Favorite Fonts

Titles

• Gotham (NYT, Gothamist)
  • Nevis
• Whitney
• Akzidenz-Grotesk Medium Condensed (book cover font)
• Hoefler Titling [serif]

Headers

• Gill Sans: I don't know why, but I am absolutely in love with this font. It has a hidden beauty that comes out on my screen at smaller sizes (a hidden treat!). Bringhurst says "Books have been set successfully in Gill Sans, though it requires a sure sense of color and measure." I'd dearly love to see such a book. (Some critic think Gill screwed up. Of their alternatives, only Granby seems at all comparable.)
• Avenir (identi) / Avenir Next
• Myriad (MyFonts)
• Lisboa (nameplate)

Body Text

Print (Serif)

• Fournier (brilliant italic and small caps)
• Sabon Next
• ETBembo

• Spira: very nice as well
• Golden Cockerel: my new favorite? It would be fitting if both my top fonts were by Eric Gill.
• Mrs Eaves: This is definitely my favorite serif. It's well-built (with oldstyle figures, small caps (even petite caps!) and an elegant italic) but still has enough character to make it enjoyable. I haven't looked at pages of type set in it yet, so it might not work out, but I'm certainly attracted to it. I first saw it on the Blind Faith Café menu (2002-12-23), and got its name thru WhatTheFont.
• Electra LH (more)
• Minion
• Bembo
• Palatino Roman / Aldus Roman
• Birka
• Georgia (MyFonts, Mac/Win, Linux)
• Goodchild (Jenson, Iowa...)

Screen (Sans)

• Sys?
• Verdana (channel, MyFonts, Mac/Win, Linux)
• Tiresias

Numbers

• Claimcheck

Tiny

• Sys?
• Bell Centennial (MyFonts)

Grunge

• Morphica
• Refrigerator
• Trade01
• Mayo

Pixel

• Susan Kare: Small Fonts
• Silkscreen
• Atari Classic
• Datum (MyFonts)
• Pixelade
• OCR A (MyFonts)
• Synchro

Dingbats

• Combi Symbols (MyFonts) / Combi Symbols PDA (MyFonts)
• Lithium

Mono

• MPW (compare, download) - deep-fried curly braces
• ProFont / Mishawaka (compare, download)
• TheSans Mono
• Pragmata

Swash

• Platthand

If you have a font that you think I might like, send me an email.