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The end result is a lot more pleasant than I expected it to be before clicking.

Other than Helvetica and maybe Times New Roman/Calibri, how many other fonts have had a lasting influence on culture?

SNL did a funny skit on Papyrus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ

For anyone who hasn't watched the above, please watch it. I truly believe it's one of SNL's best pieces of comedy. So incredibly well done.

That is funny.

And now it is gone: https://decider.com/2020/03/31/avatar-loses-papyrus-font-dis...

Shame. While the new design is not bad, it looks sort of overproduced, which goes against the spirit of the movie. The older one, whatever its source may be, had a sort of raw unpolished elegance to it that that fit in nicely with the movie's theme.

At some point in the future Eurostile will have had a lasting influence on culture.

>> https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/11/29/fontspots-eurostil...

I'd go with Impact bold for the "meme captions".

Yup, it's certainly gaining traction as one for the history books from our age. Here's the US president using the font in a meme: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12075082802070118...

Trajan, for better or worse, is the Movie Poster Font.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI4shGV1EsM

Kirby Ferguson said it first, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJNv8

True!

Papyrus for combining Comic Sans' lack of professionalism with Orientalism.

Also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ

I'd add Futura there for sure, and due to "former professional inclinations", Computer Modern.

Computer Modern

Good call. Everyone who's been to college (especially to study CS? exclusively to study CS?) and read a few papers after 198x is familiar with it.

Seconded. I had to tweak the spacing, otherwise on it was too condensed on my Mac but the mono version feels slightly less cartoonish to me and is actually not bad at all. At first glance that only thing that annoyed me was that + and - didn't align perfectly.

Western "cowboy" fonts come to mind.

Wonton, which you have almost certainly seen on an American Chinese restaurant sign or menu.

The jersey letter "Varsity" fonts.

Tahoma 4 life

Myriad and Garamond for Apple copycats.

Adobe used Myriad as a corporate identity face for nearly a decade before Apple.

Garamond has a rather more extensive history, but, suffice it to say that, in terms of typography at least, 1984[1] was not entirely unlike Nineteen Eighty-Four[2].

[1] https://youtu.be/VtvjbmoDx-I?t=54

[2] https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images3/1/1215/25/1949-uk...

cooper black comes to mind

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