The top one is Fago, I think.

Bottom one is Oranda (I guess).

The other one, I believe, is Oranda.

Rats. I should have waited to add the link in a post-edit like I usually do. :-)

Whoa Mark! Competitive fever is raging! I think you ARE ready for that 12-step program for Fontaholics Anonymous. ;-)

thx all for replaying!

Just for a laugh, my last post to Mark (and his earlier comment about needing a 12-step program) prompted me to make the following List. Maybe some of you can suggest better/additional items?


These are the Twelve Warning Signs that you may be a Fontoholic (alt. spelling: Fontaholic):

1. You dream about fonts.

2. You tell other people (who could not care less) what font the menu is set in.

3. You look at magazine ads to identify the fonts.

4. You know the urls of over 10 font sites by heart.

5. Your copies of font books are falling apart from being used.

6. You know the names of over 20 type designers.

7. You name things after your favorite fonts.

8. It ruins your day when you can't think of the name of a font you KNOW you know.

9. You hang out all day waiting for ID posts at newsgroups and forums online.

10. You need to buy a bigger hard drive to house your font collection.

11. You spend days developing elaborate font classification schemes for your font files.

12. You hate it when you know a font, but someone ID's it before you do.

13. You buy magazines "for the articles."

14. It ruins a movie for you when they use a typeface that didn't exist at the time the movie is supposed to take place.

15. You can page through a 2-inch-thick font catalog without falling asleep.

16. The first thing you do when you go to a used or rare book store is check to see if they have any type specimen books.

17. You find it difficult to read sometimes because you're noticing the typeface.

Great stuff. I sense a new thread coming..

No. 2 happens to me all the time. Sometimes people get downright hostile and act like I'm a freak. Oh wait, we *are* freaks. And everytime I go "Look! Futura Extra Bold!" or "Hey, it's Gill Sans again!" my girlfriend acts like she doesn't know me. *Sigh*

Another one that happens all the time:

- People stare at you in disbelief for being an illiterate in these times when all you do is get a really close/long look at the poster/billboard (to figure out if it's Helvetica Condensed or Franklin Gothic)

Boy, already I am feeling better!

Now I know I am not alone.

Those were good additions Mark. I especially identify with the last two.

And everytime I go "Look! Futura Extra Bold!" or "Hey, it's Gill Sans again!" my girlfriend acts like she doesn't know me. *Sigh*

You need a new girlfriend. ;-)

I'm lucky. My partner is almost as much of a type freak as I am. She just has no interest in spending her time on sites like this.

Well, when my wife wants to insult me she calls me a
"poorly spaced Helvetica". I kid you not.

Yves, at least your wife doesn't call you "off key"

-- (standing up) Hi everybody!

-- (blushing) My name is Jes�s and I am a fontoholic!


What about pausing a a dvd �half way throug the movie, and among cries of "you are a freak"� just to check the type on some sign in the background of the scene?

18. You name something including a lower-case g just so you can use typefaces with really cool g's.

Oh, and I, like Mark, am one of the lucky ones when it comes to partners. They're out there, my friends, they're out there.

19. You speak in pangrams.
20. You buy old records for the type specimens, even if the LP is missing.
21. You "fontisize" � stealing glances at the specimen book
of the moment � while waiting at a stoplight.

Well, when my wife wants to insult me she calls
me a "poorly spaced Helvetica". I kid you not.

funny.. mine says that she's font of me.