Favorite font?

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500+ is a small collection when it comes to fonts; mine's got a couple more 0's on the end. And you'll never get down to 50-100 installed total without breaking your PC, because Windows has more than that by default.

There are many questions that go into determining what you need in a good personal collection. Most of them are about defining your style, because that will affect how many you need... do you lean more toward wanting handwritten-looking journaling or traditional text fonts? What do you like for page titles and word art? Romantic pages will lean towards more script fonts, kid-oriented pages might mean adding more playful fonts; everyday life might call for a script/sans/serif font trio if you're more of a minimalist or want unified font choices throughout albums, or a well-chosen small collection like you already have if you prefer more variety in your pages.

Simplifying a collection? The easiest way is to choose a few primary font families that all work well together. Ideally, you'd have one sans serif in a variety of weights, with italic and small-cap variants as well. Then choose a serif font family that goes well with it--again, with multiple weights, italics, and small caps. A couple of display fonts and script fonts that work with both of your main sans and serif families will give you a relatively minimalist collection that will work for most things.

That, however, doesn't work for me: I like to have all the pretties and am perfectly happy with different fonts on every pair of facing pages!

I usually like to pick a font that matches the theme. For instance, Poker Kings is a favorite for Western style pages. I'll use it for the titles and complement the journal cards or captions in a simple san-serif typeface. On my annual books, I try not too repeat fonts, so I make good use of most of the fonts in my library.

Holly, that's why I took the (painstaking) time to go through and tag my fonts, and make sure to use NexusFont's ability to do collections and compare fonts and such. I like having lots of options (that's the designer in me, I guess), but I do also like having some consistency through a kit or other project as needed. I've got basic tags like "script," "hand," "sans," "serif," "body," etc. so I can find the ones that work for go-to uses, and then for any given project I make a collection and dump the fonts I'm using for it in there so I can refer to them quickly.

Yep, Amanda, I work the same way. Still going through that (huge) painstaking tagging process as I recover from a major uninstall overreach that ATE my A through H folders with no way to restore them (using ALL the data recovery tools I have), and discovered some sectors on my backup drive had also gone bad--luckily, one of my exes had an offsite backup from when we were dating that restored the older half of them and I'm able to re-download the ones I've purchased since then without an issue. That just leaves going through FontSquirrel and the Open Font Library once I finish with the purchases. Still a project and a half that'll take months to complete, but it'll be worth it in the end.

On the plus side, I know for a fact that everything currently in those A through H folders is accurately tagged with creating foundry, site I got it from, and license terms, even if they're still somewhat smaller...and my PU fonts are in a separate set of folders now, too. I'll definitely be having my ex hold a fresh backup with the way it's saved my butt here; updating that copy will likely be a monthly task done at the same time as website backups.

Ufffff! Another tricky question. I have a lot of fonts saved for a simple reason: they are my weakness: D and I use them as it seems to me that it best suits the type of page I am composing.

totally agree

Thanks everyone. I'm new to scrapping and have found some great new fonts thanks to the recommendations on this thread.

I don't know if I ever answered this:

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I typically use a typewriter font for journaling - Traveling Typewriter or Special Elite are 2 of my favorites.

I also gravitate towards the handwritten/script fonts. I have quite a few of the Pea fonts from Kevin & Amanda and use Pea Ramona for journaling cards on my pocket page layouts.

I prefer Monotype Cursiva

I love clean fonts like Open Sans and Raleway. And dingbats!

Well, this IS a dangerous thread for font junkies, of which I am one! Thanks for some new ones (that I didn't need, LOL!)
I've been getting free fonts from Creative Fabrica when I signed up for their emails. Also Design Cuts is another email freebie site. Both of these sites also have digital items they offer for free that you can use in your pages from time to time via email.

My current faves are Arial Narrow for my journaling because it is clean and easy to read. For script fonts I've been using Agestin, Bella Madelyn, Cathleen mostly. These are Creative Fabrica fonts. I've downloaded several fonts from Design Cuts, but have never loaded them yet. OY VEY! I have soooooo many fonts that I never use! I've downloaded a font manager that was suggested early on in this thread and try it out!

I like orange mango and dragonfly soup. I'll have to check out creative fabrica.

Whenever I check in here I find lovely fonts, thanks so much for the inspiration, ladies.

I am a text heavy memory keeper. Text and photo heavy not so much element heavy at all. And I love typography. Font families were THE game changer for me at one point. One of my faves is TrueNorth for any outdoor even tropical pages.

The day I ran into Adobe fonts and their typekits (comes with CS) changed my attitude towards fonts completely and forever and saved hours, days, years of my life, no kidding. It'll just dish out a word perfect font combo each and every time. Everything will look absolutely divine with Adobe fonts. Adobe fonts absolutely rules.

At the end of the day, most fonts (not Adobe fonts) have spacing issues, even well established ones that have been around forever get updated or new releases because they have spacing issues that will cost time to fix on a layout.
Often, such fonts don't get used anymore altogether. Which is what I do. I do not re-use fonts that cost me too much time to fix the first time around, instead such fonts get thrown out. Safe to say, that very few newly downloaded fonts make it to the residential font area on my HD.

Usually I use 6x8 to print my dailies and need a legible font, so Lato is my go to font really for my personal text heavy memory keeping but I also like typewriter fonts for bodies of text depending on the project. My fave here is Elegant Typewriter because it has a minimally smeared yet embossed appearance. I love it.

Hardly any of the artsy font-mill fonts that won't go with Lato. I do check out new, fun fonts like the ones mentioned here and find them on my pages for titles mainly. New fonts sometimes transport something hyper current that isn't found in existing fonts.

So looking at my pages at home and away Lato does have some presence to say the very least. I also use Raleway for cooler, more distanced looks but Lato defs has more options overall than Raleway and a somewhat warmer (possible even with a Sans) more of a tying-in feel and look to bodies than Raleway, which has a more commanding than cordial look, does.

A display font that I find extremely versatile and use a lot on sportsy outdoor pages is Kapra

Thank you Lori Bickford,
Dulcelin is in my favorite handwritten font file smiley

My favorite fonts are in this Thread

Here I have a large collection of old fonts by the german font designer Dieter Steffmann:

Dieter Steffmann Fonts

Wow , these are beautiful! Thanks for sharing! I don't want to assume we can use them so I amasking if we can.

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