Typophile - Choose a typeface for an essay - Comments

Late in the game now, but if

auricfuzz — Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:06:12 -0700

Late in the game now, but if you’re still looking for hieroglyphics, there’s P22 Hieroglyphic, though I have no idea whether it’s complete or useful for your purposes. It does have more of a hand-drawn character to it than the sample you posted above.

I’ll use Didot (from

technopaegnion — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:12:56 -0700

I’ll use Didot (from Hoefler)... Maybe...

This sample is begging for

Miss Tiffany — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:41:20 -0700

This sample is begging for something more modern than Garamond, though I do understand your line of thinking. You could always use the optically correct size of Didot (Hoefler) or Bodoni (ITC) and it would be easier to read.

Unfortunately, I just found

technopaegnion — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:21:04 -0700

Unfortunately,

I just found one complete set of hieroglyphics. This set is quite modern...
An image of this set

I don’t know if to use a neo-classical typeface like Bodoni or Didot, because many people find these typefaces too tiring to read and maybe these neoclassical sets are not suitable for texts about XVII century.
I like Garamond from Adobe or New Baskerville, but I’m unsure yet...

If you know other complete set of hiero. feel free to advise me.

I think a neo-classical

Miss Tiffany — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:31:44 -0700

I think a neo-classical typeface would work even better. But I think a better question is what do the hieroglyphics look like? If we could see a sample of those perhaps that would spark some conversation.

well, you’d better find a

innovati — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:20:24 -0700

well, you’d better find a classical typeface with great real-italics

Choose a typeface for an essay

technopaegnion — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:03:10 -0700

Dear,

I’m going to compose the lay-out my first essay. It is as essay which concerns some authors of XVII century. Some parts will be in Italian, other ones in Latin and few paragraphs will be in hieroglyphics (I found a free set of hyero. on the Internet)!

For my past books I used Simoncini Garamond, New Baskerville, Sabon, but for this one I would like to use a new typeface set (or more than one).

Do you have any suggestion?

Thanks