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I'm going to open a can-o-worms here. I think the letter 'g' is one of the few characters that really stand out in a type face. There are a multitude of ways it can be crafted. With so many fonts out there, I look at a few letters -- the lowercase g in particular.

This is how I propose the thread will work. I'm not here to militarize things... just some friend standardization.
1. Go to a font site (I prefer http://www.fontshop.com/ because you can link to samples)
2. Find your font
3. Post a link to it (if possible to the sample) along with the font name.

For example:

Natalie Script OT
http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/paratype/natali_script_ot/?sampl...

You can also post an image. Let's see your G-sus.

Here are two: Relato bold and Relato Sans bold italic

Arrighi: I really like earless italic gs.

Mercury
Didoni
Julia Script
Stilla
FF Clifford
Amplitude
FF Strada
Miserichordia
SamSans
Missionary

Jigsaw has a cool lowercase g
http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/typotheque/jigsaw_solid_bundle/

May I say the best g ever is Baskerville's? (and some of the worst are Benguiat's).

Oh yes. Good call on Ambroise.

I'd like to bend the rules a bit and post one of the worst lowercase 'g's known in the history of man. :^P

Strangely, the g in Missionary seems to derive from one of the two extraordinary alternate gs in Renner's original Futura, which I was just about to post:

Architype Renner (sorry, tiny showing).

Plus:

Didot Elder

Porchez's Ambroise has the same kind of lowercase g (without the arrowheads on G).

Hey, my post has moved down again.

I agree about the Baskerville "g," and of course Renner's original/alternate Futura "g."

Then there's the Modula "g"

Here's an interesting link Story of the Letter G.

Does anyone want to give a try to the "g" I posted at the ID Type Pop Quiz?

^ is that a tag font?

Gs from the first font I ever purchased.

Peter Bruhn has been working on some most lovely ‘g’s of late. Please encourage him to finish this face most quickly.

http://bruhn.blogs.com/rants/2007/08/meet-the-g-frie.html

FF Quadraat has lovely gs

http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/singles/fontfont/ff_quadraat_regular/?samp...

http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/fontfont/ff_quadraat_ot_italic/?...

Galliard Italic

Here are some I prepared earlier:

Nick Cooke

I should have been visiting my thread more. This is actually the first thread I've ever started here. Definitely bend the rules... can't have the good without the bad.

@Nick: I like Digitalis - it's got character. Nubian is something I would use daily if I had license to it. ;)

@Grant: I'm not sure if the font in "Meet the g-friends" is Opentype... if it is that's hot. I have a set of Zapfino and keep going through the alternates when typesetting.

@Bald: I agree, the Trebuchet g is quite basic. I think the more a font is used, the more it gets abused. The more it gets abused, the more you want it disposed. Comic Sans anyone?

Here's something I came across today:
http://www.fontshop.com/search/?q=Deviata&sample_text=g&sample_size=388

I don't like how it flattens out at the bottom of the character. It's not noticeable at lower sizes.

I think that's merely a bug in our system, Artform. The size menu goes up to 388, but sometimes the window can't quite take an image that large. Try 288.

Adding to the Matthew Carter love, here's Alisal:

http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/creative_alliance/alisal/?sample...