Your Favorite Fonts

Post all your favorite fonts here. My list:

  1. Rockwell®

  2. Bembo®

  3. Soho®

  4. Harmonia Sans™

  5. Twentieth Century™

  6. Bauer Bodoni™

Text for book work:
Chaparral
Electra
Apollo
Optima

Display and heads in book work:
Franklin Gothic
Univers
Myriad
Futura
Clarendon (bold and black faces)

Text from job work (brochures, etc.)
Century Nova
Cheltenham
Bernhard Modern
De Vinne (not De Vinne Ornamented!)
Fontin

Display for job work
Bell Gothic
Bank Gothic
Rotis

Scripts for display
Formal 436
Scriptina
Zapfino
Viner hand (limited applicability, but it’s good)

Titling
Michelangelo Titling
Aurea
Weiss Initials

That’s a start.

That’s quite the list!

Formal 436 is a great font. I’ve never seen it before, so I just checked it out at MyFonts. Scriptina Pro has quite the flourishes. CheapProFonts is selling it on MyFonts for free, licenses for both desktop and webfont. Zapfino® Extra has many sets, with lots of curls and flourishes. And ITC Viner Hand is corroded, and in my opinion, isn’t really a script font.

Viner not your cup of tea? Look at Delphin, designed by one of the big names in the last century, Georg Trump, of Trump Medieval fame, and many others.

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/delphin/

I have really been digging Fira. I know it is basic, but it can be used in all kinds of different things. It is kind of like Gotham’s sassy sister.

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