Comments on: Sunday Seven: Feelings About Fonts

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:57:48 +0000

Früüüüüüütiger! There are a few ways to do diacriticals in these comment windows. I do them by using the abcTajpu extension for Firefox, which is easy as can beezy. Another way to go would be to use a little HTML for the special character. Don't know HTML? Don't worry about it. All you do is bookmark Jim Rutherford's XHTML Character Entity Reference page, and refer to it to get the HTML entity you need when you're putting in a special character. So for example, when you then type in Göttedämmerung, it will render as Göttedämmerung. Similarly, typing in Frütiger comes out as Frütiger, and so forth. It's a little crunchy, but very do-able.

By: Serge

Serge — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:37:16 +0000

I know a Brian Frutiger–a lovely tenor. He prounounces his last name in a very northern midwest-ish sort of way (mit kein umlaut). . . (BTW, how the hell do you do diacriticals in these comment windows anyway?) But, I have to agree, it’s fun to say.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:34:36 +0000

Thanks for playing, Derek.

Of the serifs listed, Garamond is definitely my favorite as well; it’s also the primary font Apple uses in its advertising, so maybe that helps, too.

Bodoni is the typeface that CBS uses in its signature. It’s a very classy typeface, but because its thin lines are SO thin, it makes it sometimes hard to read.

Thanks for the list of seven worst fonts, too! That might make a good question for next week!