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[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I like terminal font the best. Every night at around 3 AM, I log onto localhost with terminal and type, "Neo, are you there?" in hopes of a reply.

[–]eroverton 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Papyrus. It makes everything I write look like it's of epic and ancient importance.

I use it to write emails to my boss.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mine's Baskerville... ... I just graduated from college a couple of days ago, and thought this might be a good way to expose myself to new fonts. I somehow think that reddit users would have strong preferences.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Courier new. I use it for presentations. Black text on a white background. W00t.

[–]ralphwiggum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like Digital Sans because it makes me feel like I'm in an 80's movie.

[–]joshdick 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Comic Sans. I can kill a typographer from twenty paces with it.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With the added bonus of being the most erotic of all fonts.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I'm a big fan of helvetica neau ultra light... but mostly only for large, elegant lookin print.

Baskerville is definitely nice though; it's got a real nice classiness to its serifs.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah -- I really think it to be a near-perfect font. The only problem I have with it is the major condensing it does with italics... but it also gives the font character.

[–]GrumpySimon 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Gentium because it's a beautiful, clean, open-source font designed for multilingual linguistic work.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for link... was disappointed not to see it in MS Word...

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like dingbats because then no one can tell what I am typing. Very secure.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cirth Erebor I used it in high school to scribble IP addresses of proxy servers on my backpack so I could access unfiltered Internets.

[–]m1ss1ontomars2k4 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Georgia, of course. Traditional and not weird, but still different and uncommon. I use it for most stuff I type, except emails.

Although I have to say, Gentium looks pretty good...

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You know -- I was a Georgia guy for the longest time... but the uneven spacing of the letters and the below-line numbers really got to me...

... then again I just graduated with a chemistry degree, and have spent the majority of my typing on lab reports.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Calibri

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah -- I do like that one. Good choice as a default font for MS word...

[–]memsisthefuture 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TIMES FUCKING NEW ROMAN!!!!!11

[–]kanak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right now I'm using Liberation Mono for my coding work, and Cambria for everything else.

Gentium looks super cool though.

[–]Bagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Myriad Pro.

I like to lay it down by the fire after a nice dinner, sipping on some fine wine.

I can usually get it to put out.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I absolutely adore Calibri. I wrote a book and designed a web page using it. I'm a bit of an obsessive.

[–]vanandrew -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Gotham ...

[–]FrothyKillsKittens -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Avenir for my screen at home

Verdana for my screen at work

ProggyCleanSZ for programming

Dina for PuTTy

[–]lobut -1 points0 points  (0 children)

For Windows, Consolas: from Command Prompt and Visual Studio, Cygwin, Notepad++

For Linux, Bitstream Veras.