My Lovely Favourite Font! Poem by Denis Martindale

When I peruse a font to choose,
I study everything!
Which one of these is sure to please,
Which one will be the king?
Are capitals like miracles
Or quite odd here and there?
Are numbers great or not first-rate?
That's why I must compare.
And is each space in its right place
Or wider than I need?
Does each stand out and cause some doubt
Each time I choose to read?
Does letter l seem hard to tell
From number one or i?
Can I agree with letter g
Or does it make me sigh?

Are letters seen both crisp and clean
For poets to recite?
Or feint, or weak, or up the creek
And simply not quite right?
When I peruse a font to choose,
I study then install,
A thousand here are nowhere near
And by the wayside fall.
Yet there those I can disclose
That really make my day.
All boxes ticked, that's why they're clicked
And installed straight away!
One lovely font, that's what I want!
One font that beats the rest!
I adore a font called LORA,
For poems, it's the best!


Denis Martindale, for the 5th of September 2024.


I recently studied the fonts on my computer and the
freebie fonts I found on the Internet. So I used the
Wordpad Classic program to display a poem I had
written and checked which fonts looked great and
easy to read and recite. Many fonts are too fancy
or have some strange designs for some of their
numbers and letters. Some fonts look better if we
select the bold style and yet I found out that the
LORA font improved if I used the bold and italic
styles combined. While I like a few fonts such as
Gisha and Noto Sans and uppercase only fonts like
Marcellus, I still prefer the LORA font for my poems.