Showing posts with label Font Blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Font Blog. Show all posts
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Sunday, February 10, 2013
What I Hate About Italic Fonts
Today I'm writing a post about what I hate about italic fonts.
This doesn't apply to all italic fonts. Only some. The fonts that don't really have their own italic font; their designer just tilted the letters a little to make it look italic... but also ugly.
(for example, take this font. Copse does not have a good italic base. It's only good for using normally.)
What I hate about those italic fonts is, when you've finally found that awesome, stunning font that is absolutely to die for, when you try to type something in italics the font just explodes in utter failure; the letters are tilted at a bad angle; the font looks... plain; even though there are only a few sentences or words in italic, it ruins the whole page you have written; etc.
The Top 5 Worst Fonts In Italic (out of the good ones) would probably have to include:
(I'll count down from five to build up some suspense)
#4– Copse
Copse is a well designed font, although when italic is used , it turns into a jumble of font crap. The other problem with this font is that if you use it in sizes between 0 and 24 pt, it looks even worse.
#3 - Geo Sans Light
When using fonts based off of Twentieth Century Monotype (commonly referred to as Tw Cen MT) you have to be careful.. this is the closest font I would ever come even close to using. But the italics in this whole family of fonts is just hideous. The lowercase j looks bad enough non italic!
#2 – Blackout
Blackout is a great font when not used in italic. The letters become slim, tilted too much to the right and the tasteful black filled in areas in the letters such as a, b, d, o, p, q and r become just dark pools of dizzying, headache starting bad design.
#1 – Comic Sans MS
Okay, okay. I know I said out of the good fonts... but I just had to rank this one first. Comic Sans MS is the king of bad fontwork - worst regular, italic, underline, bold italic, bold italic underline, you get the point—this font just had to be first. The already distasteful design of the font just worsens with every letter of italic.
This doesn't apply to all italic fonts. Only some. The fonts that don't really have their own italic font; their designer just tilted the letters a little to make it look italic... but also ugly.
(for example, take this font. Copse does not have a good italic base. It's only good for using normally.)
What I hate about those italic fonts is, when you've finally found that awesome, stunning font that is absolutely to die for, when you try to type something in italics the font just explodes in utter failure; the letters are tilted at a bad angle; the font looks... plain; even though there are only a few sentences or words in italic, it ruins the whole page you have written; etc.
The Top 5 Worst Fonts In Italic (out of the good ones) would probably have to include:
(I'll count down from five to build up some suspense)
#5 - Champagne & Limousines
Champagne
& Limousines is a good font, based
off of Century Gothic. But when you try to use italics in this font, it is one
of the worst things you'll ever see in italic font disasters!!! #4– Copse
Copse is a well designed font, although when italic is used , it turns into a jumble of font crap. The other problem with this font is that if you use it in sizes between 0 and 24 pt, it looks even worse.
#3 - Geo Sans Light
When using fonts based off of Twentieth Century Monotype (commonly referred to as Tw Cen MT) you have to be careful.. this is the closest font I would ever come even close to using. But the italics in this whole family of fonts is just hideous. The lowercase j looks bad enough non italic!
#2 – Blackout
Blackout is a great font when not used in italic. The letters become slim, tilted too much to the right and the tasteful black filled in areas in the letters such as a, b, d, o, p, q and r become just dark pools of dizzying, headache starting bad design.
#1 – Comic Sans MS
Okay, okay. I know I said out of the good fonts... but I just had to rank this one first. Comic Sans MS is the king of bad fontwork - worst regular, italic, underline, bold italic, bold italic underline, you get the point—this font just had to be first. The already distasteful design of the font just worsens with every letter of italic.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Ivy and Bean Font*
What is the font from the Ivy and Bean series?
Gosh, I've been asking myself the same question for, like, a MILLION years... but I finally found the answer!
Although fonts Caecilla LTD and Nadia Serif are closely related to the font in Ivy and Bean, the main one, Caecilla is to spacey and light to be good enough to use and Nadia... well, there are no quotation marks, commas, or apostrophes... what kind of a font is that? It has good letters but had a very stupid designer. Adelle Thin and Adelle Light were close, although the font is not worth $65+.
The answer to the question: Candida.
The font in Ivy and Bean is Candida.
*I originally thought the font was Adelle Thin, but after asking the question on the WTF Forum (no, not wtf, but what the font!) a very amazing and kind user named Akira1975 answered my question.
If you would like to visit my Ivy and Bean post, here is the link: http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/forum/case/559396/
If you are wondering about a font, you can posey our own case and because of the fantastic quality of service at What the Font, your question should be answered in a matter of hours... with the right font!
