New/Classic font
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I need something classic, but new...
Any suggestion?
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- Too much classic...
:)******** - < Back from Denmarkia...neue75_bold
- ola!********
- and look at that outfit!neue75_bold
- Too much classic...
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serif or sans?
text? display?- or slabbath?********
- no serifs on the slabbath. that's god's law.kelpie
- or slabbath?
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Serif / Sans - Display
- kelpie0
http://klim.co.nz/feijoa_samples…
*yes; I do post this every time. Its beautiful
- Nice one Kelpie...********
- not even ezpensive, relatively speaking
http://vllg.com/KLIM…kelpie - I'll take every single one of KLIM's faces. Except Feijoa, I've got that.
:)5timuli - you lucky bastard. I'm making a point of buying it soon, just to look atkelpie
- yeah, that's a nice typeface!jaylarson
- Nice one Kelpie...
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typography jokes are brilliant, and the people that use them are amazing, interesting people.
- how are the beta blockers working out, rasko?kelpie
- Keep it clean. we don't like grotesque jokes around here...even by AkzidenzTheBlueOne
- http://instantrimsho…TheBlueOne
- 5timuli0
I always find it funny how when you look at the names of students attending places like the RCA, St. Martin's, etc... they're never British.
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- Winterthur Display********
- seems unavailable, with the moustache on the "Q" maybe just as well********
- Winterthur Display
- jaylarson0
E-pill shot the serif
- gramme0
Just bought Glosa, it's a beaut. Robust family.
Also about to purchase Mercury (I'm stunned, we proposed Glosa for my church's main typography but they want to shell out the change for Mercury!)
- ...Now we're stuck with a license for Glosa, better find another project to use it for... :/gramme
- wow, they actually chose to pay for both? can I have them too?kelpie
- Well, the critique group was wary of $1,300 for typefaces; $400 made more sense to them.gramme
- ...Then when I presented the final logo, they jumped for Mercury since it's a one-time cost.gramme
- Needless to say, I was stunned.gramme
- kelpie0
to be fair on your church, they made the right choice - Mercury looks more, um, er, "friendly"?
- gramme0
Arnhem is quite attractive, imho.
http://www.fontshop.com/search/?…
- gramme0
Kelpie—what was the reason you came across for Mercury's lack of OSF?
- kelpie0
they think OSF look pretentious in a modern journalistic setting, so instead they design the figures smaller than the cap height and proportionally narrow so they fit in the flow of column text better
- kelpie0
like so
- kelpie0
and in there words:
"Compact FiguresIn traditional book typography, old-style figures are encouraged as the standard accompaniment for upper- and lowercase text. But in a modern journalistic setting, old-style figures look pretentious. For Mercury, we’ve drawn the more conventional lining figures, but provided them at a reduced size that’s more visually sympathetic with the lowercase."
- gramme0
Excellent, I feel better about the face as a whole having read that. Thanks for the info! :D
