Fitzcarraldo makes Times New Roman sing. It's fine if you give attention to other aspects of typography.
Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (2013)
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Re: Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (2013)
#22Has the default font on that site been changed? IIRC it was Valkyrie, but now Century Supra is selected for me, and it doesn't seem to elicit quite the same breath-taking effect. (Not talking about Times New Roman on the linked page.) If my memory and senses don't fault me in the tiredness and drunkenness, then switching to Valkyrie (at the bottom) is highly advised, as with it this site is the most beautiful on the…
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Re: Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (2013)
#23I love a good font (and try to use one on my own blog), but part of me gets really giddy when I discover a site with very little styling. It's like I've found some secret oasis that's going to have a high signal-to-noise ratio, or at least some more "raw" writing than you'd find on ${popularNewsWebsite}. Some sites that come to mind:
- https://100r.co/site/home.html
Where Times really shines is printed material. I find it (and Garamond) extremely easy to read.
For longform screen reading, I usually prefer Georgia, Freight Text, Source Serif, and Tiempos. San Francisco is a nice sans-serif font for this, too.
Re: Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (2013)
#24I finished Practical Typography yesterday and highly recommend it! In fact, I recommend anything Matthew Butterick I’ve seen so far. Triplicate is a perfect programming font, Pollen, Beautiful Racket, Reversing the Tide of Declining Expectations [1], his newsletter...
Re: Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (2013)
#25This was an interesting read, thanks.
I can see Times New Roman being the choice of no choice - when you don't think about it, you get that.
Reading this inspired me to think that I should search for an article like, "best fonts for people who don't know anything except Google Fonts" (I searched Google, wasn't very illuminating).
I don't know much more than Comic Sans bad, Helvetica good, Times New Roman meh. But, I'm learning.
Re: Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (2013)
#26I really can't tell between a good font and a bad one. I have no idea how to develop a sense for good typography despite recognising it's importance.
Re: Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (2013)
#27The best three fonts are: "sans-serif" (for general use), "monospace" (for code), and "serif" (for when you need a secondary font for contrast). The choice of implementation for these fonts should be left to the reader (who will probably use the defaults for their browser/ebook reader). This way everybody gets the fonts they're used to, which are the easiest fonts to read. I don't even know which exact font I'm looki…
IMO the default for body text should be serif, with sans used for headlines and display text. There’s a reason books and magazines are set in serif fonts: they are easier to read for long text paragraphs. GUIs defaulted to sans serif fonts because displays didn’t have enough resolution to properly render serifs, but that’s mostly not the case anymore.
It's also hard to distinguish among numbers in many sans serif fonts.
Re: Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (2013)
#28I personally dislike all Serif fonts, but TNR most of all. Too much Windows, probably (I also loathe Arial)
Re: Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (2013)
#29I love a good font (and try to use one on my own blog), but part of me gets really giddy when I discover a site with very little styling. It's like I've found some secret oasis that's going to have a high signal-to-noise ratio, or at least some more "raw" writing than you'd find on ${popularNewsWebsite}. Some sites that come to mind: - https://danluu.com/ - https://100r.co/site/home.html - https://meagher.co/ - https…
Hacker News is almost minimalist in the same vein. What's its font though? It's pretty nonoffensive.
Re: Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (2013)
#30I love a good font (and try to use one on my own blog), but part of me gets really giddy when I discover a site with very little styling. It's like I've found some secret oasis that's going to have a high signal-to-noise ratio, or at least some more "raw" writing than you'd find on ${popularNewsWebsite}. Some sites that come to mind: - https://danluu.com/ - https://100r.co/site/home.html - https://meagher.co/ - https…
Hacker News is almost minimalist in the same vein. What's its font though? It's pretty nonoffensive.
Verdana