Font of the Day 5757 Responses

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• OSFA

  Share what you're using, like or want...

  

  http://www.typetrust.com/fonts/f…

  May 19, 08, 8:13 a.m. – Permalink

• HerculesChimp

  

  • this is niiice– dskz1/4

    Hey HerculesChimp, what font is this?– BrokenAC2/4

    Too cartoony even for me– ukit3/4

    yes. The people want to know!
    – kerraaang4/4

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 8:15 a.m. – Permalink

• moamoa

  Top 100 Ranking from Fontshop... choose one and post it here.

  Akkurat is not on the list, Frutiger is 3rd & Dax is on.

  ..and so I hate it

  http://www.100besteschriften.de/…

  • Mistral in at no. 100, nice!– ian

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 8:26 a.m. – Permalink

• 5timuli

  

  

  • I don´t lke the E– moamoa1/2

    You're right about the 'E', it's an m pushed over– alexand2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 11:07 a.m. – Permalink

• 5timuli

  

  • Ronnia– 5timuli

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 11:11 a.m. – Permalink

• 5timuli

  

  • Bree– 5timuli1/2

    Nice, melikes.– gramme2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 11:11 a.m. – Permalink

• 5timuli

  

  • Gloriola– 5timuli1/5

    sweet!– OSFA2/5

    ive been trying to use this that e but i cant see it in the sample page fuuuuck
    
    – pauli3/5

    Nice.– Leigh4/5

    Pauli. Click here and choose "stylistic alternates". http://www.fontshop.…– Typographica5/5

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 11:12 a.m. – Permalink

• gramme

  Leitura is haute. It's on my wish list for sure.

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 11:19 a.m. – Permalink

• gramme

  

  This would work perfectly for the church ID I'm doing right now.

  • perfect, buy it– kelpie1/2

    so nice...– OSFA2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 11:23 a.m. – Permalink

• tank02

  Maybe we can call this thread:
  'robbing typographica's list of the year fonts'?

  • That's cause he's bang-up-to-date and most of these are pretty new. MEWANTS MEWANTS!– 5timuli1/2

    i know, its my yearly bible– tank022/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 11:29 a.m. – Permalink

• OSFA

  Archer
  

  

  http://www.typography.com/fonts/…

  • using this as we speak...– tank021/6

    I prefer archer much more then lucas de groots the Serif– moamoa2/6

    I prefer TheAntiqua to TheSerif.– gramme3/6

    Love this at the moment, and probably will for a while.
    – Andy_ssw4/6

    I'm trying to like Archer, but so far we're not getting along.– 2cents5/6

    how far have you gone 2cents?– omgitsacamera6/6

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 11:30 a.m. – Permalink

• gramme

  Using this as one typographic option for the church ID:

  

  • I like Mercury more then the other one above– moamoa

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 11:38 a.m. – Permalink

• Dr_Rand

  good shit, yo

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 11:42 a.m. – Permalink

• moamoa

  Fresco Plus from Ourtype

  http://www.ourtype.be/

  beautiful website

  & Brauer Neue from Lineto, I normally don´t like italic cuts, but this one is nice

  

  • Sweet– i_monk1/3

    now that just pretty..– TaylorB2/3

    that is very nice– epigraph3/3

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 11:50 a.m. – Permalink

• gramme

  Here's a tangential question:

  Why do Scotch Roman typefaces not have old-style figures? I've noticed that Miller has semi- OSF, like a cross-breed with normal lining figures, whereas Mercury and Chronicle do not have OSF's. Freight, on the other hand, which strikes me as fairly Scotch in its design, DOES have them. Any type nerds know the answer? Did people just abandon old-style figures in the 19th century?

  • sometimes I ask myself the same question, what a bummer– moamoa1/5

    I WAHNT ANSURRZZ– gramme2/5

    hmmm, never noticed that– kelpie3/5

    surely its a digitisation thing?– kelpie4/5

    While most metal type came with OSF, Scotches come from an era when text figures fell out of favor. So not even the originals had them. Mercury and Chronicle are new designs and it surprises me very much that H&FJ did not include them. Check again.– Typographica5/5

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 12:19 p.m. – Permalink

• moamoa

  I always love using Goldenbook (caps)

  

  and YES you know this rare used font...

  

  • very nice, I saw this the other day and want to buy at some point.– gramme1/2

    I bought it last year & I think the price is also very fair. and you got OSF :)– moamoa2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 12:31 p.m. – Permalink

• dskz

  im trying to find this font (title)

  

  • not a font!– moamoa1/2

    100%– moamoa2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 12:37 p.m. – Permalink

• gramme

  got an answer over @ typophile:

  "It’s a historical thing. When the scotch roman style was coming into play, oldstyle figures were no longer in vogue. Most of the original scotch romans didn’t have them (or had hybrid figures instead), so most revivals or interpretations of the genre tend not to have them either.

  It’s not like there’s a biblical law that says “thou shalt not put oldstyle figures in a scotch roman” or anything, it just wasn’t common, historically."

  So that's that.

  • thank you..– moamoa1/5

    cheers– kelpie2/5

    Looks like Miller would be the best choice for classic book typography, since it has hybrid figures that are somewhere between OSF and lining figs.– gramme3/5

    between OSF and lining figs.– gramme4/5

    ...If one wanted that early 19th century Scottish feel without being bludgeoningly Celtic.– gramme5/5

  

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  Dog-earMay 19, 08, 3:02 p.m. – Permalink

• OSFA

  

  http://www.lineto.com/1.0/conten…

  

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  Dog-earMay 21, 08, 7:31 a.m. – Permalink

• kelpie

  

  

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  Dog-earMay 21, 08, 7:39 a.m. – Permalink

• beej

  Fellagio, not yet available ...
  

  

  • but we can't wait till it is! ;)– antigirl1/4

    that is lovely.– ninjasavant2/4

    um, i disagree. This typeface looks like it just came back from having lunch with Willy Wonka.– gramme3/4

    ...yea i can wait– drgs4/4

  

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  Dog-earMay 21, 08, 11:13 p.m. – Permalink