Typophile - Art Book cover, and fonts - Comments

Perhaps this page will

Miguel Sousa — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:41:50 -0800

Perhaps this page will answer your questions:

Take Control of Fonts in Mac OS X - The Adobe Fonts folders
http://www.macworld.com/2006/07/secrets/tcofonts/index2.php

We answered that part of the

Miss Tiffany — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:08:42 -0800

We answered that part of the question. Oops. I didn’t explain myself.

> Can anybody tell me - does

Miguel Sousa — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:59:07 -0800

> Can anybody tell me - does Chaparral come free with any software?

It comes bundled with Illustrator CS and CS2.

Here’s more info:
211 OpenType fonts available with Creative Suite
Fonts bundled with Creative Suite 2 (and individual CS2 products)
InDesign CS bundled OpenType fonts

Hmm. Crazy. I’ll ping

Miss Tiffany — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:03:59 -0800

Hmm. Crazy. I’ll ping Miguel. Maybe he can suss out the answer.

I don’t seem to have any

pattyfab — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:58:00 -0800

I don’t seem to have any fonts in that folder. I should add that I also have Adobe Jensen Pro, Adobe Garmond Pro, Adobe Caslon Pro, all open type, all fonts I didn’t buy (altho I do have the postscript Adobe Garamond and Caslon), all fonts I can’t “find”. I haven’t dived in yet to Open Type so that isn’t a problem - yet.

I first noticed it in my font management software but yes, I can use it in both Quark and InDesign. I haven’t tried embedding it in a pdf yet, but since I couldn’t supply it along with a job I don’t see how I can use it.

Oh perhaps you installed the

Miss Tiffany — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:44:56 -0800

Oh perhaps you installed the software for one user. Did you try:

tiffany —> library —> application support —> adobe —> fonts ?

Do you have access to them in all the Adobe apps or just one?

I’ve got the fonts, as

jupiterboy — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:43:27 -0800

I’ve got the fonts, as Tiffany says, in the Adobe Fonts folder. I’m on CS1.

FWIW, this should make a really nice book—slab direction is perfect. This is just the sort of Typophile thread I love.

All that’s there is a

pattyfab — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:47:36 -0800

All that’s there is a list. No actual fonts.

You’re using OS X? Try

Miss Tiffany — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:47:15 -0800

You’re using OS X? Try Library —> Applicaton Support —> Adobe —> Fonts

The only thing you can’t remove is the folder “Reqrd”.

The weird part is that the

pattyfab — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:18:04 -0800

The weird part is that the font shows up in Font Explorer but like I said above I can’t actually FIND the font, which means I can’t really use it either unless I embed it in a pdf.

Then it must be the entire

Linda Cunningham — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:07:52 -0800

Then it must be the entire CS suite, because it didn’t come with just InD....

CS 1 then. I don’t have CS

pattyfab — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:00:19 -0800

CS 1 then. I don’t have CS 2.

Patty I’m pretty sure that

Miss Tiffany — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:38:17 -0800

Patty I’m pretty sure that came with CS2. I have it as well.

Chaparral is really nice and

pattyfab — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:30:45 -0800

Chaparral is really nice and has the right feel I think. It reminds me of Joanna but without the italics problem (which is why I rejected it for my recent project).

Can anybody tell me - does Chaparral come free with any software? I seem to have it in my computer - open type and all - but I’ll be damned if I know how it got there. I can’t even find it in any folders.

Thanks for the comments,

martay — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:36:42 -0800

Thanks for the comments, including hijacks et al.

DynaGrot has some endearing quirks, but doesn’t have the right feel. Pre-Helvetica is exactly right. I keep coming back to Trade Gothic, but have to test it in layout with the serif body copy font.

For body copy, I adore Centaur but agree that it is too old world for this project. Joanna’s italic has always had a pinched feel to me. Caledonia would work really well. But at the moment, I’m exploring a surprising possibility: Chapparel. Mark Jamra suggested it and at first I dismissed this, but then discovered that there was a resemblance to a font on a brochure from 1913 (it looks like a Cheltenham Bold). I usually prefer historic fidelity, but am struck by how workable and appealing Chapparel has been so far. It is handsome in widely letterspaced all caps for pull quotes and titles, and very legible as body copy.

Art Book cover, and fonts

martay — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:52:34 -0800

Working on a 200+ page exhibition catalog for a museum; the show is a collection of early and mid twentieth century American paintings and drawings. The donor of the collection was described as forward-thinking for his time, but also elegantly classical in his bearing. I got approval on the cover painting and a typographic direction. At the moment I’m using for the title Alternate Gothic 3 and Adobe Jenson Pro for the body copy font (and the italic for the sub-head). I want to use a Pro font because there will be a thicket of fractions, etc. in the lengthy Catalog Raisonée for this book.

My two questions to you esteemed type hounds are:

1. Do Alternate Gothic 3 and Adobe Jenson Pro look too strange together? See cover sketch attached.

2. I’d like to use a sans serif family as a secondary font set for captions/pull quotes/folios/whatever. Considering Trade Gothic and News Gothic. Any other font ideas?

Thanks in advance.