Hey folks, it’s time once again to review the results of a poll and launch a new one.
This past month, we asked what kinds of fonts you use. Specifically, we wanted to find out if you still use classic PostScript Type 1 fonts (the kind that can cause the problems Bob Levine described in his recent InQuestion article).
The results show that almost half of you are still using PostScript Type 1 fonts, at least occasionally. The second most-popular answer was a bit of a surprise: “I just use what’s available to me.” I had a feeling some folks would say that, but I didn’t think it would come in second with almost 30%. Call them font agnostics.
Coming in neck-and-neck were “Never use Type 1 fonts” (10.2%) and “Yes, I use them regularly” (9.8%)
And Typekit/Adobe Fonts devotees accounted for just over 4% of responses.
Here’s a graphic showing the full results:
New poll: What kinds of styles do you use on a regular basis?
Our new poll asks you what kinds of styles you use. Be sure to select all that apply. There are the usual suspects like paragraph and character styles, as well as some more obscure ones like TOC styles and stroke styles. And don’t be afraid to answer None if that’s true. The poll is 100% anonymous(ish) and I won’t tell ;)
This article was last modified on July 29, 2022
This article was first published on November 13, 2018
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Hey, I paid for my fonts and they are expensive. I will design with whatever my design requires. I love my fonts.
Touché. As a very small user I can’t afford endless big payments. I’m therefore studying Affinity Publisher as a possible InDesign CS6 replacement. I estimate that their version 2, when it arrives, will do the trick very nicely, as long as Affinity sticks with its one-off, and very reasonable pricing policy. See https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/.
Agreed; I feel the same way about InDesign CS4 itself—I paid for a lot of upgrades since PageMaker 2, and I am not going to subscribe ad infinitum. Offer another upgrade for a one-time fee, and I will consider it, but not getting on a treadmill that means payments on someone else’s schedule, not necessarily related to my income.
Hear hear, payments right back to PageMaker 2 up to CS6 and endless fonts. Done!
I still use postscript 2 fonts (not postscript 1) but try to use the open type fonts. And aren’t there postscript 3 fonts out there as well?
It depends upon the book publisher and designer. I’d say that for most of the text type fonts it’s open type. But some headline type is postscript 2.
Occasionally I’ll have to use a true type font, but that’s rare.
I have to go with what I’m told to go with, although if we have the true type font, we can usually swap it in.
Replaced all fonts (or converted them, yes, I know…) by OpenType. Do a lot of ePubs, had to.