Typophile - Typeface similar Monitor, but with Small Caps - Comments

Stephen, Wow. Corpid is

timfm — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:21:51 -0700

Stephen,

Wow. Corpid is about the best match I’ve seen. Could work.

UPDATE:

Our Type has generously offered to provide small caps of Monitor (in time) If I purchase the ENTIRE family (regular and condensed). Very tempting, I’m saving my pennies.

Corpid might be just the

Stephen Coles — Mon, 6 Mar 2006 23:28:39 -0800

Corpid might be just the thing. Small Caps and Condensed styles.

Tim, it never hurts to ask

Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:05:34 -0800

Tim, it never hurts to ask though...

Seems like Our Type doesn’t have Monitor Small Caps waiting in the wings after all. But ain’t it nice to know that they’re willing to make it for you?

Hi Chester, Our Type offered

timfm — Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:02:04 -0800

Hi Chester,

Our Type offered to build Monitor small caps, but the price was prohibitive. Nearly as much as the entire family of Monitor & Monitor Condensed for one weight; If I understood correctly.

-t

Tim, you might want to

Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:55:07 -0800

Tim, you might want to contact Our Type to see if they have any development versions of Monitor with in-built small caps. In my experience, many foundries often have beta versions of things laying about on their hard drives, and they’re happy for a paying beta-tester.

Stephen, Stefan, Thanks.

timfm — Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:36:03 -0800

Stephen, Stefan,

Thanks. These are both typefaces that I’ve been considering for this project. Thing is, I might be able to give up small caps for Monitor’s unique flavor.

-t

Sophisto might be fit for

Stefan H — Thu, 2 Mar 2006 15:03:40 -0800

Sophisto might be fit for this project, even if it might have too much character?!

See for yourself; http://www.macrhino.com

Klavika? It’s squareness

Stephen Coles — Wed, 1 Mar 2006 23:24:52 -0800

Klavika? It’s squareness will suit the screen well.

Thank you Stephen. These are

timfm — Wed, 1 Mar 2006 17:59:40 -0800

Thank you Stephen. These are all worthy alternatives. It’s hard for me to put my finger on it as regards to Monitor. Now that you point out some subtleties, I guess it’s really a combination of all those things – plus the fact I like it’s overall ’feel’ and they way it renders on screen. I only wish it had small caps.

Also: FF Plus (no condensed

Stephen Coles — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:29:22 -0800

Also: FF Plus (no condensed tho)

What are the qualities you like best about Monitor? The large x-height? No change in stroke width? Simplicity? Schoolbook ’g’ and ’y’? Typewriter serifed ’i’ and ’l’?

Ole Schäfer’s Primetype

Stephen Coles — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:24:52 -0800

Ole Schäfer’s Primetype foundry has several in this vein. Check out PTL Manual and his FF Fago.

Typeface similar Monitor, but with Small Caps

timfm — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:29:20 -0800

Looking for faces similar in character to Our Type’s Monitor/Monitor Cond that also have small caps.