My bro recently blogged about the book 30 Essential Typefaces for A Lifetime which is a survey of 30 important typefaces.
Here’s the list. The ones installed on my computer (woefully few) are in bold:
- Sans-serifs: Akzidenz Grotesk, Avenir, Bell Centennial, Bell Gothic, DIN, Franklin Gothic, Frutiger, Futura, Gill Sans, Helvetica, Meta, Myriad, Trade Gothic, Univers and Vag Rounded.
- Serifs: Adobe Caslon, Adobe Garamond, Bembo, Bodoni, Clarendon, Courier, Excelsior, Lucida, Minion, Perpetua, Sabon, Stempel Schneidler, Times New Roman, Trajan and Walbaum.
I hope you have more of these gems than I do.
Futura, Times New Roman, Courier, Lucida (Sans), Myriad, Trajan, Adobe Garamond & Caslon, Bell Gothic.
ReplyDeleteMost of these were installed with Photoshop or Windows. I still have to find a decent Helvetica that works on Windows with ClearType..
great blog btw!
John - Lucky guy!
ReplyDeleteI have even less than you (7). Futura, Gill Sans, Helvetica, Bodoni, Courier, Lucida, Times New Roman.
ReplyDeleteI think the reason for this is that we are web people and the web doesn't really do fonts.
That could change. The last year or so has seen @font-face support from several browsers, although the IE implementation remains different to the others.
http://jontangerine.com/log/2008/10/font-face-in-ie-making-web-fonts-work
@font-face looks cool, Tom.
ReplyDeleteActually my brother bought some Adobe design software and got a *ton* of fonts—whole bunch of Helvetica weights, for example. And Trajan. And dozens of other really good Adobe ones.