Here is the link to start your own case: http://www.myfonts.com/search/candida/fonts/
You can download Candida from Font Supply free at this link: http://www.fontsupply.com/fonts/C/Candida.html
You should be careful about the advertisements around the download - if you see an add that says anything about a font installer it is a virus... so for you new fonties you have to pay attention to those kind of things. Oh, also - they have a preview of the font at the link too so you can see what Candida looks like AND you can download it at the same time!
Sorry about that little glitch.. Adelle Thin is very similar to the Ivy and Bean font, except the one difference that really sprang out at me was the g in both fonts. In font picking I usually pay attention to the lowercase g, y, q and p.. because the curves and lines in them are very distinctive to me. The y in Adelle was similar although the g was rounded.
Adelle Bold and Adelle Bold Italic are avaliable for free download... the other fonts (around 14 to 20, depending on the website) are priced from $29 to about $70... the link below is for the download of Adelle Bold and Adelle Bold Italic. It is a nice font although it's a little expensive for my taste.
http://www.type-together.com/index.php?action=portal/viewContent&cntId_content=3000&id_section=166 (takes a little longer due to having to put in a code).
note: freepremiumfonts.blogspot.ca has lots of popups and advertisements as soon as you click on the link to the website... it is one of the first results although it is just a big scam! They don't actually let you download any fonts - I would recommend avoiding it.
Well, that's one more question me and all the font searchers can stop asking themselves. Phew! No more whenever I go looking for fonts, What is the font from Ivy and Bean?
If you haven't heard of Ivy and Bean or Adelle Thin, you can check out both of them here:
Ivy and Bean Book Series: http://www.anniebarrows.com/ivyandbean/
Candida Preview: http://www.myfonts.com/search/candida/fonts/
*updated version of previous post
Gosh, I've been asking myself the same question for, like, a MILLION years... but I finally found the answer!
Although fonts Caecilla LTD and Nadia Serif are closely related to the font in Ivy and Bean, the main one, Caecilla is to spacey and light to be good enough to use and Nadia... well, there are no quotation marks, commas, or apostrophes... what kind of a font is that? It has good letters but had a very stupid designer. Adelle Thin and Adelle Light were close, although the font is not worth $65+.
The answer to the question: Candida.
The font in Ivy and Bean is Candida.
*I originally thought the font was Adelle Thin, but after asking the question on the WTF Forum (no, not wtf, but what the font!) a very amazing and kind user named Akira1975 answered my question.
If you would like to visit my Ivy and Bean post, here is the link: http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/forum/case/559396/
If you are wondering about a font, you can posey our own case and because of the fantastic quality of service at What the Font, your question should be answered in a matter of hours... with the right font!
Here is the link to start your own case: http://www.myfonts.com/search/candida/fonts/
You can download Candida from Font Supply free at this link: http://www.fontsupply.com/fonts/C/Candida.html
You should be careful about the advertisements around the download - if you see an add that says anything about a font installer it is a virus... so for you new fonties you have to pay attention to those kind of things. Oh, also - they have a preview of the font at the link too so you can see what Candida looks like AND you can download it at the same time!
Sorry about that little glitch.. Adelle Thin is very similar to the Ivy and Bean font, except the one difference that really sprang out at me was the g in both fonts. In font picking I usually pay attention to the lowercase g, y, q and p.. because the curves and lines in them are very distinctive to me. The y in Adelle was similar although the g was rounded.
Adelle Bold and Adelle Bold Italic are avaliable for free download... the other fonts (around 14 to 20, depending on the website) are priced from $29 to about $70... the link below is for the download of Adelle Bold and Adelle Bold Italic. It is a nice font although it's a little expensive for my taste.
http://www.type-together.com/index.php?action=portal/viewContent&cntId_content=3000&id_section=166 (takes a little longer due to having to put in a code).
note: freepremiumfonts.blogspot.ca has lots of popups and advertisements as soon as you click on the link to the website... it is one of the first results although it is just a big scam! They don't actually let you download any fonts - I would recommend avoiding it.
Well, that's one more question me and all the font searchers can stop asking themselves. Phew! No more whenever I go looking for fonts, What is the font from Ivy and Bean?
If you haven't heard of Ivy and Bean or Adelle Thin, you can check out both of them here:
Ivy and Bean Book Series: http://www.anniebarrows.com/ivyandbean/
Candida Preview: http://www.myfonts.com/search/candida/fonts/
*updated version of previous post
Sunday, February 3, 2013
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