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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Times New Roman and Verdana FTW.
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JJW009
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm
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Location: behind the sofa
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Century Gothic was kinda hot  Does anybody else remember German Bold Italic? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlAUJCiLpVI_________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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phantombudgie
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:45 pm
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I have been brought up on Times New Roman and Arial. However, any font is fine as long as it isn't stupidly over-complicated, like the "Handwriting" styles... *twitch* All OS's should ask if you are making a greetings card if you select a silly font. If not, it will crash and wipe your hard drive 
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adidan
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This is giving me a horrible flashback to the comments made by a tutor years, neigh eons ago, who used to work for Letraset and said that he could almost have a "typographical orgasm" over a good typeface.
Wrong, so very wrong.
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HeatherKay
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rustybucket
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I have to admit that bad fonts quite often cause me to use expletives. My own font of choice is Myriad Pro_________________Jim
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leeds_manc
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Ooh that's a nice one 
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saspro
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It's one of the only fonts where the letter "a" is actually printed as you would write it by hand.
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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He says that to all the boys. 
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Amnesia10
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Yes it is nice. I might be a dullard but I do use Arial quite often. Though I use Courier and Times New Roman a lot as well. Final Draft uses courier as default. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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jonlumb
Spends far too much time on here
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Location: Exeter
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Calibri for me.
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big_D
What's a life?
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I'm with Rusty, although if the font is poor, I'll stop reading and look at something else, if the font is bad. Probably why I've never read much in CS, I read the first few words, give up and go on to the next thing.
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ProfessorF
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There are technical reasons for this; because it's a fixed pitch font, you know that your script pages are going to be consistent and give you the page-per-minute that you're after. It's not an aesthetic decision, purely practical.
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veato
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I dont like Comic Sans at all. I like Calibri in MS Word 2007 for general stuff.
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Amnesia10
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Yes I knew that. Though thank you for explaining why. I could not be bothered.  _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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