Revealing Font Style

[Merika]

What is YOUR font style?
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Are you an anorak or a pop chick? E-mail fonts reveal all

A new study claims you can tell someone's personality by the size and style of typeface used in their e-mails.

Courier is the "anorak of fonts", used by boozy, chain-smoking "old-school" journalists with goose neck lamps.

Fashion conscious "pop chicks" use curvy styles such as Georgia, while Prince Charles uses a modern Helvetica font to show he is in touch with contemporary issues.

Psychologist Dr Aric Sigman was commissioned by printer firm Lexmark to complete the study. He claims the choice of font is a form of social coding.

He said: "[Courier] is used by older administrative staff, secretaries who harbour latent nostalgia for the by-gone era of typewriters and carbon paper, and old-school journalists who associate it with whiskey, cigarettes, late nights and goose neck lamps."

He said the Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Edward George, uses a nostalgic Courier font because he doesn't want to pay heed to the emotional needs of others.

The Prince of Wales uses a modern Helvetica font to show he is in touch with contemporary issues.

Styles such as Times New Roman and Palatino show trustworthiness and a compromise between old and new, reports The Daily Telegraph.

Sans Serif styles, such as Arial and Modern, are the "sensible pair of shoes of print", said Dr Sigman.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_303414.html (the link)

[Merika]

Courier is the "anorak of fonts", used by boozy, chain-smokin

I don't....but I should.

[Duke]

I try and use arial most of the time and I also prefer Impact simply because there both good clean fonts that are easy to read at virtually any screen resolution and on paper as well.

[Merika]

That would endicate your personality is like a sensible pair of shoes...as per the article.

[Duke]

I only pick those because they are among the best according to business writing, my favorite font is on Hobby-Universe.