Posts Tagged typography

Confessions of a Font Junkie

I was sitting hunched and spindly at my computer tonight pondering font clash, tracking and kerning, when something suddenly occurred to me… I am seriously deranged when it comes to fonts.

Simply put, I spend entirely too much time thinking about fonts. I can't tell you the number of times I've changed the title font on this site, and the body font. About the only thing I've been happy with is the beautiful but strong, perfectly smooth and solid curves of the Frutiger font that is used in my banner (now changed). Now there's a font for you.
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Arial

The shameful history of the Arial font, and it's sordid connections with MS, is recounted with great acumen by Mark Simonson. You'll always use the pious and revered Helvitica after reading this. For font junkies only.