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top 30 fonts for graphic designers?

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~LizartLizard May 27, 2012  Professional General Artist
as i'm sitting here adding fonts to my newly reinstalled font management program i'm wondering what are the top 30 fonts designers here on DA use?
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*Auro-Cyanide May 28, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Pfft, my list is way longer than 30. I use whatever suits the project. I have a big soft sport for Bebas Neue and Bree Serif at the moment, but that's just because I'm using them at the moment. Typefaces are like colours, they all have unique ways of saying something and conveying a message.
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~schizostories May 28, 2012
Gotham is one of my absolute favorite typefaces for design. Auugh, so fucking lovely. But for things more accessible, I have a tendency to use futura often- helvetica's nice but I'm personally growing sick of it's tendency to become a default anymore (which is also understandable, given that it's so nicely designed and carried a lot of function because of it), but I will almost always choose Univers over it, and for a serif I tend to lean towards bodoni fairly often. Obviously it depends on the project, but those are probably my top four most used if I'm not hand rendering (and I'm also by no means an expert, given that I really don't consider myself a graphic designer).
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~i-scene-death May 28, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
You can't go wrong with DIN. It is an extremely versatile typeface and easy to alter and the results are pretty exceptional. Its an ideal font for any corporate identity/logo design jobs related.
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~LizartLizard May 28, 2012  Professional General Artist
basic fonts like arial and helvetica and times roman are kind of already implied.
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=nelchee May 28, 2012  Professional General Artist
There are plenty of fonts free for commercial use here: [link]
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~LizartLizard May 28, 2012  Professional General Artist
i already use fontsquirrel, love it.... maybe i should have rephrased my question.... as a designer here on DA what would be your top 10 or 20 fonts for graphic design (not web design such as verdana).
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=nelchee May 28, 2012  Professional General Artist
There are maybe 3-4 fonts I use regularly (Helvetica Neue, Gill Sans, Myriad Pro, Palatino Linotype..) and others (for logos, headlines etc.) I pick from a huge list I have on my computer based on the nature of the project.
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~LizartLizard May 27, 2012  Professional General Artist
i meant commercial use fonts, not commercial fonts.
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~LizartLizard May 27, 2012  Professional General Artist
thank you for ruining what was supposed to be a serious thread.
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~Black-Allison May 27, 2012
Woah, I was totally serious. You can google a list.

Also I'm not sure anyone is allowed to call themselves a graphic designer if they don't have a Helvetica typeface on their computer. Massimo Vignelli claims to have only used 3 fonts in his entire life. One of them being Helvetica.
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