Tuesday, 13 April 2010

family chit-chat

Daniel Maclise (1811 - 1870)

Caxton Showing the First Specimen of His Printing
to King Edward IV at the Almonry, Westminster.



MissM
The thing that annoys me about Word2007
is the default font
which is Calibri (Body).


MrsM
Oh..yes! I completely understand – I love Arial.


MissM
Book Antiqua is the cool font.


MrsM
Courier makes me feel happy.


MissM
Sometimes I use Palatino Linotype;
it depends on what sort of day it is.


MrM
I’m a Times New Roman kind of guy.

26 comments:

Ali Honey said...

Oh I like Comic MS sans because it is closest to my own handwriting.

Jen said...

One of the first things that attracted me to LB was his font (Palatino).

BreadBox said...

Ah, yes. Font issues. The "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin" debate of our time.
Stix is due out any day now, though....

anne bebbington said...

MrM sounds like Mr Bebbs :o) Solid, dependable and a little bit traditional - bless him - I feel I've always known him

Lucille said...

Trebuchet from my limited palette on the blog but there's the right face for every occasion. It used to take us ages to choose them when designing books although more often than not we ended up with Helvetica for the pre-school list.

Paola said...

What sign is MissM? I ALWAYS use her same fonts (except I really Colibri as well).
Me, Taurus.
MrM, I wouldn't have expected anything else from you.

Ali said...

I had Mr M pegged as a Times New Roman man. And you thought the punctuation post would get people going.....

M said...

I love Calibri. What's wrong with Calibri?

kristina said...

We were required to use Times New Roman in school, and now I'm afraid I'm set for life... K x

Monica said...

seriff fonts are meant to be easier to read. sans seriff are more modern...

I'm a bit of a font tart, it depends on the mood!1

Thomas said...

Sean Jennett in his deinitive book on printing considers Baskerville the noblest of typefaces.

GMS said...

But it all depends on what it looks like in italic, which is what I use when pretending (to myself)that it looks like a handwritten letter.
Word verification :- pecoea. not a font I recognise.

Menopausal musing said...

My name's Cathy, and I am a font junky............

Anonymous said...

Card inserts, notes to friends it has to be Papyrus for me - very 1930's. Business letters, however, Times New Roman. Do we have a psychologist amongst us? Bobby x

driftwood said...

and then of course there's the font size to consider, some of them come out very small, so do you go up a font size to compensate. off to go and find out what font my blog is set to, I am ashamed to say I don't know, and clearly this is remiss of me x

MrM said...

O fons Bandusiae, splendidior vitro ....

knew a thing or two did Horace. Definitely a Times Old Roman kind of guy though

WV: caliz

blackbird said...

Clearly MissM has her finger on the pulse.

peppermintpatcher said...

I secretly love to download fonts - not to use, just to hoard. Angelina is a current favourite.

Gina said...

I'm an Ariel sort of girl too!

Jackie said...

We are all font freaks at heart.Its when you do the i-spy thing as vans pass you on the motorway with their company logos that you know this.

readersguide said...

Ha!
I like Times New Roman, too, and I also dislike Calibri. I have a fondness for serifs.

Thomas said...

If GMS is looking for an elegant italic I always used to favour Bembo (both in Roman and italic). I even had our wedding invitations and service sheets printed in Bembo many years ago! However, it is not so much seen these days.

MrM said...

good old Wikipedia ...


"More recently, Bembo is the typeface used for volumes in the Everyman's Library series. It is also the principal typeface in the Rough Guides series of travel books"

Lynne said...

A subject close to so many hearts obviously - there's even a few films about it: http://www.helveticafilm.com/ and http://independentnortherncreative.org/

For me it's Century Gothic at work and, like Driftwood, I have no idea what my blog is set to - still a work in (slow) progress you see.

Poshyarns said...

Ha ha, we too have conversations like that, the Technical Advisor once worked in the print industry, he has very strong views on font. I do believe he has some very special, extra fonts stored somewhere on this machine. But they aren't for the likes of me, only available to those who really, truly understand and appreciate.

The Coffee Lady said...

My husband is a font geek. I'll send him round.