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Jeff Spradling
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What is your “Go to font” when you’re doing a quickie or something that isn’t a master piece? Like a simple coro sign, banner, or simple sub copy.

I find I tend to use Euro/Microgramma more often than any other.

Jeff [Smile]

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Lisa,Luke,Dara, and Jeff Spradling
5742 Shattuck Rd. Belvidere, Il.
61008 815-544-0167

Surviving another day.

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Jillbeans
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Arthur Vanson's American Sans.
Makes even a "quickie" LOOK like a masterpiece.
That and Impact.
love....Jill

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Ray Rheaume
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Serpentine Bold

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Ray Rheaume
Rapidfire Design
543 Brushwood Road
North Haverhill, NH 03774
rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com
603-787-6803

I like my paint shaken, not stirred.

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Stevo Chartrand
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I still use Impact quite abit for basic sign layouts like parking signs and For Lease 4x8s.

Stevo

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Stevo Design
Illustration Logos Sign Design Clip Art
www.stevo-design.com

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Jon Butterworth
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Helvetica!

[Rolling On The Floor] [Rolling On The Floor] [Rolling On The Floor]

Just kidding

[Razz]

Optima, Antique Olive

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Bushie^
aka Jon Butterworth

Executive Director
HARDLY NORMAL
SIGN COMPANY

http://www.icr.com.au/~jonsigns

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Jen Goodwin
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Castle & Palatino

[ September 27, 2006, 09:31 AM: Message edited by: Jen Goodwin ]

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Jen Goodwin
Goodwin Glass & Graphics
Hampden, Maine 04444

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Checkers
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Hiya Jeff,
My favorite is the Antique Olive family. A few more would be Eras, Frutiger, and Univers.

Havin' fun,

Checkers

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a.k.a. Brian Born
www.CheckersCustom.com
Harrisburg, Pa
Work Smart, Play Hard

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Bill Modzel
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Gill Sans, Impact and Stone Informal for a serif.

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Bill Modzel
Mod-Zel screen Printing
Traverse city, MI
modzel@sbcglobal.net

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Wayne Webb
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Futura, Optima, Frutiger, Antique Olive, Antique Olive Norde in various weights.

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Wayne Webb
Webb Signworks
Chipley, FL
850.638.9329
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Robert Cole
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BIG RED [sign DNA] VASONA [sign DNA]
BOLT BOLD, and Gill SAns Ultra Bold.

Regards,
Bob C.

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Bob Cole
American Sign Company
14163 Akron Canfield Rd.
Berlin Center, Ohio 44401

A.K.A. Vinylman®

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Impact or Haettenschweiler

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Mike Pipes
stickerpimp.com
Lake Havasu, AZ
mike@stickerpimp.com

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Ken Henry
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I tend to make my type selections based on the format I'm working with.

If the format is horizontal, I'll probably use more extended styles like Eurostyle, Antique Olive Nord, or Handel Gothic. I try to use more than one weight for contrast, and to distinguish the priority established for the most important information.

If the format is vertical, I'm more likley to use Compacta Bold, combined with Univers 57 or 67. Again, the bolder styles are used to feature the most important information.

For more formal type layouts, I tend to stick with the Caslon Family, and use Caslon Black as the "heavyweight".

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Ken Henry
Henry & Henry Signs
London, Ontario Canada
(519) 439-1881
e-mail: kjmlhenry@rogers.com

Why do I get all those on-line offers to sell me Viagara, when the only thing hardening is my arteries ?

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Jon Jantz
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Impact or Haettenschweiler, Futura, Berlin Sans (but don't like a few of the letters, like W's), Clarendon, Serpentine...

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Jon Jantz
Snappysign.com
jjantz21@gmail.com
http://www.allcw.com

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Billie DeBekker
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Speed Style, Sarah or Billhead All Letterhead fonts

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Billie DeBekker
3rd Dimension Signs
Canon City Colorado 81212
719-276-9338
bill@3dsignco.com
www.3dsignco.com

"Another Fine Graduate of the Ray Charles School of Sign Painting."

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Judy Pate
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Impact, Futura, Optima, and some of the casual fonts like House Slant.
Judy

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Signs By Judy
Albany, Georgia USA
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Live simply...Love generously...Care deeply...Speak kindly...Leave the rest to God.

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Bill Biggs
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Friz quadrata, aurora bold condensed, Optima bold
Helvetica Bold italicized and my own letterstyles.
Bill

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Art's Sign Service, Inc.
Clute, Texas, USA
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mark zilliox
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Parade, if a lot on one line, Frutgar 77,
all the
Virtual's are easy to read. Quick signs still need to be "legable" -anything but Times roman huh ?
where do folks buy contemporary TT fonts ?
i love SignDNA & LHF's,goodd night all MZ

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mark zilliox
mark z signs
8425 pushaw station rd.
owings md. 20736
301-855-5407 thezs@earthlink.net
http://www.markzsigns.com

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Buzz, by Crazy Jack!
(also A&S' Bone Casual...and Impact/Eras...)

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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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Frank Smith
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If speed weeding is important, Helvetica or VAG roundeds; Dom or Flash weed fast, too. Brewer's Bold is a sure pleaser. Alternate Gothic and Microgramma for condensed and expanded. A quickie script would be Script MT. That's as many fonts as my first sign program had.

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Frank Smith
Frank Smith Signs
Albany, NY
www.franksmithsigns.com

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this is a great question/topic!

i was pretty much nodding my head at all the others, and it got me thinking. (and yes, i really DO like Helvetica. its still one of the best fonts ever designed, but --sadly-- it takes some skill to use it really well)

i tend to use what i know best, so probably Futura or Univers for the sans serifs, and Baskerville, Times, and Caslon for the serifs.

my "cheap quicky" jobs are usually the ones where i go crazy and try out wacky fonts that i wouldn't normally try on a more "sofisticaded" sign. seems almost backwards, but maybe i guess i feel more able to take risks when there is less money involved and when i know its for a short term use. ("Its ok to use that, if it sux it will be down in a day anyway, and besides, they're not paying me enuff to think about it...")

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:: Scooter Marriner ::
:: Coyote Signs ::
:: Oakland, CA ::
:: still a beginner ::
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Rick Chavez
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Sans Serif:
Bertold Akzidenz Grotesk
Franklin Gothic
Tanek

Serif:
Sabon
Garamond
Mrs. Eaves

Script/Brush:
Sarah Script
Tiki Holiday
House Movements Sign

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Rick Chavez
Hemet, CA

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