Last week in the Fast Company Blog, there was an article entitled "The Eight Worst Fonts in the World." The article starts with an interesting survey of designers who were asked to identify A) the fonts they used most B) the ones they believed were most highly visible C) the ones they liked least. The author then gives his opinion of the Eight Worst Fonts in the World: EcoFont, Souvenir, Gill Sans Light Shadowed, Brush Script, Papryus, Neuland Inline, Ransom Note, and the 2012 Olympic Font.
While I have to agree with a lot of his choices, there are some fonts that I dislike more than that:
1. Arial (because in web design, if a PC doesn't have Helvetica installed, it will default to Arial which gives the web page a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT look and feel)
2. Bleeding Cowboys (http://www.dafont.com/bleeding-cowboys.font), a super trendy grunge font that is completely overused.
3. Hand of Sean (http://www.dafont.com/hand-of-sean.font) An overused handwriting font. On my drive to work last week, I counted it being used in outdoor advertisement at least 12 times.
How about you? What fonts do you wish designers would retire forever?
Or, what fonts do you really love working with?
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