30 Essential Typefaces for A Lifetime
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.
posted by Jonathan at
10/24/2009 11:00:00 p.m.
4 Comments:
Futura, Times New Roman, Courier, Lucida (Sans), Myriad, Trajan, Adobe Garamond & Caslon, Bell Gothic.
Most 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!
By
hemogoblin, at 10/25/2009 12:45 a.m.
John - Lucky guy!
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Jonathan, at 10/25/2009 12:56 a.m.
I have even less than you (7). Futura, Gill Sans, Helvetica, Bodoni, Courier, Lucida, Times New Roman.
I 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
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Thomas David Baker, at 10/28/2009 11:00 p.m.
@font-face looks cool, Tom.
Actually 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.
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Jonathan, at 10/28/2009 11:08 p.m.
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