{"id":216,"date":"2007-05-29T10:12:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T10:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/sakufu\/2007\/05\/29\/these_are_a_few\/"},"modified":"2007-05-29T10:12:23","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T10:12:23","slug":"these_are_a_few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/2007\/05\/29\/these_are_a_few\/","title":{"rendered":"These are a few of my favorite fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspired by a previous article about Helvetica<\/a>, Slate asked a bunch of authors about their favorite fonts<\/a>. Andrew Vachss uses Courier? Fascinating. I stick with Times New Roman when I fire up a word processor because I’m just too lazy to change the default, but for things web, I’ve pretty much stuck with Verdana<\/a>, Tahoma<\/a> or Trebuchet MS<\/a>. Yeah, I know — so 2002.<\/p>\n

With the cover art for Eponymous 4<\/a>, I use the fonts that come with Microsoft Windows, particularly the system fonts used in software interfaces. Chalk that up to laziness as well, but I like the idea of putting system fonts in another context.<\/p>\n

Restraint<\/a><\/em> employs Lucida Console<\/a>, which is the font used for the Blue Screen of Death<\/a>, while Imprint<\/a><\/em> uses Lucida Sans Unicode<\/a>. I believe Lucida Sans Unicode is the default font when you launch Notepad. A Ghost in My Shadow<\/a><\/em> features 20th Century<\/a> (Tw Cen MT), while Revulsion<\/a><\/em> makes do with Century Gothic<\/a>. I think the only non-Microsoft font I use with any regularity is Friz Quadrata<\/a>, most famously featured as the typeface on Law & Order<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’m particularly fascinated by the typeface used in the New York City subway system. According to this debate<\/a>, Helvetica is used for the more recent signs, but a variation of Akzidenz-Grotesk<\/a> named Standard Medium<\/a> was used in the ’60s and ’70s. (Link actually points to Standard.)<\/p>\n

When I was a kid — had to be when I was around 4 or 5 years old — I was endlessly fascinated by street signs. Back then, the way color conveyed message spoke to me somehow, and I have a strange fondness for the typeface of highway signs. There is no actual typeface for highway signs, just a a set of federally-mandated specifications<\/a>. Blue Highway<\/a> is often cited as the computer font of choice to emulate a highway sign, but back in 2004, the federal government sanctioned ClearviewHwy<\/a> as an official alternative.<\/p>\n

I’m no typegeek by any stretch of the imagination, but I’m sure if other things didn’t distract me, I could very well have become one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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