back then colored certain words.

Since my IDE gives pretty colored underlines to mistakes in source code, I can also change the font/color and pretend I'm using Microsoft Word.

One that you can read and fits with the overall design of what you're using it in. That's why I never use Brush Script at least, nobody can read it easily.

**TYPEFACES

GOD

all i can say is if one looks pretty or not

Sometimes I see a nice TYPEFACE and everything is great but then I forget what it was not even a few hours later.

More like TYPEFECES.

You know what's better than typefaces? Handwriting.

Because I'm anal I spend a fuck tonne of time practising my handwriting.

I practice from something like this:

http://cdn.thesandtrap.com/8/89/89138517_writing.jpeg

And most copperplate fonts help too...

I can't read any of that shit because my schools were full of incompetent fuck teachers who didn't know how to teach us cursive. The worst part was in middle school the cunts expected us to do all of our work in cursive and we'd get marked off if everything we wrote wasn't in cursive.

Guess who almost failed 6th and 7th grade because of that bullshit and still doesn't know how to read or write cursive

I've always used Tahoma for any college work i've done. It looks nice and it's pretty contemporary... and it's a change from Calibri.

Tahoma's nice. Really, when it gets down to it, so long as the font isn't Ariel I rarely ever have a problem with it. Comic Sans doesn't bother me but it's fun to see how overused it is.