The Font Saga Continues: I need your input!

Hi there. The font saga continues. If you haven't been following, here's a blog post and here's a more recent GetSatisfaction topic on the matter.

I have implemented the "Choose your Font" feature, and discovered some things in the process which make me doubt we need that dialog at all.

Once the feature was in place, I followed Michael's idea and chose Architect Small Block as a font to display Mockups. Lo and behold, it looked beautiful. Not only, but Flash was smart enough to create a bold and italic versions of the font, even if the font face doesn't come with a family pack (it just makes the lines thicker or slants them some, I guess).

Here's the result:



For comparison, here's the same mockup with Comic Sans MS:



I hope you'll agree with me that aside from some padding issues (which can be easily fixed), the Architect Small Block version is not just acceptable, but a big step forward.

If you read the blog post above, you'll know that the font's author offered me an application-wide (not user-limited) license to use Architect Small Block for a large but reasonable amount.

So now, assuming his offer still stands, I am faced with three optons:

A - leave the "choose your font" feature in and keep using Comic Sans as the default
B - leave the "choose your font" feature in and buy Architect Small Block to use as the default font
C - just swap out Comic Sans with Architect Small Block and remove the "choose your font" feature completely.

I can't believe I didn't try to investigate option C more until now (well I guess the licensing costs were just too much back then...now it would be a relatively small cost compared to current revenue).

My favorite option would be to do C, but what I want to understand is this: did you guys want to choose a different font just because you wanted to get rid of Comic Sans or for some other reasons?

If it's just Comic Sans that's offensive, would you be happy with just Architect Small Block? Of course I'd still provide a sans-serif font for non-latin alphabets.

BTW, I also discovered that the glyphs for the two fonts are somewhat equivalent, here they are:



and



So, assuming I can still get Architect for the same price, should I go for it? I'd like to.

Another option is to do C first, then if people really want to choose their font, add that later (thus becoming B). I'll just put the code aside for a rainy day.