do you have a favorite font? are there …

do you have a favorite font? are there any you can’t stand?

my current go-tos:
serif: Charter
mono: Berkeley Mono

hates:
Papyrus
Times New Roman

11 replies on “do you have a favorite font? are there …”

favs:

not favs:

@ben have you seen Hot Dad’s video about picking a font for a web site?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73gGwGI8Z7E

I prefer to read long-form text in Palatino at a high resolution.

TX Gyre Pagella is an acceptable substitution.

I don’t enforce this opinion on others, I just like it.

@ben big machines with Eurostile Bold Extended on the side saying what the machine is

iosevka nerd font for monospace stuff, and inter for interfaces

i like comic sans

@icy ooh great picks! i gotta look up sf mono

@technomancy hah no i haven’t! i will have to give it a look

@dashdsrdash palatino is lovely, i was looking at palatino nova

@Leminski hell yeah

@ben So many for either side, but let’s pick a few:

Favorites:

serif: Plantin, Bembo/Aldine 401, Melior, Fern, IBM Plex Serif
sans: Optima, Univers, Antique Olive, Fira
mono: Courier Prime, EGA, Pragmasevka, Monaco (this category is more volatile than others)

Not so good:

Souvenir, Spectral, Brush Script, Bookman’s swashes, Monos with script-like italics