do you have a favorite font? are there any you can’t stand?
my current go-tos:
serif: Charter
mono: Berkeley Mono
hates:
Papyrus
Times New Roman
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@ben So many for either side, but let’s pick a few:
Favorites:
- serif: Plantin, Bembo/Aldine 401, Melior, Fern, IBM Plex Serif
- sans: Optima, Univers, Antique Olive, Fira
- mono: Courier Prime, EGA, Pragmasevka, Monaco (this category is more volatile than others)
Not so good:
- Souvenir, Spectral, Brush Script, Bookman’s swashes, Monos with script-like italics
@Leminski hell yeah
@dashdsrdash palatino is lovely, i was looking at palatino nova
@technomancy hah no i haven’t! i will have to give it a look
@icy ooh great picks! i gotta look up sf mono
i like comic sans
iosevka nerd font for monospace stuff, and inter for interfaces
@ben big machines with Eurostile Bold Extended on the side saying what the machine is
I prefer to read long-form text in Palatino at a high resolution.
TX Gyre Pagella is an acceptable substitution.
I don’t enforce this opinion on others, I just like it.
@ben have you seen Hot Dad’s video about picking a font for a web site?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73gGwGI8Z7E
Hot Dad – Just Tell Me What Font to Pick (When I’m Making Websites for Kids)
favs:
- serif: Instrument Serif (display), Charter (body)
- sans: Inter all day everyday
- mono: Input, SF Mono
not favs:
- Ubuntu/Mono
- Cantarell
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