It’s been a couple of weeks now … has anybody noticed that I’ve changed my font here to Century Gothic? I also changed the width to fluid up to a maximum of 1075 pixels (it was 1270 before), though only people with 17″+ widescreens would notice any difference. CG has been my favourite font for years. I love the roundness of it and think it looks quite elegant. I use it on all my other blogs and, since making the font change here, casa az feels a lot more like “my place”. Now if I could just figure out how to get rid of that damned blue background in my comments…
What’s your favourite font?
casa azahar 
I don’t really care as long as it is readable.
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I like Arial for most online writing, and Blackadder for fancy stuff. I don’t really notice the difference, even with my 17″ screen, but then I have a couple of sidebars that take up some room.
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Arial Black, because I can see it (about 22 point), and Franklin Gothic for variety.
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I have a variety of favorites for different things. For writing and for viewing, I use Arial. I hate it when people at work decide to complicate things and use some font like Shruti for a form document instead of Arial which we normally use for ALL documents. Because when you copy and paste and don’t notice you get in heck for “using the wrong font”. And God forbid you should change the font for a specific document.
I HATE Times New Roman.
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On Shadow (15.4″ screen) I now have an inch or so margin on either side of the sidbars. Before it filled up the screen no matter what size screen, with the middle bit getting narrower or wider. I actually haven’t checked to see how different it looks on Sexy Beast’s 17″ screen, though I suspect there will be two inch margins with the text in the middle the same as on Shadow.
I’d never seen Franklin Gothic or Blackadder before – just had a quick google. FC looks very similar to CG, but without the round a’s.
“I HATE Times New Roman.”
Aack. Me too. It’s hideous.
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It is elegant and it sits on the screen well.
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Asking a person who minored in editorial/type design which is her favorite font is like asking her
to pick a favorite child. 😉
However, one font that’s been a favorite for special application is Mistral: http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/detail.asp?pid=201684
I can’t imagine a blog full of it, though! One font I really dislike, and find it in blogs and other internet writing all the time, is Verdana–it’s artificially wider, so although it’s easy enough on the eyes, it makes 250 words take up the space of 300. I write too much for that!
I noticed you’d switched to Century Gothic as soon as I logged in; I’ve often used CG myself.
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Glad you like it, mister anchovy. 🙂
Verdana is the font this blog used to have, Gaelen.
Mistral – like Blackadder – is very whimsical. I can see it being fun for a special application but, as you say, not an entire blog of it.
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I love Century Gothic too! But try this one: font-family: “Century Gothic”, “Avant Garde”, Avenir, Verdana, sans-serif; (see: http://romy.tetue.net/century-gothic).
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