Times New Roman is probably my favourite to read for pleasure, Arial I use at work for the same reason as Amber. When it comes to writing and especially editing on paper, I prefer double-spaced Courier, which is aesthetically kind of ugly and takes getting used to, but is what was used for most screenplays and up until the last few years was pretty standard for prose manuscripts, too. I really hated it initially, but it grew on me and now screenplays and manuscripts don't feel entirely "real" to me when they're in something else.
I prefer double-spaced Courier, which is aesthetically kind of ugly and takes getting used to, but is what was used for most screenplays and up until the last few years was pretty standard for prose manuscripts, too. I really hated it initially, but it grew on me and now screenplays and manuscripts don't feel entirely "real" to me when they're in something else.
Courier, that's the one! I prefer it for the same reason—every script I've read uses it.
Courier New is terrible. It's always like, "Look at me, I wish I were a typewriter, aren't I cool and retro". And I'm like, What are you trying to prove, Courier New?!
(And also, No one uses couriers anymore; get with the Times!)
Well we can't all be Helvetica Neue, can we? I enjoy a variety of typefaces for a variety of purposes. The only things I loath are inappropriate Papyrus and anything that looks even a little bit like Papyrus.
Trebuchet is my favourite sans serif font. It is clean looking at well spaced. Although I don't know why it is serifing here. Baskerville Old Face is my go to serif font. I like how the serifs align with common lettering like "th" or "il".
Both Papyrus and Comic Sans needs to be deleted from every program, server, computer etc around the entire world. I will pay some hacker 3 internet cookies to make it happen.
Being a calligraphy fan who studied for years (like this) to write in that way, I'm somewhat partial to the ones above.
Anything looking like Old English/Gothic styles, really. The top one, not so much. It looks sharp, pointy, it's got curves where you wouldn't expect; for example the dot on the eye (curse predictive typing) 'i' is curved on all sides, concave, which would mean multiple sweeps just to get the desired effect—also remember that the ink will not be uniform (obviously that doesn't matter with mono-colour computer fonts). It looks more like a stencil font. You have to remember that most fountain pens or felt nib pens start with a mostly straight or partially convex line when using the broad side of the nib. If it starts convex, then it is most likely to end concave.
Being a calligraphy fan who studied for years (like this) to write in that way, I'm somewhat partial to the ones above.
Anything looking like Old English/Gothic styles, really. The top one, not so much. It looks sharp, pointy, it's got curves where you wouldn't expect; for example the dot on the eye is curved on all sides, concave, which would mean multiple sweeps just to get the desired effect—also remember that the ink will not be uniform (obviously that doesn't matter with mono-colour computer fonts). It looks more like a stencil font. You have to remember that most fountain pens or felt nib pens start with a mostly straight or partially convex line when using the broad side of the nib. If it starts convex, then it is most likely to end concave.
The bottom one is better, more natural looking.
I studied calligraphy too! I only took a few classes but I can still bust out the serifs if I need to. Often when I have to print in "all caps" I use uncial characters out of habit.
noticing the new icewinddale.com site has the new logo on the top, but not the one that won. The one on the site is unique but I don't know if I prefer it over the winner, or some of the other entries.
noticing the new icewinddale.com site has the new logo on the top, but not the one that won. The one on the site is unique but I don't know if I prefer it over the winner, or some of the other entries.
I think that is just the old logo with an "ice" color added to it. I am not entirely sure, but I think that was the logo used when the site first launched, but I can't remember...
noticing the new icewinddale.com site has the new logo on the top, but not the one that won. The one on the site is unique but I don't know if I prefer it over the winner, or some of the other entries.
I'm sure it's mainly because of image rights and copyrights. The new logo has to become a trademark which needs some legal proceedings.
The second reason, I think, is that the Devs want something like an announcement about the Adventure Y to become the very first time the majority of people see the new logo. So that it would become a unique feature of that announcement i.e. "Baldur's Gate is back with a new, better engine and so is Beamdog is now here, a new big company within an RPG-developers circle, thus a new logo"
noticing the new icewinddale.com site has the new logo on the top, but not the one that won. The one on the site is unique but I don't know if I prefer it over the winner, or some of the other entries.
I think that is just the old logo with an "ice" color added to it. I am not entirely sure, but I think that was the logo used when the site first launched, but I can't remember...
That is indeed the frosty logo that was put up on launch day.
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Although in high school I went through phases for both Comic Sans and Papyrus.
(And also, No one uses couriers anymore; get with the Times!)
Baskerville Old Face is my go to serif font. I like how the serifs align with common lettering like "th" or "il".
Both Papyrus and Comic Sans needs to be deleted from every program, server, computer etc around the entire world. I will pay some hacker 3 internet cookies to make it happen.
However for a logo, and for reading on a digital screen, sans serif is the objectively correct choice because I said so and I am never wrong.
And I am also guessing you didn't like any of the finalist for the logo then.
Anything looking like Old English/Gothic styles, really. The top one, not so much. It looks sharp, pointy, it's got curves where you wouldn't expect; for example the dot on the eye (curse predictive typing) 'i' is curved on all sides, concave, which would mean multiple sweeps just to get the desired effect—also remember that the ink will not be uniform (obviously that doesn't matter with mono-colour computer fonts). It looks more like a stencil font. You have to remember that most fountain pens or felt nib pens start with a mostly straight or partially convex line when using the broad side of the nib. If it starts convex, then it is most likely to end concave.
The bottom one is better, more natural looking. As standard, people using Windows or Linux won't see the result. You need to use Lucida Console on Windows or Monospace on some Linux distributions.
~ $ vi /etc/default/grub
>DIR C:\
HTML -- cross-platform is a pain and learning is fun.
noticing the new icewinddale.com site has the new logo on the top, but not the one that won.
The one on the site is unique but I don't know if I prefer it over the winner, or some of the other entries.
The second reason, I think, is that the Devs want something like an announcement about the Adventure Y to become the very first time the majority of people see the new logo. So that it would become a unique feature of that announcement i.e. "Baldur's Gate is back with a new, better engine and so is Beamdog is now here, a new big company within an RPG-developers circle, thus a new logo"
-Trent