ThreeBlessings Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 What font do you prefer to read and type in? I'm curious what others prefer. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth in OH Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 I will answer this question, because I'm nerdy (and kinda picky) about such things. Times New Roman, 12 point type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglei Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 To type in: Verdana, 9 point type To read what others have written: Doesn't really matter (just so long as it's not so *fancy* that it's hard to read) . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Times New Roman, 12 point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRTGSw2K Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Frutiger 10pt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
readinmom Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Arial, 12 point font, with TNR a distant second. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alte Veste Academy Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Book Antiqua 12 pt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Arial 10pt, though I never bother to change the font type on here.... (I choose Arial 10pt for emails, documents, etc....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Comic Sans 14pt Just kidding. Really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Just kidding. Really. :lol: You're such a sans serif comic-edian. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisIsTheDay Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Calling all font nerds! You have all read this little gem of a book, right? Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield It was a bestseller last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawana Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 (edited) . Edited January 5, 2012 by Lawana Oops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milovany Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Just kidding. Really. I know most people loathe Comic Sans, but I transcribe for a living (real-time, for someone else to read while I'm typing) and the studies the company did when developing this software showed that Comic Sans is one of the easiest on the eyes for intensive reading like in the situation I'm in at work. I like whatever I'm typing in now. Oh, look, it's Verdana. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didadeewiththree Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Times New Roman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 I know most people loathe Comic Sans, but I transcribe for a living (real-time, for someone else to read while I'm typing) and the studies the company did when developing this software showed that Comic Sans is one of the easiest on the eyes for intensive reading like in the situation I'm in at work. I like whatever I'm typing in now. Oh, look, it's Verdana. :001_smile: I find it to be the best choice for tiny print on computer screens (hence its use in my sig). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ester Maria Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Times New Roman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 I will answer this question, because I'm nerdy (and kinda picky) about such things. Times New Roman, 12 point type. Ditto. I like the font on this site as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarlaS Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Century Gothic. I like its clean look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisIsTheDay Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 :lol: You're such a sans serif comic-edian. ;) :lol::lol::lol: Font humor!!! Definitely the funniest thing I've heard all week!! That's BRILLIANT!! I believe Comic Sans made both the Favorite Fonts list and the Most Hated Fonts list in the font book . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatMomof3 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 I like Garamond or Century Gothic, depends on my mood :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2jjka Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Georgia is my favorite standard font, but if I'm in a fancy mood I'll pick Monotype Corsiva. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fhjmom Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 i prefer reading a clean serif font over sanserif; Georgia, Garamond, and TImes New Romans are my "old standbys". The non-profit I work with uses Trebuchet for most of their printed materials and it is probably my favorite sanserif. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Desktop publisher/page layout geek here. :D A serif font. Serifs are those little swoopy blurps at the ends of letters in fonts like Times New Roman. The default font here (Verdana) is a sans-serif font. Studies have shown that it is easier to read a serif font. In general, I'm not fond of sans-serif fonts because most of them don't have true italics. You can skew them in your word processor so they sort of look like italics, but they aren't really. Also, with most of them you can't tell the difference between an upper-case i and a lower-case l. Very confusing. If I'm doing something that might be shared with another computer, I'll just go with Times New Roman (which has both bold and italics faces) for the body, and Arial bold for headers, because most computers have those. If it's something I'm printing/publishing, I like Goudy Old Style, although Giovanni is nice (I like its italics face). With Times New Roman/Goudy/Giovanni, I usually go with about 11 points (11 points in those is different than 11 points in, say, Mistral or Papyrus). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsidian Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 I like: Times New Roman Century Gothic and Garamond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vida Winter Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Courier New, 11 pt. for most everything. Completely old fashioned -- I adore it. For a book font, I favor Garamond. I spend hours analyzing fonts -- it used to be my job -- and I keep coming back to these two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Comic Sans 14pt Just kidding. Really. You need to read this. http://bit.ly/ioivm6 Language is salty and not kid friendly, but enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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