Font And Typeface Thread

[Breadbassket]

Open Sans is pretty neat.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

NYT: At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke (archive)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts.

See thread, close it, open Google News, scroll for a few seconds, and I'm already back here. Now I see that Marco #inspired you.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

FORUM GAME

FONT OR CHEESE?

1. Boudoir
2. Dirt Lover
3. Luella
4. Cacouyard
5. Dranskof
6. Timberdoodle
7. Tetilla
8. Matilde
9. Fontleroy Brown
10. Frankfurter
11. Milbenkase
12. Little Dragon

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Spoiler: ANSWERS

font, cheese, font, cheese, font, cheese, cheese, font, font, font, cheese, font

 

[AStupidMonkey]

mac and cheeeese

 

[The Last Stand]

Calibri is the worse font ever invented.

 

[SNEED.EXE]

FONT OR CHEESE?
Dirt Lover

I really really really really really really really really DON'T want to know where that cheese comes from

 

[Zeftax]

Sans serif font on legal documents is retarded and looks ugly, good job, current admin.
No fucking idea what it has to do with pushing out diversity though lmao.

 

[ArgonianVoter]

Fonts are wonderful things, you can do lots of graphics work with them, it's too bad they're so fucking hard to make. Fixedsys is my fave btw

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

Impact will never die.

 

[ConsentAccidentVictimNo98]

I like the typeface Georgia

 

[Calvin Gabriel]

DejaVu Sans Mono my GOAT

 

[neger psykolog]

nigger

 

[Contra Pozz]

𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖐𝖙𝖚𝖗 𝖔𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕿𝖔𝖉

 

[Relinquish]

HEHEHEHEHEHEEHHEHEHEHEHEH
Imagine not writing in a superior font

 

[Stephanie Bustcakes]

Wingdings is still the patrician's choice.

 

[monk]

Nothing beats the fonts and design from the 1950s. Not only are the fonts good, but every page is hand laid out like a piece of art, pleasant to look at, aesthetically pleasing.

https://www.rfcafe.com/references/radio-news/toc/radio-tv-news-april-1954-table-contents.htm

There aren't even the best examples of this style, just what I could quickly find.
Just about every magazine, flyer, ad, sign from the 1950s up through the 1980s had better fonts and designs.

 

[Slav Power]

Now for something less shitposty since this is a fun nerd topic.

I know
>Google
But Google Fonts is a great place to find free and open source fonts for everything that it is you need a font for. While it is an API meant to make you dependent on Google for serving fonts, it's also a very handy database of fonts with easy filters to find exactly what you're looking for.

Lato is one of the most ubiquitous fonts online designed by a Polish designer Łukasz Dziedzic. Great for soft presentation and whatnot.
IBM Plex Sans is a font designed by IBM and it IBM's very IBM-y. Corporate digital elegance, goes well with UI's.
Inter is a font designed specifically for use in UI's, meant to look good and readable at any size. Notably Blender uses it as it's default font since version 4.0.
Source Code Pro is a serif font designed by Adobe that works perfectly in monospace applications like terminal emulators and text editors.

This is a bit of an oddity but there is an entire font pack composed of old school PC bitmap fonts adapted to a modern format, including an enhanced spin on the classic Windows CMD font as well as a vectorized version of the classic IBM VGA font if you hate the classic crispy pixels and want your fonts to be smooth like butter.

 

[Max Weber]

IBM Plex Sans is a font designed by IBM and it IBM's very IBM-y. Corporate digital elegance, goes well with UI's.

IBM Plex actually has all of Sans, Serif, Mono and Math variants. I quite like the serif and use it in my document/e-book readers.

 

[888Flux]

Nothing beats the fonts and design from the 1950s. Not only are the fonts good, but every page is hand laid out like a piece of art, pleasant to look at, aesthetically pleasing.

https://www.rfcafe.com/references/radio-news/toc/radio-tv-news-april-1954-table-contents.htm

There aren't even the best examples of this style, just what I could quickly find.
Just about every magazine, flyer, ad, sign from the 1950s up through the 1980s had better fonts and designs.

I love it, and miss it so much.

Graphic design is regressing because there is no longer any adherence to grid-based systems that were the basis for traditional publishing. Nu-designers just open up Photoshop or Affinity or Canva or whatever and slop together shit without care. There is no concern because it's all digital whereas in the past what you were designing for was always a physical medium.

A requirement for every graphic designer should be to look at "Grid systems in graphic design" by Josef Muller Brockmann. It's from 1981 but still as relevant as today as it was back then.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3068659/nixon-nasa-and-how-the-federal-government-got-design (Archive)

https://archive.org/details/designnecessityc00cher/mode/2up

rvtrvn......

 

[AmpleApricots]

bitmap fonts. From the worlds blurriest 96 PPI "gamer" "screen" to some high quality ~300 dpi oled or eink panel, they're sharp everywhere. Scalable by a factor of two, they always line up perfectly. Vectorization of fonts was a mistake and is only remotely tolerable if you have a screen with over 210 PPI, otherwise it's just an insult to the eyes.