Funky Fonts Are Funky

[Baysiderulez]

So, yeah I do realize I have now made two topics in one night... in the same board, but I honestly don't care, and I give props to Random Person for this thread idea.

We were talking in the chat and realized when he kinda randomly (go figure) asked me what font I was using... I perfer the fixedsys font in the chat. However when I write papers or get to do projects/ graphics work I choose other fonts....

My favorite font for signing my name is "Ally Cats" Which is actually the font that is in my avatar and signature currently. I just love the bounciness of the font and its made itself known with my "jocreations" stamp I have on all my created wallpapers.

So I turn it over to you ZD, what are some of your favorite fonts to use, and why do you like that font?

 

[Random Person]

My favorite font is Comic San because I love to read comics and it has the word comic in it. The font also looks like it belongs in a comic book so it's fun to use. My next fave is Times New Romans because it's a classic. The next get a little complicated so I'll end there.

 

[athenian200]

I don't really like weird fonts. The weirdest fonts I like are Fixedsys and Terminal, because they look like an old computer console.

Other than that, I pretty much like standard fonts. I like Times New Roman, Helvetica, and Gill Sans.

 

[ancazur]

Gil sans is my favorite font ever. I use it whenever possible. It's pretty (okay okay, design nerd going away).

Unless I'm doing a website, then my standard is verdana. It's so tiny and clean.

 

[Mandi]

For essays and the like, I almost always use Century. It's just a nice, clean font, and it looks good. For anything else? I'm particularly drawn to Monotype Corsiva and Vivaldi. Pristina is cool, too.

 

[Fraxinus]

Oh, yes... the Font Queen is very pleased with you for this thread, Baysiderz. ^^
So... obviously, since I am the Font Queen, I have quite a bit of favorites. My fonts always fall into two categories: Boring Fonts (the typical serif and sans serif fonts for school papers and stuff), and Fun Fonts (the crazy fonts that may be a bit unreadable and are usually the free fonts).

So... my current most-used and/or favorite fonts are, as follows:


Boring Fonts:

• Arial Unicode MS - You can view it here.
• Calibri - You can view it here.
• Cambria - You can view it here.
• Tahoma - You can view it here.
• Trebuchet MS - You can view it here.
• Verdana - You can view it here.

Fun Fonts:

• HansHand - You can view it here.
• Hobo - You can view it here.
• Immortal - You can view it here.
• Journal - You can view it here.
• Magneto - You can view it here.
• Sherwood - You can view it here.
• Turbayne Running Hand - You can view it here.
• Ugly Face - You can view it here.

Also, if I am coding something using notepad, I like my font to be set as Courier New. There are so many that I would like to mention as well, such as Poor Richard, Occidental, Ravenna, and others, but I don't think listing a thousand-some long list of fonts is really called for.
As for my reasons... Well, let's just say that I am a creative Font Queen and these just appeal to me. ^^