Comments on: 20 Typefaces To Start A Designer’s Career

By: amit

amit — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:17:58 +0000

Fantastic article for web design beginners.I believe all beginners ll like this article and use it like a beginners guide.
thanks!

By: Carrie

Carrie — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:06:14 +0000

Thanks for the list of free fonts! It’s really a great help for me..

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I don’t like Bauer Bodoni and Didot

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By: arthur

arthur — Sun, 03 May 2009 21:39:51 +0000

copperplate sucks

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By: DesignNerd

DesignNerd — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:32:45 +0000

I do agree that a lot of the free fonts are pretty poor quality although recently i have found a few lovely ones i.e Fontin Sans……I have used it in a recent logo design and many people have commented on how beautiful the font is.
Thanks for the post!

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By: J.T. Shaver

J.T. Shaver — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:18:09 +0000

Avenir should DEFINITELY be on that list. And I would never want to use Copperplate Gothic. It’s a copout font for law firms.

By: birdyoshi

birdyoshi — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:53:42 +0000

To modify your argument, I would say “learn about typography and decide for yourself which fonts are better than others”.

Don’t listen to the folks who say you MUST use fonts from the design dinosaurs. When those dinosaurs were your age they designed their own, didn’t they?

Every medium has an industry, whose greatest purpose is to protect itself, and keep earning regular profits the old way. Web design has gotten that way. Next time you’re at a $1000 web design conference, ask the presenter if they actually make websites for profitable companies, and they’ll look confused – because now, our web standards all-stars make money from giving lectures… not from making websites.

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By: Aaron Poisson

Aaron Poisson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:14:09 +0000

Thanks very much for the insight. Most of the top 7 I have used in my graphic design work. I’m still a student but am also the Art Director for a production company, so learning about typography is crucial to my design work, for there is a myriad of poor graphic design floating around. much of which is ruined by by poor typographical decisions.

Best Regards,
Aaron

By: Romina Panetta

Romina Panetta — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:49:52 +0000

I see where you are coming from with having a small selection of fonts, as 1000s of fonts can be a nightmare to handle, however I would NEVER and I say NEVER use times new roman! Seriously I think it should be banned from the design world forever! And in saying that maybe even banned from everywhere. It is an illegal design decision in my books.

Please don’t take offence. Good idea for a post though.

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By: Paddy

Paddy — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:08:16 +0000

Thanks for the list. I always struggle when choosing a font. I’m trying to dedicate more time to making a decision and this list definitely helps

Cheers!

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By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:39:28 +0000

Gotham FTW

By: Alejandra

Alejandra — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:43:07 +0000

Being free or paid is not the problem, as there is excellent abd free design work out there (as well as paid of course).
The problem is not letting technology rule your design life meaning that you feel like you need to have everything under the sun, new soft, new computer, new gadgets, get your hands on everything you can download.
Good design is about knowing how to use some key resources rather than everything in your hard drive.

By: cardeo

cardeo — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:29:27 +0000

I say you cut that list down to 10 to start. if you are a new designer. and where is DIN?

By: Jacob Cass

Jacob Cass — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:07:13 +0000

Hoof, Malene,
Thank you for your feedback into what fonts you would change. Please take note that I didn’t personally create the list, it was just one of many ‘20 typeface lists’ suggested by users in the Typophile discussion.

Hanabi,
I am also a fan of Meta and Din. Thanks for the suggestions.

David,
Bet it made you smile though!

Mali,
Typography is a subject of its own, but as designers it is our duty to know it as well as the basics of design.

Jamie,
Thanks for the font conference video, that was hilarious. I had to watch it twice, there were so many hidden jokes!

Jimmy, Kishor, Farid, Funkysouth, Matt T, Marvin, Richard, Matt, Bridgette, Tiff, John, Jimmy, Niero,
Thank you for your comments.

Chris,
Please take note that I didn’t personally create the list, it was just one of many ‘20 typeface lists’ suggested by users in the Typophile discussion.

Gerard,
Thanks for the typo, fixed that up.

Seth,
See my comment below to Jim.

Jim
The article was not stating that you must be restricted to using these typefaces… it was merely stating some recommendations on what typefaces to choose as a starting designer.

Half those fonts are so dated that most ad agencies remove them from their servers. Garamond, Times New Roman, Mrs Eaves, Bauer Bodoni, Clarendon, Rockwell? Cmon, seriously?

I would like you to list these agencies as I find this very hard to believe.

Trajan is a very flexible font and can be used in many applications and that is the downfall of Trajan… it is seen everywhere… but that is not to say don’t use it.

Blam,
Please take note that I didn’t personally create the list, it was just one of many ‘20 typeface lists’ suggested by users in the Typophile discussion. Copperplate Gothic can be used in a variety of places and looks great on stationery and printed material however it is overly misused and that is the problem with Copperplate Gothic in my opinion. You may want to know about this site: http://ihatecopperplate.blogspot.com/

James,
That is a good stratedgy to use (pre approved typefaces) – in fact the list mentioned in this article is from a “pre approved list” for a design school.

Thanks for your replacements also, they are some very valid choices.

Carla,
Sounds interesting Carla… I am not so sure if I agree with using just 4 fonts but it is a good way to get students to respect and learn fonts. That Chinese proverb comes to mind… “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, feed him for life.”

Jive, Josh, B, Victor, Stuart,
See my comment to Blam.

Jason,
Please don’t get me started on Papyrus… it is the most common font I see used in my design school by first year students, along with Helvetica (mostly being misused).

I also agree that it is important for new (and all) designers to break out of the list (eventually).

Thank you for the link to the font package, I hadn’t known about that. 25 type families… interesting.

Josh,
Thank you for your extended list Josh… some very excellent choices, I mention a lot of them in the article 30 best fonts for designers.

I wasn’t aware of the font KnockOut, which one are you referring to? I found a few. A link would be great. I wasn’t aware of Serpentine nor Rotis so thank you for the mentions. News Gothic was mentioned instead of Trade Gothic. I also don’t mind Myriad… I used it recently in a business card.

Charles,
Thank you for your opinions Charles, there are certainly two sides of every story. Also thank you for your more refined selection of 20 typefaces for designers.

Then again, this is a comment on a blog entry: I wouldn’t base my typographic career on something that someone offhandedly said in such a context.

Well said, but it is a good starting point.

By: Niero

Niero — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:29:54 +0000

When you need to be fat and loud, consider Zurich.

I prefer Mrs. Eaves to some of the serifs mentioned.

Kudos for suggesting Minion.

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