Ask DN: Favorite typefaces?
over 10 years ago from John Mauro
What are your go-to typefaces and/or which do you especially like to use?
over 10 years ago from John Mauro
What are your go-to typefaces and/or which do you especially like to use?
Flat fonts (trollface)
Sans-Serif: Neuzeit Grotesk Akidenz Grotesk Brandon Text ( new addition) Gotham Proxima Nova Gills Sans
Serif: Garamond Pro Caslon Premier Georgia
Serif:
Skolar FF Tisa Web Pro Georgia Hoefler Text
Sans-serif:
ITC Franklin Source Sans Pro Open Sans League Gothic
Tungsten Knockout Champion Archer Gotham
Anything from Hoefler & Frere-Jones
Agreed. H&FJ always has beauties. I first fell in love with Gotham and then from there it was Mercury. Now it's about half a dozen from them.
FF Meta and FF Tisa. Lisa is also really nice. Lava from Typotheque is a great typeface as well. Of course, Garamond. Prettiest double storey G. Can't mess with Proxima Nova - quite boring, but still good. Georgia, although that one gets clunky at bigger sizes. Futura, anything from H&FJ, et cetera...
Verb Nexis Melany
Massimo Vignelli would say: Bodoni, Helvetica, Times Roman, Century, Futura.
Google Webfonts: Lato and Open Sans
HfJ Gotham Whitney Archer
Nilland has been a go-to on my latest project.
Go-to tried-and-true: Whitney, Sentinel, Source Sans Pro, Univers, Mercury.
Brandon Grotesque (!), Prox... never mind, Helvetica, Source Sans, Montserrat
Univers Comfortaa Helvetica Neue Futura
I like type from FontDeck http://fontdeck.com/
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