Typophile - What are the most popular fonts in your country? - Comments

You can now see the Channel

vinceconnare — Fri, 8 Dec 2006 05:41:56 -0800

You can now see the Channel 4/This is a Knife special and the Comical Euri weekend wrapup on my blog.

and This is a Knife has been UK only and changed to only one presenter (boohoo). You can see there somethings on their Myspace account.

Hi Dan! ChrisL

dezcom — Thu, 7 Dec 2006 15:59:13 -0800

Hi Dan!

ChrisL

Because of web pages the

Dan Weaver — Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:36:58 -0800

Because of web pages the verdon arial helvetica or georgia etc. I suspect these are the newest offenders

I was heading over to a

Linda Cunningham — Thu, 7 Dec 2006 12:12:00 -0800

I was heading over to a meeting this morning and at one intersection, three of the four corners had signs in Benguiat. Talk about over-saturation!

Thanks Nick! I like the

dezcom — Thu, 7 Dec 2006 06:34:01 -0800

Thanks Nick! I like the stained glass with the rest of the building.

ChrisL

Here it’s Times New Roman

spirelli — Thu, 7 Dec 2006 06:14:17 -0800

Here it’s Times New Roman and Arial.

Chris, take a look at this

Nick Cooke — Wed, 6 Dec 2006 07:31:50 -0800

Chris, take a look at this little beauty from Prague; I think it’s trying to be University Roman, but can’t be sure.

This is better, though not exactly current.

Nick Cooke

Arial & Times? Say it

dezcom — Wed, 6 Dec 2006 05:18:46 -0800

Arial & Times? Say it isn’t so Filip! I always had visions of beautiful typography all over the Czech Republic with its great history.
I am glad that at least the professional designers there are holding up their end of quality work.

ChrisL

I was in krakow, poland,

alexfjelldal — Wed, 6 Dec 2006 03:50:29 -0800

I was in krakow, poland, this summer, and i noticed that they have a quite different taste for “stock” typography than us in norway. A lot of the cheap, “non-professional” signs and posters were made with jugend-style typefaces instead of bauhaus, arial etc.

Czech Republic: Arial &

filip blazek — Wed, 6 Dec 2006 02:47:14 -0800

Czech Republic: Arial & Times New Roman. Everywhere. Time tables, road signs, logotypes, billboards, business cards, subway signs, books... And, of course, Comic Sans is as well very popular. The typographic environment in the Czech Republic is extremely poor. Czechs don’t have sense for type:

But if you look at stuff designed by professionals, Storm’s and Brousil’s typefaces are to be seen everywhere in Prague - from posters to books. This support of local type designers among Czech graphic design industry is an interesting phenomenon. There are obvious roots in the last years: Brousil and Storm both offers relatively cheap font packages and all of their typefaces support Central European languages. I used Brousil’s Atrament to design this Juggling poster:

oh, and Neutra(face) is all

alexfjelldal — Tue, 5 Dec 2006 23:59:57 -0800

oh, and Neutra(face) is all over the place. The charm of the lowered middle stroke of ’E’ is sloooowly wearing off.

Haha! I had no idea about

karenhuang — Tue, 5 Dec 2006 22:58:21 -0800

Haha! I had no idea about this thread. You guys should really visit! There’s nothing like living and breathing these live-sized signs, getting lost, getting into accidents, and getting divorced* because of them.

* Assuming the conventional arrangement of one spouse driving and the other navigating.

Chris, I am doneth with

Solipsism — Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:48:27 -0800

Chris, I am doneth with strutting my stuff with fashion advertising for the most part, and I don’t think I would like an editorial project anytime soon. But thank you for the suggestion. :-)

Give Vogue a call James

dezcom — Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:41:14 -0800

Give Vogue a call James :-)

ChrisL

Those signs are pretty damn

Solipsism — Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:35:26 -0800

Those signs are pretty damn ugly.

I have yet to find a project for Rotis. I’ve proposed it a couple times, and I actually want to use it in something. Almost like my quest to use a Didot...

What are the most popular fonts in your country?

alexfjelldal — Mon, 4 Dec 2006 00:07:16 -0800

or city or state or street or region?