Which typeface is better for designing
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Depends what your designing. The choice of typeface is critical.
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Keep it simple in my opinion. The typeface shouldn't be too fancy because people need to be able to read your message. Personally I just used <Gill Sans MT> today when designing a business card for a touring business in New York. It worked pretty well for me. Hope this helps. Other typefaces that are simple: Arial Unicode Texton Pro or Harrington (cursive)
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You haven't said what it is you are designing? Use different typefaces for different types of documents. Choose a typeface that is easy to read and has a lot of weights (regular, demi, book, heavy, condensed etc) to give variety rather than using bold and italic.
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It depends entirely on what you are designing: the message you want to convey, the product you are featuring, the audience you want to reach,... As already stated, keep it simple. Don't let those cute and fun fonts blind you to readability and the message you are trying to send.
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I would suggest any of the typefaces from the True Type family that print out crisp, sharp, and at a high high resolution whether you are using an inkjet or a postscript printer. I would also experiment with the fancier serif fonts in that typeface family in order to choose the ones which have the most personal appeal. I did a lot of desktop publishing in the nineties and the experimenting was the fun part of it. The most important idea that I learned was to avoid gaudiness and to delimit the project to using only three type faces. I would use two serif fonts along with one sans serif font.
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