Also: Font Nerd sounds like a great little unknown spot outside Paris.

Pronounced "Foh' Nerr"

It does sound French. I'm teaching myself French (with the help of Duolingo) so my wife and I can visit Non Sequitor once quarantine is lifted. And so we can get around in France.

Citizen, no rush on responding but I'm curious what you like about Helvetica, vs. Calibri or Ariel--they all seem very similar to me. I'm not sure why I landed on Calibri before discovering Segoe.

Mostly nostalgia-- it was everywhere when I was in school. (Also, one of David Sideris's hilarious stories includes a housekeeper named Helvetica.)

Now, I use Calibri all the time, since it comes up as the default, and it's just fine. 

But when I really need to pack in the words, there's no better high-density communicator than Arial Narrow. It's like a room full of basketball players and super models.

(Gee, I guess I wasn't so busy after all!)

Interesting, the first firm I worked at used Century Gothic. What do you like about it? Does it align with your design style? I like cleaner lines but appreciate that serif fonts can be easier to read.

Is there a reason you use all caps other than tradition? 

For both questions the answer is it's easier to read. I like CG because while not being boring it's simple. Also when you do small caps it still reads well.

I'm trying to transition away from all caps. It gives the reader fatigue and they stop reading because it feels like they're getting yelled at.

On construction documents - no they don't.

I actually like the Franklin Gothic and Swis721 families. For my "logo" I use Special Elite, all lower case...

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Optima is a Republican font though ;-)

DIN is our logo font...was tempted to use it for notes, but we use arial

Non, I was not familiar with Agency FB but just tried it out--looks cool for short notes, but very busy for long blocks of text--what do you like about it? I don't mean to criticize your choice, just curious what people find appealing about different fonts.

I use it for presentation and internal office memos, not CD notes. I think I first discovered it while looking for a discrete font for my thesis footnotes. For me, I like using this font in regular sentences because of the tall & narrow capital letters and bonus... looks even better using "small caps" option in InDesign. I'm also a sucker for a neat looking ampersand and letters that look different depending on up or low case.

See below for small caps example:

I do like a neat ampersand! I've been using "+" instead for a few years because "&" is ugly and old-fashioned looking in most fonts, but people sometimes read "+" as plus, not and. I still think the font is hard to read, but for short notes the distinctive appearance I can see where it would make sense.

I agree that the font looks odd in paragraph form. I typically use it in narrow text columns that average 6 to 8 words wide or bullet points.

That's what we do. Oh and you and I are boring, at least on our CD's.

Oh my CD's are sexy as hell

Sexy, but boring?

ONLY THE FONT IS BORING, MY BUILDING SECTIONS, WALL SECTIONS AND DETAILS ARE SEXY AS FUK

Quit shouting! (LOL) Seriously, though--do you have a reason for writing in all caps on documents, other than tradition?

If one's font is sexier than their drawings, perhaps they need better drawings...

For clarity. There was a time when drawing where copied by a blueprint machine. The capital letters are more clear. Now drawings get printed in large format, but it still applies. When you print the drawings on a smaller scale t

The words are still legible

One reason for all caps, that I remember from my first days drafting up CDs, was that some low-case letters can read differently if rotated. The main example I can remember is stair direction notes: UP & DN vs up & dn. Easy to see how up can read as dn if you flip the text or mirror the detail.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole

My dad used comic sans all the fucking time, so now it’s even on his tombstone...

I had a word processing class in like 9th grade where we had to create and print business cards for ourselves. I used Comic Sans and killed it (fading gradient on half the card and everything). The only reason I remember it is because I stuck one in a luggage tag, and I can't get it out, so every time I use that piece of luggage, or see it in the back of the closet, I'm reminded of the last time I used Comic Sans seriously.

I've considered using Comic Sans just to piss off the establishment, but can't bring myself to do it.

Can confirm, big fan of Swiss721

Yup... Swiss721 everything since University

I just make sure to use a lot of exclamation points, especially in my note not to scale drawings on site (usually 3 !!!)

Don't forget about wingding.

I had forgotten about that. Thanks for sharing

suprised this doesn't have more likes, then I realized no one is clicking the link. Here's the video

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I know a guy who used to write his specs on a digital rainbow. Basically a typewriter that could reprint the thing you typed as many times as you want on a dot matrix. Fun, fun.

I think I'm lucky to have been able to avoid SpecsIntact/UFGS so far in my career. Sorry for your pain.