The other day I was fontspotting in Northampton, and I wondered just how many fonts I could easily name if I saw them somewhere in public. At first I thought about a dozen. Then I thought, well, maybe something more like two dozen.

When I got home I made a list of all the fonts I can recognize and identify instantaneously.

48. And there are about two dozen more I can name with a little thought.

The List:
helvetica
comic sans
arial
garamond
baskerville
myriad
century gothic
futura
gill sans
bodoni
chapparal
rockwell
footlight
papayrus
copperplate
georgia
verdana
zapfino
optima
trajan
trebuchet
colona
gotham
courier
beyond wonderland
good dog cool
bleeding cowboys
bleeding freaks
brush script
circus
chalkboard
cooper black
curlz mt
lucinda handwriting
herculanum
hobo
impact
gadget
kino
matura
mistral
monaco
playbill
santa fe
fedora
stencil
times new roman

The answer: yeah, I’m a HUGE typography geek. Or rather, a typographic aficionado.