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This blog was established for the Typography 3 students of Kendall College of Art + Design.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

more overused fonts?

we already know that using papyrus and comic sans is a mortal sin, but i feel like there are some more typefaces that i wouldn't mind seeing less of.

optima is getting used too much. i used to think it was an ok typeface, but it's starting to look really dated.

zapfino! the default fancy typeface. to me zapfino has always been as bad as papyrus. the ascenders and descenders get all tangled and it takes up a crap load of space.

cracked! the default "grunge font." ugh just don't use it.

how does everyone else feel about this? 
what other typefaces should people abstain from using?

1 Comments:

At 2:20 PM, Blogger Michael Kleinpaste said...

I also Strongly dislike 'grunge fonts'. I tend to not read anything in a font that is cracked, split, braking, or whatever; these fonts give me the feeling they are about to collapse and fall apart and if the copy was set in a font about to fall apart what dose that say about the copy.

 

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