i heart type

[thejessjess]

okei who is a dork like me that loves typography? i know im not the only one...
ninja  

[rogue_designer]

I adore typefaces. Designed a few, and have the utmost respect for those who do that for a living. Great stuff.

It's like pulling teeth to get my clients to understand the value of good typography.

Papyrus can suck it.

(triplex holds a special place in my heart at the moment tho...)  

[Chisa]

I'm just starting to appreciate type much more (and appreciate the fact that I barely know anything about it). It can have such a subtle but powerful effect, which I guess is why clients don't understand the value of it too well confused

I like to look at the signage along the street while riding the bus to work and name the type faces on them rofl *geek* Century Gothic seems to be in fashion for signage around here at the mo.  

[thejessjess]

haha my friends and i always catch ourselves discussing type or nameing type that we see...its awsome ninja  

[Jenudi]

Papyrus = Yuck!

Massimo is my hero!! rofl  

[Koiyuki]

Type can be a very powerful thing when trying to sell something or portray a certain image. Roughness, softness, angles, and a whole bunch of other factors can affect what a person thinks when they see it. Although I think it blows that we have to pay $20 for one type of font, even if it is super cool...

*saw a bunch of different, EXPENSIVE fonts that are not attainable without a credit card* :X  

[thejessjess]

i dont mind paying. i would rather go the legal way than steal the type face. but i would only try to buy from adobe or ITC because i know they know thier type and thou its expensive i trust them, plus how many different type facec do you use? the famous designers only end up useing at least 5 to 10 different type faces at the most. you just get into this way of useing only a few of your favorite type faces anyway.  

[rogue_designer]

$20 for a font is cheap cheap... I've spent as much as $350 on an individual typeface before (including families of bold/narrow/smcaps, etc.)

Back in '98 I spent almost 8k on the entire adobe font library in Multiple Master versions...

Of course, once we switched to OSX I couldn't use any of them anymore. sweatdrop

ITC is tres nice... I really like the newer typefaces being developed by House Industries too (Neutra is one of my favorite sans families ever ... and Chalet is a close 3rd of 4th)  

[Koiyuki]

rogue_designer

$20 for a font is cheap cheap... I've spent as much as $350 on an individual typeface before (including families of bold/narrow/smcaps, etc.)

Back in '98 I spent almost 8k on the entire adobe font library in Multiple Master versions...

Of course, once we switched to OSX I couldn't use any of them anymore. sweatdrop

ITC is tres nice... I really like the newer typefaces being developed by House Industries too (Neutra is one of my favorite sans families ever ... and Chalet is a close 3rd of 4th)

o.O

I need a credit card... stressed gonk crying  

[Jenudi]

What is everyones opinion on display type. Of course there is a purpose for everything with restraint, but I tend to shy away from using them unless totally necessary.  

[rogue_designer]

Display type usage for me totally depends on what the piece is...

And obviously, how odd the display typeface has gotten - some integrate more nicely than others.

But in a given design, it's rare for me to use more than two typeface families + 1 display face.  

[summer.maes]

When I originally read the thread, I thought for a moment, "Wait a tic, but I liked Papyrus!"

Thankfully, I'm on a computer that has Word so I immediately jumped to it, thinking, "We must be talking about entirely different fonts."

I guess I had just gotten it confused with another font. There's individual elements of Papyrus that I like (I like stressed stuff for some reason), but when I got to actually see it all lying out on the page, I definitely went "ew", and immediately disassociated myself from any mention of the typeface.

There's just too much stuff involved in that typeface all at once.

And as to prices... I'm just glad that there are people in companies that have let me use fonts that are far beyond what a college student can afford. I have bought the occaisonal cheap font, but anything above $20, my wallet cannot consider crying

I'm such a sad artist.  

[Bolweevil]

rogue_designer

$20 for a font is cheap cheap... I've spent as much as $350 on an individual typeface before (including families of bold/narrow/smcaps, etc.)

Back in '98 I spent almost 8k on the entire adobe font library in Multiple Master versions...

Of course, once we switched to OSX I couldn't use any of them anymore. sweatdrop

ITC is tres nice... I really like the newer typefaces being developed by House Industries too (Neutra is one of my favorite sans families ever ... and Chalet is a close 3rd of 4th)

I'm really curious what a $350 typeface looks like.

It must be spectacular to justify the price.  

[Jenudi]

summer.maes

I guess I had just gotten it confused with another font. There's individual elements of Papyrus that I like (I like stressed stuff for some reason), but when I got to actually see it all lying out on the page, I definitely went "ew", and immediately disassociated myself from any mention of the typeface.

I think it's better to just distress a typeface yourself. It's very easy to do, and it makes for a non-repetitive look. Just print out the type and take masking tape to it.

That's the one major thing about distressed type I do not like; the constant look of two exact letters.  

[Jenudi]

Papyrus is way overused as well, and it more often doesn't match the reason to be used. It's a very specific font and I have only seen one instance where it was well done (it was small hehe)