[TheGUiTom]

What's the best free font for Somatic? I love this theme and I want a good font with it.
What's the font David uses in this pic? (The pixel font and is the 'Somatic' name a font too?)

[thekore]

im using the theme too, and if i find the fonts i'l be sure to post

[TheGUiTom]

Okay, thanks already

[Acrimonium]

Personnaly, I'd use Comic Sans ,Marker Felt Thin or Chalkboard, coz they're on the system...

[dlanham]

Somatic logo is handmade, pixel font is ... drum roll..... Arial! ^_^

Chattery teeth is close to the logo font though, but i doubt it work work system wide very well.

powdah would probably work well, i like that font

[nooon]

Originally posted by Acrimonium:
Personnaly, I'd use Comic Sans

[eyevaan]

hahaha - - NO MS FONTS!!!!

[TheGUiTom]

I HATE COMIC SANS
I was about to post that pic but then I saw yours.

[TheGUiTom]

Originally posted by dlanham:
powdah would probably work well, i like that font

Where the heck do I find that font?

[Acrimonium]

And Arial is ? ? ?


I'll give a clue :
MS font...


These kind of react keeps me from posting to often...

[dlanham]

hm.. powdah is MIA

used to be over at pseudoroom

oh well, that was a nice font, it will be missed

[TheGUiTom]

Bytheway, Marty fits perfect too! Same with Mary Jane and Medrano.

I still haven't found 'powdah'!

[eyevaan]

Originally posted by Acrimonium:
And Arial is ? ? ?

yep another MS creation. Badly kerned and poorly designed as a Helvetica substitute cause, ironically MicroSoft, didn't want to pay royalties to the established type foundries.

and I have never been a fan... not a big fan of Univers, Verdana (whoafully overused), Century Gothic . . .

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally posted by TheGUiTom:
Bytheway, Marty fits perfect too! Same with Mary Jane and Medrano.

I still haven't found 'powdah'!

alright- got marty, have silk. put marty in all three font folders. silk doesn't see it.

what am i doing or NOT doing? this isnt the first time.
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[fireside]

baar sophia, is in my mind, the best free font in the world for any theme, especially Somatic.

(and yes, it is free, i just can't find the original site where i got it from. google is my friend.)

[eme]

Originally posted by Acrimonium:

And Arial is ? ? ?


I'll give a clue :
MS font...


These kind of react keeps me from posting to often...

you dont use arial use helvetica... and while using it make sure to beat the crap out of arial:

http://www.mimeartist.com/helvetica/

[eyevaan]

Originally posted by fireside:
baar sophia, is in my mind, the best free font in the world for any theme, especially Somatic.

nice

[Gerrit Vanoppen]

Originally posted by fireside:
baar sophia, is in my mind, the best free font in the world for any theme, especially Somatic.

After using it with the Underling theme, I noticed some characters missing like the capital delta (greek letter shaped like triangle).
My most important app being CAD, every "deltaX" and "deltaY" read "euroX" and "euroY", kind of silly IMHO.
Maybe more characters missing ?

[Gerrit Vanoppen]

Originally posted by d4nth3m4n:
alright- got marty, have silk. put marty in all three font folders. silk doesn't see it.
what am i doing or NOT doing? this isnt the first time.
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Quote :

Close System Preferences
Open the Terminal
Paste the following, then hit Return:

defaults remove com.unsanity.Silk "Font Cache"

Silk will now rebuild the font list when you open it again


Or search the forum with "silk" for more usefull tips.

[justinp]

Also worth noting. If you add more fonts in the future, all you have to do is open up the Terminal and hit Up (up arrow) to scroll through commands you've previously used.

That way you don't have to look for that string every time you want to delete the cache.

[d4nth3m4n]

thanks guys. silk could really benefit from the elegance that ss has established.

[Aluminum]

marty is not that usable I dont think, especially for smaller sizes, just comes in that bold flavor, anyone else agree? baar is beautiful though.

[TheGUiTom]

I love Medrano.

[Aluminum]

I was going to say as well, Medrano works well with Somatic as well Baar is just more sophisticated, Medrano is more for that 6th grade look. Marty and that other one, eigh.

[Fat7at]

I can't figure how out the hell I apply a font with Silk can someone tell me what I need to do I srag the font into the font box and then?

[TheGUiTom]

Then double-click on Replacement Font and choose the font that replaces the font you've chosen to be replaced!

[Gerrit Vanoppen]

Originally posted by Fat7at:
I can't figure how out the hell I apply a font with Silk can someone tell me what I need to do I srag the font into the font box and then?

At the risk of sounding like an a**, I think this time it's fair to say : do a search. There are many good tips on how to use Silk in this forum. If you're new to Silk, you best read them all first.

[slava]

Originally posted by TheGUiTom:
I still haven't found 'powdah'!

I've contacted Marc Clancy (powdah) (he actually designed the new Unsanity website) and he had sent me the font. I am hosting it on my server (with the author permission) for now:

http://www.unsanity.org/slava/powdah-font.zip

=)

[TheGUiTom]

Wow, thanks man!

[Fat7at]

Originally posted by TheGUiTom:
Then double-click on Replacement Font and choose the font that replaces the font you've chosen to be replaced!

The question is how do I know what font my system is using for menus and Icons, I guessed Lucida Grande and replaced it , restarted and nothing..

[AlbanianGenome]

powdah is nothing special in my mind, not even centered properly, this goes for a lot of these fonts, baar sophia and handelmod are still tops I think for their proper alignment and system wide use.