favorite vs fonts

Corbel
Calibri
Segoe UI (kinda)
Haxrcorp
Standard
Marke Euganb--however you spell it.

you hate segoe ui.

<mini-man> segoe ui SUCKS

<mini-man> because segoe ui at 8pt = sewage

hater.

haha

I say Arial, Arial and Arial...

Okay okay, it sucks at anything other than 7pt. But 7pt it's golden.

Well the usual ones, the kroeger family, avant garde lt medium (caps) and the others that were already mentioned.
A new font find would be nice though...

Arial and Arial Caps

04b_03_caps - no doubt.

arial special G1
century gothic
verdana


(and calibri if it didn't do that thing where it truncates folder or file names in explorer)

arial
arial caps
calibri
segoe ui
segoe ui caps
standard 07_57 caps

kroeger fonts
arial
nu
segoe ui
tzaristane B normal

pjdark says:

tzaristane B normal

mind showing an ss of it running on a vs/sharing?

<Old school>
I'm in a passionate love affair with Swis721 Cn BT (And non-font related, LS and FB. ;)

But if I tire of that, I go for Arial 7pt, cleartype on as well.

</Old school>

Ive always been a fan of the Frutiger fonts, but Ive been impressed with Calibri lately.

Also, isn't Arial basically a rip of Helvetica?

I don't know! But it doesn't come with my computer. And no I haven't read up on that.

Swis721 Cn BT D-Type, 9
Arial Bold, 7
Arial, 8

Using those in my next release.

i love helvetica, but i can't get it to look pretty at small sizes on a vs.

Always liked Verdana.

Recently though - SegoeUI, Corbel, Consolas (though not for VS's - more for linux terminals), and AvantGarde LT / Century Gothic

@ nitzua ......wouldn't do a screen with it. looks like shit at smaller sizes. i would use it for other design purposes. Still a great font though. And yeah if you want me to throw it your way, check your mail in a day or so. :D

Bauhaus family
Helvetica, Helvetica Condensed, Helvetica Neue
Swiss 721

i'd love to use a bauhaus some time, you pull it off so well fabio. i used avant garde to death a while back, now i'm doing the same with calibri. i don't get to use haxrcorp-s8 often enough, but it's in my list of favs. i wasn't always the biggest fan of arial caps, but pep's releases are making it grow on me.

@ nitzua, after further review i now realize that font is a piece of shit. my bad. just burn it. and let's just go with AvantGarde LT Medium. :D

Kroeger
Calibri
Arial
Standard caps
Marke Eigenbau
04b_03_caps
AvantGarde LT Medium

Helvetica and Swiss don't look good on Windows (because of ClearType rendering). They look miles better on a Mac. They are better again when printed (in comparison with other fonts).

I'm looking forward to finding a font that I am happy with.

Kroeger: Found the edges too hard

Arial: Too skinny

Verdana: Too fat

AvantGarde: Looks okay but only when larger

Calibri: Fantastic, except for those damn descenders

Faceplate: My current favourite for print, but shares the same problem as AvantGarde - it was designed for print

Bauhaus: Works well on screen and print. Not so conventional, which can be good or bad depending on your objective

Segoe UI: Its hard to find a decent size to sit at that looks good with both LS and VS font rendering. That said this is my current favourite screen font as it has good height to width ratio

FRUTIGER LINOTYPE

Swis721 Cn BT and SegoeUI.

HaxrCorp is a great one to with too...

kroger caps

arial caps

COMIC SANS FTW

What Thomax said.

Speaking of...
Anyone know where I can get standard 07_57 (not caps)?

there's not "no caps" version of that one, as far i know,

Hmm, turns out I have it.

http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/t/cthu1hu/STAN0757.zip

Raaaaaawr thanks Cthu. :D

@ego: loads of people use it in SSes here on Custo. I think Marius used it on one of his shots and I fell in love with it.
[link]

It was in 3FORM.

