Font art geekery

[Betty]

I love fonts. LOVE them. I will spend a good hour every now and then downloading more I've discovered. I download them for no specfic purpose in mind - other then I love fonts.

I've only ever paid for a handful of them - retro ones that I wanted to use for a specific purpose... the two I used were Chicken Basket and Cocktail Script and I still like those... but I need to go find more. This thread has made me itchy for new ones.

Last count I was up to about 4000 of them. I thought that was bad until I had a guy online about 2 years ago helping out with a logo design who informed me he had over 10,000 of them.

So no, you're not the only one with a thing for fonts.

Even the "plain" font you use in business letter can set the tone of it - happy? serious? The right font can help get that across.

One of my favorite font places is fontdiner.com. A few free fonts - lot's you can buy - and all so very kewl.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Betty

I've only ever paid for a handful of them - retro ones that I wanted to use for a specific purpose... the two I used were Chicken Basket and Cocktail Script and I still like those...

Heh, I know exactly the fonts you're talking about, and I've drooled over fontdiner many a time. I think I first came across that site when we were designing the LoT logo.

Funny, since I wasn't the one who actually did the logo I don't know the fonts involved...Erica? Hmm, I may need to dig around. Anyone have a copy of the old logo?

Alex - so I guess you're not a fan of Gotham, though the letters aren't close together. I often like all-caps fonts.

I am not a fan of the new Animal Planet logo at all, it looks like a mess to me.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Alex - so I guess you're not a fan of Gotham, though the letters aren't close together. I often like all-caps fonts.

I'm not opposed to all caps, but that does not mean all caps is always good. And I think "mindshare" all by itself in a sea of nothing is too long to benefit from it and long enough to suffer for it.

When it comes to design, there is but one universal: No matter what, someone will hate it.

But I'll admit my biases may be influenced from struggling with medieval Russian in college. Which was handwritten in all caps and with no spaces between words.