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- emmaopeel
I am looking for a serif font, kindred with Neutra.
Any suggestions?
- utopian0
Weiss or Bondoni would compliment Neutra.
- gramme0
As typographica has said many times before here....we can't help much if we don't know the context (i.e., who your audience is).
- brains0
Also, is this a print or web project? Is this going to be your body font, or what? Also helpful.
- specifically for print -- in looking around for new design opportunities, I see lots of folks requesting a specific resume attachment... so I need to make one! but I want it to correspond happily with my site (ann.the47th.com)emmaopeel
- oop. and yes, it will be a body font -- so nice and legible at a petite size.
emmaopeel
- utopian0
Please show an example of what your thinking is...
- emmaopeel0
good point... apologies.
I am starting to build a resume, which I haven't done in a few years, and I have a look (more bright and playful) set for my site (http://ann.the47th.com) that I want to bring into a more classic one page format.
- brains0
Well that rules out bodoni, as a body font it wouldn't work.
Chronicle:
http://typography.com/fonts/font…
(would be really nice)
- utopian0
I would absolutely start by chnaging the San Serif "Art Deco" font that you are currently using, it is used on many the Greek Menus and 90's disco clubs in NYC!
- gramme0
Mercury @ typography.com would work as well.
Also: New Caledonia, Fairfield, Scala (serif).
- gramme0
Yeah, Neutra is a 'target-market' typeface – it only works for 20's–30's retro, or for movie theathers.
How about Gotham? Mercury and Chronicle both pair b-e-a-utifully with Gotham (designed by the same people!)
- utopian0
comic sans is the cure!
- brains0
Oh man. I have an obsession with Gotham too.
- gramme0
Or just set the whole dang thang in Gotham. I recently typeset a friend's resume, it looked rly nice w/ just a couple different weights and italics to differentiate things.
- brains0
To be honest, I haven't come across a H&FJ typeface I haven't liked.
- gramme0
I hate Verlag. I love almost everything else. I want Archer and Whitney like whoa. Same w/ Chronicle. I only have grade 1 of Mercury...but it's still toight like a toiger.
- I really want chronicle text, only because grade 1 comes with smallcaps, all weights. Deck & Display grade 1 doesn'tbrains
- gramme0
Helvetica is here to stay...it's a good typeface, especially considering the broad range of weights and widths in Helv. Neue...it's just that it's everywhere! It's too familiar imho. Not to mention, it's the corporate face of several of our clients.
Personally, if I have to choose between a two traditional grotesques for type setting, say Helvetica & Franklin Gothic...I'll take Franklin any day. But maybe that's just b/c I'm American :)
- mikotondria30
dang it Gramme, you argue passionately tooth and nail about theology, in good spirit, with admirable and obvious good will, and no willingness just to dogmatize in the style of Flagellum, and this wins my respect, to a marked degree..Then, you turn round and speak prosaicly and correctly about typography - as godless a craft as ever beelzebub hefted from the core of the Apple.
Explain yourself ! And whether your bookcase has books on Kerning Mistakes In German Printed Literature 1948-1960 next to those frankly awful 'Left Behind' series.
Please.
- scrap_paper0
Sigh. I think I am going to have to get a line or credit just to buy all the fonts I want.