This Slate article delighted me: Authors talking about their favorite fonts to write in. Fonts, of course, are the varieties of type you see in books, magazines and computer screens; it used to be that authors were limited by what their typewriters had (generally a variation of the Courier font, which is still popular today), but now computers can display almost any sort of font writers want.
I find this fascinating because, yes, I have my own favorite fonts. When I was younger I was a devotee of Helvetica, probably because it was one of the most readable fonts on early Macs. In college, I was quite fond of Goudy Old Style. These days I like Georgia and Times Roman. I find that I actually write a little bit differently in each. Can’t explain why. I just do.
Do you have a favorite font?
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