It's not 07_57, it's 07_55...
57 is too condensed in lower...
Anyone got it (standard 07_55), please? >.<

I think it would have been important for people to list the sizes that they think the font goes well

same zip file above now includes 55

I already got it... Google provided this time.
Thanks anyway, Cthu, appreciated. =)

Looks awesome. :D

what do you guys say we redo the answers with what are the best sizes for the certain fonts? ;o i find it hard sometimes to find the right size, especially with pixel fonts

Pixel fonts are usually size 6. And ClearType fonts are usually size 7. More often than not.

point or pixel?

Its interesting because on http://www.miniml.com/ which I believe is the author of Kroeger, he says all those fonts on his page are to be used at 8pt or any multiple of 8. But on my computer, it looks fuxed up at 8. It looks good at 6, as you suggested. Maybe this has something to do with my DPI being at 96 instead of 72? I read something about that I didnt really understand it.

6pt (8px) is usually the size for pixel fonts, such as Standard, Hooge, Kroeger etc.
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"2. Font Size
Miniml fonts must set to 8 points or any multiple of 8 (16, 24, 32, etc.) The first 2 numbers after the font name refer to the cap height in pixels. The last 2 numbers refer to the font style."
-----------------------------------------
=S

And yeh, I thought DPI affected font sizes/appearance, but if Kroeger looks right at 6pt on your monitor, then that's the standard/normal...
Confused.

Where can I find 04b_03_caps fonts? =)p

Bdx:
http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=04b_03

That's normal.
Give me a minute and I'll download it and make a caps version.

Here. =)

Wow, thank you buddy. :)

i must say that calibri is lovely, easy to read and very smooth, definetely my fav

04b_03_caps was a new one for me... :D now that i tryed it i really like it... its almost like kroeger caps but more funky... :D

Oh, by the way, I didn't change the name of that 04b_03, so you probably have to replace the nocaps version to install that one...
If it's a problem, ask, and I'll update the upload with a changed one.

calibri and kroeger 6_55 at 6pt, er...i think its 6_55

got damn #'s and underscores in font names.

so confewzin.

It's def confusing
and then it renders differently in different browsers, OS, etc not to mention the DPI setting which it does seem to be made for 72 dpi although most minitors nowadays seemt o be set to 96dpi although im not sure if it would be a good idea to change it down to 72 i barely know antying about dpi settings :\

@SunMoonStar:
72dpi is the standard on screen dpi
150dpi is standard for low resolution proofing
300dpi is standard for print as the human eye cannot see more than that

If you think that's confusing just wait until ppcm is standardised. AHH! :\

my monitor is at 96 dpi (its LCD if it matters)
I know I can go in properties to change it to 72 dpi
should I?

you seem to, uh, understand it :P

72 is the Mac standard and 96 is the Windows standard.

segoe ui
calibri
century gothic

lucida grande

i just paid 10$ for a font called barrett prime.[ vintage typeface]
these ones however are out of my range. i'm sure custom fonts would be more expensive though. still......

http://www.houseind.com/index.php?page=showfont&id=536&subpa
ge=lux_features

Garamond
Verdana
Century Gothic
New Times Roman
Kartika

Basically the old types. Old school-ish.

pjdark: i just checked that out, cool font

excess says:

Bdx:
http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=04b_03

That's normal.
Give me a minute and I'll download it and make a caps version.

how easy is making an all caps version of a font? i could think of a few that would look great.

Very.
But I can't at the moment, because I'm at my Dad's.

Link me to any fonts you want all-capsed, and I'll do it when I get back home.

is it possible to put the Segoe UI's numerics into Calibri, excess?

Calibri, HandelGotD, AvantGarde LT Medium (Non caps)

Lucida Sans Unicode, 7pt is my new favorite.

HaxrCorp Caps 4088 9
Arial 8

Avant Garde LT medium for sure
Segoe UI in some sizes

I'll ask here.

How can I change VS fonts with reshacker?

I would strongly recommend using TGTSoft Resedit which is freeware (http://www.tgtsoft.com/prod_rb.php) instead of reshacker. It is far superior in this task. Then just open up the msstyles, navigate to TEXTFILES and select the file named Normal*_ini, where * is the color scheme. Then just press the edit button to edit. The fonts are defined in there.

Thanks, alot! :)

kroeger

Arial all the way :)