Which Is Your Favourite Font?

[Khandro]

A project I'm working on prompts me to ask what is your preference - if in fact you have one,
and which is this one used by AB, does anyone know?

[Gromit]

I too like Times New Roman as my favourite serif font.
I am a graphic designer by trade, and my go to sans serif font is Avenir.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenir_(typeface)

(Comic Sans is the work of the devil),

[Buenchico]

Gromit has beaten me to it!
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/AB-Editors-Blog/Question1497261.html

(The crazy thing is that the AB team took great care to choose a font in the interests of visually-handicapped people and then made the rest of the site almost impossible to read via a screen-reader! - Just ask Woodelf!)

[-SharonA-]

I love comic sans.

[Peter Pedant]

// I think the AB font is called Tiresias, or something like that.//

wot dat den ? Tiresias is not a metaphor for AB blindness and prejudice. Tiresias he dat blind poet in Homer.
Homer SImpson - yeah dat ! yeah him dat I mean !

Anthony Blanche (*) meets Sebastian Flight(*) and declaims Tiresias from the restaurant balcony - in Brideshead (*) Revisited(1)eral pa

[Peter Pedant]

.... to general approval.

Damn I thought Tiresias was a pun -
yes I agree the type face is pretty easy to read

(*) use - "who dat den?" liberaliter - generally they are all characters in an Evelyn Waugh novel (*) which was televised to great acclaim in 1980. but what the hell who remembers Evelyn Waugh nowadays

[Khandro]

Chris; I know what symbols are, I have to use them a lot, writing in 3 languages with an English keyboard, but if you write some text in Windows Live mail for example, highlight it and change it to 'Bookshelf Symbol' or the lower down, 'Symbol', it is gobbledygook, and no one can read it, even yourself, but you can highlight it again and transfer it back to legibility in another font.
I'm not sure if you could send an email in it though. I'm asking what is its purpose?

[EDDIE51]

My favorite Font is the one in my Parish church. been there since the 14th century!

[Jackdaw33]

Note to PP:

Tiresias is the blind seer in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. I should know, I had to spend a year translating the stuff back in the 60s.

[Buenchico]

You seem to have answered your own question, Khandro!

'Symbol' is NOT for use in emails,etc. It's simply there as an option for those of us who wish to type mathematical expressions.

'Bookshelf Symbol' doesn't exist on my computer but a quick bit of googling suggests that it will similarly appeal only to 'specialist' users.

[Khandro]

Chris; Having looked, I now see Bookshelf symbol 7 has a Wikipedia entry;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf_Symbol_7

Though I'm no wiser :0)

[Peter Pedant]

Jackie // Note to PP: Tiresias (*) is the blind seer(*) in Sophocles' (*) Oedipus (*) Rex (*). //

damn I thought one might understand
and it was you - my good man! - [stars added by the editor]

I was Thoobz (*) lately and mentioned to the natives
"hundred gated Thebes (*)" - that reference really WAS Homer (*) and the Iliad(*) - - - - -hekaton pulai Thebai (*)
and the Anglos looked at me as tho I was crazy as hell. The Egyptians werent sure either Iliad 2' 9 - 380-2 (*)

οὐδ᾽ ὅσ᾽ ἐς Ὀρχομενὸν ποτινίσεται, οὐδ᾽ ὅσα Θήβας
Αἰγυπτίας, ὅθι πλεῖστα δόμοις ἐν κτήματα κεῖται,
αἵ θ᾽ ἑκατόμπυλοί εἰσι, διηκόσιοι δ᾽ ἀν᾽ ἑκάστας
ἀνέρες ἐξοιχνεῦσι σὺν ἵπποισιν καὶ ὄχεσφιν: (**************)

and THEN at Cairo (*) airport on the way back for Hundred gated Thebes (*) - my brother's broken binoculars (muntathir maksoor)(*) were mistaken for a sniper scope
(ganas mu'athimun)(*) - one-eyed, binoculars broken- geddit?
( if you can get azimuth(*) out of the last word - good man! it means "gets largest")
so someone nudged me and said - your brother is just about to get arrested
he deaf and me deaf and blind -
and I sudduv changed from auncient (*) Greek to colloquial arabic plenty plenty quig

sorry Kh - back to the excoriating and absorbing subject of fonz (*)

(*) - cue "what dat den!" as many times as wanted - in the triumphant tone of the crushing one-liner put down
or - hoo dat den ..... if 'what' feels kinda odd.

[Peter Pedant]

// Though I'm no wiser :0)//
neither are we all

[woofgang]

Waltograph

[marval]

I like Monotype Corsiva.

[Gromit]

I first suggested Tiresias to the AB Team (because of its legibility benefits). It went to a vote and it came out favourite ( though it was close).
Whilst it is a bit functional (its not that pretty, but it works) I certainly can see the benefits on my phone, and I am glad they went with it.

[Gromit]

I remember being adked about 10 years ago to revitalise a website. I analysised it, and there nothing much wrong other than the typeface (I can’t rember what it was, but it was ghastly). I did some minor tweaks to the UI and changed the font to Verdana ( a Microsoft inspired highly legible screen font). I still see the website owner today, and he is still effusive in his praise.
And all I did was change the typeface to one that people could just easily read.

[Khandro]

Gromit; It demonstrates just how important these things are. On my project the favourite possibility at the moment, where I don't want something too everyday modern, is Trajan Pro.
Incidentally, are you freelance and are in a position to take on work at the moment?

[Peter Pedant]

thx I will have to bear Tiresias in mind

[Khandro]

woofgang, I can't find Waltograph, it sounds like one of 'The late arrivals'; Mr and Mrs Graph and their son Walter.

[Old_Geezer]

Times New Roman