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When doing what?

If it's just writing a letter, then I stick with Arial.

If it's for the web I like Arial or Trebuchet.

I'm a Garamond man - I love it! If I'm looking for a sans-serif and I'm struggling, I always seem to fall back to Helvetica - a very useful typeface.

Palatino is the proverbial win. Helvetica for the sans-serif, obviously.

I use Arial for most things as it's clean and simple.

I'm in the midst of an inexplicable love affair with Tahoma at the moment. It's my default font for emails and letters at work - close enough to Arial that the corporate-style-police don't mind, easy to read, but still a little quirky.

I second Cas' love affair with Tahoma for printy things.
On the web, I'm digging Helvetica and Lucida Grande.
When I get to be dark and funky, I hit up Misprinted Type which has an awesome collection of dirty, grungy fontacular typefaces! :D

Tahoma is indeed nice, a little unpredictable as a web font though I like its freshness vs. Verdana.

Arial, Verdana, or Tahoma. For headers on webpages, I really like Trebuchet MS.

Comic Sans... No, really, I go for Trebuchet for sans-serif, and Georgia for serif.

gatesofhell: I thought you were serious about Comic Sans for a brief moment. :)

Well, it's reassuring to see I'm not alone with my Tahoma thing!

Cas, I believe you said you were getting off the computer because of your hand. :P It would appear you've snuck back on! (Not, of course, that I'm complaining.)

Like aaronr79, I'm a Garamond man.

Josh: lol! I am an Interactive Media Design major, which is essentially web and interface design. I have taken my typography classes and acknowledge that the websites that I made in high school with Comic Sans where purely sinful, and now have a much greater knowledge and respect for good typography. lol I could never justify using Comic Sans. lol! Unless it were a really bad joke.
Oh, and I find myself attracted to Arial, Helvetica, and Tahoma lately too.

Minion Pro for all things serifed, and Myriad Pro if I'm craving a sans-serif at the moment.

If we're talking print, I'll go through Scala, Avenir, Trade Gothic, DIN, Bauer Bodoni, Mrs. Eaves, Univers and Rotis first, depending on the feel of the piece. If none of them do the trick, Franklin Gothic or Baskerville (depending on if I need a sans or serif) will usually work.

If it's Web, does it really matter? Though I have had fun starting to specify the new Windows web fonts for 20% of the viewers.

I'm a big fan of the Trade Gothic myself.

I used to love Trebuchet MS, now I'm a Georgia girl.

I like Georgia, but it's hard to read single spaced (for me anyways). One of my professors requires all font to be Courier. At first I was disgusted, but it's really grown on me.

Peroty, thanks for that link; I downloaded five of the fonts.

I like Lucida Grande, too bad it's Mac-only.

Arial over here - boring, predictable but good ole faithful for me.

Helvetica. Often use Futura for poster presentations, too.

In graphics, I like to use Century Gothic.

helvetica : clean read, good for content
myriad pro : good for header graphics. simple old faithful

logos : i use strait

For the web, I'm into Lucida Grande, but I've found the size has to be just right - something I'm slowly learning. For headers, Trebuchet is nice, but I'm also enjoying serifed fonts at the moment, like Garamond and Georgia.

For the web, Verdana, but in email Tahoma. I like that it's so readable.

I get extremely hot for Trebuchet. Not sure why, but it does wonders for me.

I'm definitely a Geneva man.

It definitely doesn't get as much love as it should -- I'll take Geneva over Arial any day.

alisa: I love Georgia but I find it too closely spaced for comfort when typing in single-lined paragraphs.

Helvetica over Arial anyday!

Inconsolata, a monospace font, since I do most of my typing in vim. But I do use Gentium and MgOpen family sometimes.

Can't tell you my font, but I know what Vanna White and Pat Sajak like:

Palatino Linotype for serif; for sans-serif, it really just depends on the project.

For the web?

Lucida sans unicode. Somehow, for the font size I use, it always looks pretty.

Georgia for print.

Well, it's reassuring to see I'm not alone with my Tahoma thing!

I'm there with you, too.

For work stuff though (public auditor) Times in Word and Arial in Excel make the most sense.

Frutiger, Helvetica, Georgia, Arial, Garamond, Univers, Rockwell

Not a big Tahoma and Trebuchet fan anymore.

At work where I have to development on a PC (ugh), I am always using Times and Arial for emails and word docs.

In the end though I go with what looks good on both Windows and Mac. So Helvetica and Georgia rain supreme.

Calibri, Cambria. I'm such a Vista geek.

comic sans FTW

Segoe is nice, as is Frutiger. But for web, Verdana usually.

When I was trying out the Office 2007 beta and first saw Segoe I was in love with it for a couple of months, and even started using it as my Windows font.

Right now, I'm a bit undecided, but my options are close to Verdana and Tahoma.

These days, I'd say Calibri. It's a beautiful font that looks great no matter the context. Corbel, Consolas, and the rest of the Vista fonts are all great in their own ways as well. Before that, Trebuchet MS and Tahoma (Tahoma in small font sizes only) with Helvetica above those if it came packaged with Windows.

Design..

These days, I'd say Calibri.

I read an article somewhere that says Calibri is the most professional looking typeface to use, and that to give yourself a professional appearance you should ideally use Calibri when writing emails. I changed default settings immediately lol.

Harry

Calibri does look good from what I have seen. It's about time Windows updated their fonts.

But I am a Mac guys so take my disdain for Windows with a grain of salt.

If it's print than those Swiss guys got it covered… Univers and Helvetica all the way baby ;-) Surprised nobody's mentioned Gill though… Maybe I'm getting old!

If we're talking websites then I think Lucida Grande is the best of a bad bunch.

Helvetica is a classic. It'll never get old. The capital R is just beautiful.

On the web lately, I've been digging Lucida Grande and Bright. I've also recently been on a big Gotham kick. Seems to be pretty trendy. I'm also obsessed with Akkurat. I could go on for days.

Underware and Fountain have some gorgeous fonts as well.

I have no idea how to pick just one, I love fonts. I don't get to make use of non-standard fonts nearly enough.

I think I'm about to do a site logo with Dirty Ego.