Warm and fuzzy fonts that sound like salami

[koalathebear]

I was doing my notes for my project management class in Word and noticed that the default font is no longer Times New Roman. Instead, it was something called "Calibri". Even the font-savvy Canadian had never heard of Calibri.

Therefore, I of course had to Google this strange new visitor to my word processor. Wikipedia had this to say ...

Comments

[bluebanrigh]

I noticed that too, I don't know why but it freaked me out the first time and I had to change it back to Times New Roman. Stupid I know.

[petitevanou]

wow, I must have calibri as a default font and never noticed, I am obviously blind to its round and warm fuzziness .... although when I do graphics, the font choice is really important. don't you love wiki and the Internet in general, you get so much info you didn't even know you wanted :)

[theyllek]

Calibri, you suck :p It just more Times than Comic Sans

I say this because we have people who submit art to us in MSWord (which is just wrong) and all typeset in Calibri, which we do not have outside of the one computer with the new office on it. our attempts to migrate it to other computers has failed

Fonts are actually a *really big* thing. font packages get expensives, and they can come after your for copyrights or something if you are using fonts you don't have a license for.

Uni has an entire class on Typography. I didn't take it because for my program it was an elective.... one that was 5 days a week at 8am.... yeah wasn't gonna happen. And no fear, designing a font is way tooo much thinking involved!!!

Our favourites at work are Helvetica Black/CondensedBlack, Antique Olive, Frutiger, Futura, Arial Black, and Garamond. Of course we do a lot of fast layouts for signs and banners so we use lots of boring fonts :D We like when we get to play around for a change!

*looks down* I think My Geek is hanging out.

[forg]

I do type a lot in comic sans but that is because it is the closest font to NSW Foundation Writing I can get if I am on a computer that does not have that font installed for me to type out handouts for my students ;)

[hay_nako]

Never heard of Calibri either, but yeah Typogaphy is important for graphic designers. There are websites where people share their own fonts, and most of it is free. It's like font heaven, I love it. To be caught using Comic Sans, Papyrus or Monotype Corsiva these days is like a crime. It's quite amusing to find people who are critical with font types.