Comments on: Finding the Right Font for a Design Job

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:17:42 +0000

I just came across this site for picking fonts: http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/products/font-picker/

By: Trevor Collins

Trevor Collins — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:26:15 +0000

It was all so much easer for my farther. He would simply go to one of the type cabinets, pull out a dray and show it ti his customer. He had nearly 20 fonts for them to chose from which was an unheard of range for the small community he served.

Choice sometimes makes thinks harder not easer.

By: stencils

stencils — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:35:23 +0000

James, depend on your reader font knowlegde , but my suggest is don’t use any font that hard to read because it can make reader confusion ,for paragraph you can use san seriff like calibri, arial, etc. i did’t say unusual fonts is bad, but better to use normal font.

By: James Chia

James Chia — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:52:08 +0000

Would some of my readers face problems reading my blog if I use abstract fonts or some unusual fonts?

By: TheUprock.com!

TheUprock.com! — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:44:24 +0000

I just started using Linotype’s FontExplorer, and I’m in love. It is by and far, the most powerful font browser I’ve used to date, and what’s more, I can add notes to any font specimen or family, which I find to be really really handy, because I can finally ditch my huge text file of font notes, and import it all right into FontExplorer. I can also browser Linotype’s online foundry of families, and purchase them directly from the app if I wish.

FontExplorer is definitely worth checking out, and sounds like a viable long-term solution to some of the issues you addressed in this post.

By: Tara1

Tara1 — Sat, 12 May 2007 07:46:43 +0000

Thanks LaurenMarie, Some good tips there

By: LaurenMarie

LaurenMarie — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:03:25 +0000

Kind of related, if you know the style of font you want and you have a sample image, upload it to http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/. Alternatively, you can take a quiz at http://www.identifont.com/identify.html to help you identify a font if you already have a brief idea of what you want.

By: Armen : : iffect.net

Armen : : iffect.net — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:33:41 +0000

I went to UrbanFonts.com for my recent choice of fonts on my blog header. I found them to be pretty good, but I lack experience to order to compare accurately.

By: Tara1

Tara1 — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:53:49 +0000

Hi Randa

That program looks great, I like the way it looks like you can organise your fonts by style too. I wish they had it for mac too.

By: Randa Clay

Randa Clay — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:35:12 +0000

Choosing the right font always takes me forever too! I use a program called The Font Thing, that works great for quickly viewing your desired text in all the fonts available on your machine.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft.html