![]() ![]() I'll go one further: what is your favorite letter? Why?Īt the moment (and this tends to change every week), my favorite letter is the lower-case 'i' in the London Underground font. But we will always need to express our emotions in new and modern ways, and we are a creative race, so we need to keep on inventing.Įveryone likes to ask what your favorite font is. Of course we don't need them all, but then again we probably don't need all the songs in the world either, or all the paintings. Im Dream Pants, Lisette Montreal, Lisette Pants, Sympli WomenClothing, Simon Chang, Frank Lyman Design, Joseph Ribkoff Dream-Pants. I haven't counted them all, but there are an estimated 100,000 different font designs in the world, most of them available to download on your computer. A fascination with book jackets soon followed, and then the credits on TV shows, and then computers. It began seriously for me when I bought my first album covers as a boy - I clearly remember going to a shop near my home in north-west London, buying David Bowie's Hunky Dory and Electric Warrior by T Rex, and gazing at their sleeves on the bus. Our Hidden Lives (2005) MUBI This new year, try MUBI. I've been interested in fonts long before I knew any of their names or anything of their history. Interview Simon Garfield, author of Just My Type, discusses the extraordinary history of fonts which of the more than 100,000 estimated font designs in the world he considers the best, and worst and explains why you should be cautious about downloading fonts off the internet. ![]()
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