So here’s my tip of font using in graphic design. I made this list of fonts I suggest to be used more often and fonts I suggest to be used less often. Especially from Helvetica to Gill Sans, they are really popular fonts to be used by professional designers. They all work finely whether in graphic design, web design or typography.
From Rockwell to Parisish, they are fonts to be used in typography or artworks, mostly for vintage style. They are probably not suitable in some formal occasions. But they will be your good choice when you want to make a fancy coffee shop banner.
You might be surprised that Arial and Times New Roman are in my less used list. But don’t stop using them in your homework and essay- well, now you probably understand why you shouldn’t put them in your graphic works.
The rest of the fonts are what I constantly see people using in their graphic works and I must say that even tho those fonts look cool and fancy, they actually don’t look as quality as you think.
BUT, that doesn’t mean you should delete these fonts from your computer (oh but delete Comic Sans for God’s sake) They can still be used for certain situation, as long as you handle them well. However, please never do something like using Colors of Autumn as the title and Typewriter as the concept, unless you’re trying to drive someone crazy.
whoever made this clearly doesn’t work as a graphic designer or this list is almost 5 or 6 years old and was made like the week after hf&j (rip) released archer and it needs to be updated because if i see one more god damn thing done in archer i’m going to puke. archer is the new comic sans. that fucking font was beautiful and great and i loved it and then everyone and their god damn mom jumped on top of it and used it for everything and destroyed it.
if a font could ever go viral, it’s archer. archer is the avocado green appliance of the font world. archer is the beehive hairdo. the acid washed jeans. it was too trendy for its own good and when you see something done in archer, it’s SO FUCKING DATED. which is a straight up tragedy because the font is less than 10 years old and BEAUTIFULLY designed. but when WELLS FARGO did their brand in archer and MY LOCAL FUCKING NEWSPAPER redid their brand in archer…. it jumped the shark. i still mourn that font. it was so great, and you killed it. you blew it up.
and if you can HONESTLY explain to me why helvetica is better than arial, we’ll talk. because everyone “knows” this, but no one seems to know this. and let’s be honest. helvetica’s capital R is garbage and arial definitely wins on that one. but seriously. if you can, without looking it up, tell me why arial is bad, then i’ll allow you to keep this on your list. tbh i don’t even use either of these fonts, lato is far superior to both.
and wow, really, it’s 2014, are we still doing the OMGLOL COMIC SANS IS BAD thing because yeah, i get it, you know everything about typography because you hopped on an eight year old bandwagon and are still beating this dead horse *slow clap* good for you, you know ONE font that BY THE WAY ISN’T EVEN THAT BAD THE ONLY REASON IT IS THE BANE OF ANYONE’S EXISTENCE IS BECAUSE IT’S SO MISUSED. someone talking shit about comic sans is a red flag that this person a) is a freshman art student who just took a couple design classes or b) living under a rock and thinks it’s still 2006.
this whole list reeks of “art student” with no real-world design experience. there’s nothing wrong with art students, they just don’t really have the knowledge to comment on current trends in the industry and that is extremely obvious in this terrible roundup of fonts.
there are so many problems with this list. almost ALL of the “recommended” fonts are fonts that need to not be used anymore because they are so over done. avante garde needs to go. it’s played out and over used.
trajan and trajan pro? unless you’re making a poster for star wars episodes 1-3, try again. there’s hundreds of thousands of beautiful serifs out there, just waiting for you to discover them.
i cannot think of any wide use for riesling, why the hell is that on here? in fact, most of the display fonts on this list shouldn’t be on the list. they’re all situational at best and shouldn’t be “used more”.
georgia is a screen font, it shouldn’t be used in print design, though i suppose digital applications are by and far the majority of work being done these days, i just wanted to clarify this since this font is NOT great in print.
you want to talk about fonts that actually need to stop being used? aside from archer, because god damn yall fucking ruined that one.
let’s put curlz mt on there. this font is terrible on all fronts. terrible letterforms, terrible kerning, terrible terrible terrible.
scriptina. every motherfucker uses scriptina when they want their font to look elegant. guess what. THIS IS THE WORST SCRIPT FONT EVER MADE. if you use this font, you have automatically ruined whatever you’re doing. every artist and photographer using this font needs to just stop, back away, and try again.
bleeding cowbow. oh my god. burn it with fire.
lucida hand, kristen itc, bradley hand itc — more terrible handwriting fonts that are over used and not good fonts.