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Geek Culture / Favourite Fonts

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 24th Oct 2006 16:38
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This might seem a little unusual - but whats your favourite font?

Personally, I'm a coder. I have all the design skills of 3 colourblind hedgehogs... in a bag. I know what [n]I[/b] like - but that isn't really usefull for others. That and there are a million and one font out there.

What are people's favourite? Where do you guys look for them? If you've paid for a font - whats the most? Whats the "going rate"?

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CattleRustler
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Posted: 24th Oct 2006 19:29
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for source code editors I prefer to use Lucida Console

for everything else I like Tahoma

Its 9/11 - but its FAKE 9/11 Ts=SQRT(Df/16)
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Hobgoblin Lord
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Papyrus, love it a nice deep brown on a parchment background.

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Jeku
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Posted: 24th Oct 2006 20:50 Edited at: 24th Oct 2006 20:50
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I like Courier New. *giggle*

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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 24th Oct 2006 20:55
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Kinda big sorry get my fonts from cooltext.com

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Hawkeye
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Verdana ftw. Except for coding, where I prefer Lucida console, or for a bit of oldskool evi1 h4xx0rzfeel, coutier new.


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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 24th Oct 2006 23:42
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I like Comic Sans.
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Dazzag
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Arial Bold 14pt. Looks just fine as headers on my specifications at work.

I think you should be awarded a prize. Something like "Geekiest thread ever" or somesuch.

Cheers

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Saikoro
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Posted: 25th Oct 2006 03:12 Edited at: 26th Oct 2006 15:44
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I like Samarkan: http://www.dafont.com/samarkan.font

samarkan in action


but my favorite devving font is Triskweline: http://www.netalive.org/tinkering/triskweline/


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FoxBlitzz
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Posted: 25th Oct 2006 03:16 Edited at: 25th Oct 2006 03:20
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911 Porscha is kinda cool.

http://www.dafont.com/911porscha.font

Of course, not really a coding font, but interesting for titles and such.

When it comes to IRC, I use FixedSys. I like the bold, monospaced characters. Elsewhere I tend to use Times New Roman or Arial.

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hyrichter
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Posted: 25th Oct 2006 07:26 Edited at: 25th Oct 2006 07:27
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For coding, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is my favorite so far:


Edit: Here's a list of several good programming fonts:
http://www.lowing.org/fonts/

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Cian Rice
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I like 360 Ridge. It's the font used for the Xbox 360 logo. I also love A Theme for Murder...

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indi
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tahoma, verdana, impact, i tend to use when designing to start with

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Crazy Ninja
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Wingdings

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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 26th Oct 2006 13:09
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Quote: "tahoma, verdana, impact, i tend to use when designing to start with"

impact is a good font use it tometimes but it's not my fav heck you should see my msn font

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FoxBlitzz
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Posted: 26th Oct 2006 23:41
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Wingdings? I'm not big on symbol fonts. If I want a symbol of an airplane or a lock, I'd use a real image, not a single-color font.

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David R
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Posted: 26th Oct 2006 23:56 Edited at: 26th Oct 2006 23:57
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Jeku
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Posted: 26th Oct 2006 23:59
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Wow, so l337 </sarcasm>

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David R
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Posted: 27th Oct 2006 00:00 Edited at: 27th Oct 2006 00:00
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Mine was intended to be semi-sarcasm, but without the damn emoticons it just comes across as trying to actually be l33t

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 27th Oct 2006 14:01
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cheers for the font suggestions! Hyrichter - thats not bitstream... This is:


I like it - I am using it now

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