Fonts. Fonts. Design Principles. Fonts.

Hey everyone! I know I haven't been posting anything for ages because I have thousands of other stuff and interests to tend to. So I'm back to share about fonts. Three fonts I absolutely love and three more that I absolutely... Don't... Really like from Dafont.com. Well, not really loathe, I can't see anything but baby eaters as evil, but I have to. For this is my fate.

Top 3 Awesome

Pancake

Just look at this cutie patootie. It is simple, yet undoubtedly stylish and can be used very flexibly. Not just a pretty face, this sweet treat is also able to be used to reperesent practically almost every other typable symbol on your keyboard on screen!

Orange Juice

This is definitely my type of font. Artsy, yet still manages to pass as an easily-deciphered font. It's something that you can use for a lot of projects, and can be used for both commercial and purely aesthetic, artistic purposes. It also has every available and conceivable key on your keyboard as well! Well, what a treat, I must say!

A Song For Jennifer

Yet another favorite of mine. It's again, artsy yet is very practical. Perhaps this may be a personal preference but I do absolutely favor these types of fonts. My reasons are quite similar with the 'Orange Juice' font, and let's just say I just fell in love on first sight. It is also able to present every single type of symbol present on your keyboard onscreen and so this magnificent font has waltzed in to my heart.

There's also a bold version, and my from cute to angsty, what a transition. This adds more to its usability so I highly recommend having this font permanently installed in your computers.

Top 3... Not So Awesome

Los Santos
One of the reasons why I dislike this certain font is because some letters are so similar to other letters. Here's a sample:

Firstly, this is supposed to be read as 'LOS SANTOS.'

Unfortunately, the T looks preeety similar to an E. So I thought it was 'LOS SANEOS'- Lost sane o's pfft-  Which hinders readability and will lead to a very different conclusion and add unnecessary confusion. A good font must always be nice on the eyes AND not deceive its readers. Because betrayals hurt. Also, the weight of the font are all over the place.

  Aaaaand I'm pretty sure you'll get screwed up by this very 2-ish looking Z.

The design doesn't really appeal to the eyes as well. It has the looks of a tattoo font but if you try to use it for something else... Well, it's not very versatile. But after I think about it, now the naming choice makes perfect sense.

Swirly Shirley

This one would've made a much prettier font if there are less swirls distracting us from the main reason why fonts are invented: To be read and understood. Yes, Shirley, we know you love your swirlies, but I think we have a bit of an obsessiveness here. There are just so many of them, your eyes will instantly by drawn to those hypnotizing loops all over the place.
And apparently you can only type alphabets with this font, so it's not really all-around functional either.

BadPad Distressed

First of all, I can see why it's named this way. It's born this way. I have no idea why but I actually feel rather anxious reading using this font. It's really blurry, probably to recreate a distressed -duh- impact, but it also compromises the professional element that an awesome font should have. It may be designed for, say, a gaming poster in mind from what I can gather, but it's so blurry that I believe it'll lose some legibility against a background. It just destoys its own reason of existence, this font. My deepest condolensces.