Is there some big index of fonts and what each of them mean? I’ve been publicly ridiculed for doing my webcomic in Papyrus, but I had no way to know anyone had specific value judgments about it, I just saw it on the menu and thought it was pretty. I’d like a way to avoid that in the future.
It’s not a list, but if you want to check on the general social opinion of a font, you can google the font name, possibly along with the word “font”. For example, the first four results (for me at least; does anyone know how to stop Google from ‘customizing’ its search results?) for ‘papyrus font’ are a wikipedia page about it, a link to the google images search for it, “Papyrus Watch—Exposing the overuse of the Papyrus font” and “5 Terrible Fonts You Shouldn’t Use in Print Design”.
The only objection I have is to the use of a default font. It makes the whole thing look rather amateurish.
Is there some big index of fonts and what each of them mean? I’ve been publicly ridiculed for doing my webcomic in Papyrus, but I had no way to know anyone had specific value judgments about it, I just saw it on the menu and thought it was pretty. I’d like a way to avoid that in the future.
Well, for most things Papyrus is good for, Centaur is too. It’s a pretty underrated font.
http://inspirationlab.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/infographiclarge_v2.png There’s a more recent one I’m trying to find, will update with it.
It’s not a list, but if you want to check on the general social opinion of a font, you can google the font name, possibly along with the word “font”. For example, the first four results (for me at least; does anyone know how to stop Google from ‘customizing’ its search results?) for ‘papyrus font’ are a wikipedia page about it, a link to the google images search for it, “Papyrus Watch—Exposing the overuse of the Papyrus font” and “5 Terrible Fonts You Shouldn’t Use in Print Design”.
Have you tried deleting Google’s cookie?
Yeah, “Papyrus Watch” is the site that made fun of me.