Typographic Baton

By Twisted Intellect on November 7, 2005 10:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

For quite some time, I've wanted to hit someone over the head with some sort of a virtual baton. Be it musical or whatever... However, I'm yet to be handed one myself - so here it goes - time to make one myself.

I hereby present the JorgenArnor.com "Typographic Baton"!

The rules are simple: Answer the questions, with explanations and send the baton ahead to five people...

What five fonts would you bring to a desert island?

Now, I'm in love with this font... The italics of this font would be my lover on the island...

The serif that's ultra-cool, without trying too hard. It's probably the most readable font on the planet...

Now, who doesn't love Myriad? Myriad should wear a warning-label, though. It's waay overused! Myriad is lovely in newspaper headers, not so much on address-stickers... (I've seen both)

Now, I'd pick Garamond over Palatino any day, but for those projects where Garamond's too heavy... Palatino is also a nice organic serif... That's cool!

Ok, so I'm minimalistic. I like it cool and smooth... And PetitaLight is the best for that purpose...
What five fonts would you kill if given half a chance?

Need I say more?!

I'm terribly sorry... I know you all love the Cooper Black... But I'm sick and tired of hearing about it, I don't like the '70s, I don't like old ads and I don't like Cooper Black.

Not that bad a font, really... But it's just so overused, I think it does more harm than good.

And this is really one of the best fonts ever made... Guess who f*cked it? Microsoft. Having TNR as standard font has made it look cheap and simple. Times is the new king!

As a web designer, Verdana is really getting on my nerves. I immedeately think of 1999's forums and webdesign whenever I see this font...
If you were a font, which would you be?

I'm skinny... :P And minimalistic. And I really try to be modern, but I'm still a bit conservative. This is me, now!
What's your favourite glyph?

I love ligatures... I love drawing them, too... And this is probably my favourite...
If you could only have either serif or sans-serif; which would you choose?

That's a tough one... But it's easier to make light, modern and cool stuff with Sans... But I wouldn't do a Sans-serif book, however...