Typeface suggestions pls 2323 Responses

Last post: 5 months ago | Thread started: May 12, 08, 11:28 a.m.

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• gramme

  I am FINALLY starting to work on the new identity for my church, after talking about it for a year. We're Presbyterian, orthodox, and fairly traditional, but very involved in the local community. There is a growing number of young people like myself, so it feels less stuffy and buttoned-up these days.

  Would like to gather some typographic suggestions. I'm liking fonts that have a 17th–18th. c. feel to them, like something you might find in an old Scottish or Dutch book. Also working with some more contemporary American options. Have been using Mercury, Caslon, Benton, Minion, Gotham & Trade Gothic. I'm avoiding fonts that feel very Italian or French like Bembo, Jenson or Garamond. I think Trajan works for some of the directions I'm taking, but I'm SICK of seeing it everywhere. I've been eyeing Penumbra as a possibility.

  I feel like I need more options. Suggestions please, and thanks billions.

  May 12, 08, 11:28 a.m. – Permalink

• gramme

  *actually more like 17th–19th century...

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 11:29 a.m. – Permalink

• tank02

  in doubt, use caslon...
  but mix it up with a more modern typeface like gotham rounded
  or univers...

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 11:30 a.m. – Permalink

• tank02

  make it also sober, minimalstic and simple,
  as religion should be...

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 11:32 a.m. – Permalink

• moamoa

  Hightower
  http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/…

  Kepler
  http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ado…

  I think Erasmus could be pretty good fot his Project
  http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/d…

  or Goldenbook
  http://www.fonthaus.com/products…

  • I like Goldenbook! Got a little Rennie Mackintosh in it...– gramme

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 11:36 a.m. – Permalink

• horton

  hellvetica?

  • LOL– canuck

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 11:42 a.m. – Permalink

• Josev

  Hightower is a pretty cool font.

  Weiss came to mind too:
  http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ado…

  • nice!– moamoa1/2

    Weiss is an oldy but still a great typeface.– Josev2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 11:47 a.m. – Permalink

• i_monk

  Comic Sans

  • I'd buy a Bible done entirely in Comic Sans.– i_monk1/2

    They exist... sadly– ismith2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 11:48 a.m. – Permalink

• Knuckleberry

  ITC Satan

  • damn beaten to the punchline– t_rock

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 1:17 p.m. – Permalink

• mistermik

  i think by the time you get onto this the gates will be closed for you.

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 1:46 p.m. – Permalink

• doesnotexist

  use symbols. religious people love them and you could make a distinguished looking mark for them. all that religious iconography.

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 2:05 p.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  if gramme is looking for typeface help.... hey, i think hell has frozen over.

  • hahaha, well played sir :)– gramme1/2

    I was going to say the same thing! What in the world is going on...
    
    ;)– Jaline2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 2:17 p.m. – Permalink

• BenWeeks

  Walbaum is nice. (Univers, Gotham Rounded and mercury sound good to me)

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 3:17 p.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  Warnock Pro
  

  

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 3:38 p.m. – Permalink

• Dr_Rand

  HTF Requiem

  • purdy & solid– jaylarson

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 3:42 p.m. – Permalink

• gramme

  I am using Symbols as well as type-only versions. Our church's name is Twin Oaks, which works out wonderfully. The obvious solution (too obvious?) is some rendition of the Presbyterian cross, which is a cross (T) with a halo behind (O).

  It's also nice that a T looks like a tree, and that when split down the middle it creates two mirrored halves.

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 3:47 p.m. – Permalink

• gramme

  Rand, Requiem was one of my options, has a rly nice T... but when I went to typeset a version I found out my Postscript file is shat :(

  • not sure what you mean? your postscript file is shat?– Dr_Rand1/2

    It was either missing or corrupted. Turns out I had it on my home computer, so all is golden :)– gramme2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 3:48 p.m. – Permalink

• Knuckleberry

  Hoefler Text?

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 3:54 p.m. – Permalink

• Knuckleberry

  Go straight up Gutenberg: Fette Haenel Fraktur

  • too old.– gramme

  

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  Dog-earMay 12, 08, 3:55 p.m. – Permalink

• gramme

  Related question for you guys. This job is an "official" job at my studio, this isn't freelance. Here's the deal: our typical practice with new identity projects is to open up the initial rounds to the whole print design team. Normally, that's fine and great. However...this is my church, I wrestled this client to the ground and brought it in for my boss, and it is obviously something with which I am personally connected. My boss told me months ago when we started talking about the project that she'd open it up to the office. Usually, whichever designer's logo gets chosen, that person becomes the lead designer on subsequent projects for that particular client. Fine, great – I'm a full team player on every other project. When I raised concerns about following this process w/ the church project to my boss, she said "Oh don't worry – you'll design it for sure." So then, if my role as the design lead for my church is a foregone conclusion, why include the rest of the office? Why waste their time? Am I missing something here? Does she not think that between me & her we can pull this thing off? How would you guys feel/act in this situation?

  • What if someone else's logo gets picked and I get bumped off the project? Is that cool?– gramme1/4

    no thats not cool, but the reality, I had a similar problem in the past with a fashion client– moamoa2/4

    hellfire.– gramme3/4

    The good Lord says share, does he not?– meffid4/4

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 7:20 a.m. – Permalink

• gramme

  bump for advice...thx friends

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 9:16 a.m. – Permalink