Can anyone tell me what font is used on the book cover of the attached picture? And is it just me, or is this font showing up alloverbookcovers in N. America?
US$199 for a license for a fully-featured high quality three-weight family in three optical sizes plus ligatures and ornaments is so expensive!?
Errr... What planet are you from, Peter? I hope you weren't expecting it to come for free with a box of cereals. (All in good humour ;-) ) I mean, I checked the price twice after reading your comment -- I think this family is very reasonably priced.
Kidding aside, what would you consider a fair price for HTF Requiem?
Sorry, but I always chuckle when I see someone make a comment like "...so expensive"
There should be a list "Top Ten Things Not To Say On Typofile"
I will say that I've purchased a number of type families from H&FJ - Champion Gothic, Gotham, Whitney and hopefully Mercury soon. Their typefaces are "workhorse" fonts that you'll be able to use over and over again. Their typefaces are worth every penny.
I agree completely. HTF does a great job and it's excellent value, especially other foundries can charge as much $60 or so for a single weight (like that godawful Bookman swash at Castcraft).
Or my unrequited crush, FBNobel which will set you back over $500 for the family.
That said, you can buy Nobel in single weights, which HTF doesn't seem to offer.
Peter mentioned in another thread he was starting a web design business to pay for school. For that reason alone I could see how he could see the font as being expensive.
Curiously, the cereal itself seems to be a sans (Frankfurter? Vag Rounded?) and yet the box promises a serif. They need to work on their brand identity.
6 Jun 2005 — 9:02am
Requiem?
http://www.typography.com/catalog/requiem/index.html
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WhereSquaresGoForDimension
6 Jun 2005 — 9:21am
It is Requiem. More Specifically HTF Requiem Fine and Ornaments. That top bar is in the ornament set - a dead give away.
shu
6 Jun 2005 — 10:03am
That's it. Such a lovely font, but so expensive.
6 Jun 2005 — 1:01pm
US$199 for a license for a fully-featured high quality three-weight family in three optical sizes plus ligatures and ornaments is so expensive!?
Errr... What planet are you from, Peter? I hope you weren't expecting it to come for free with a box of cereals. (All in good humour ;-) ) I mean, I checked the price twice after reading your comment -- I think this family is very reasonably priced.
Kidding aside, what would you consider a fair price for HTF Requiem?
6 Jun 2005 — 1:10pm
Sorry, but I always chuckle when I see someone make a comment like "...so expensive"
There should be a list "Top Ten Things Not To Say On Typofile"
I will say that I've purchased a number of type families from H&FJ - Champion Gothic, Gotham, Whitney and hopefully Mercury soon. Their typefaces are "workhorse" fonts that you'll be able to use over and over again. Their typefaces are worth every penny.
6 Jun 2005 — 1:21pm
I agree completely. HTF does a great job and it's excellent value, especially other foundries can charge as much $60 or so for a single weight (like that godawful Bookman swash at Castcraft).
Or my unrequited crush, FBNobel which will set you back over $500 for the family.
That said, you can buy Nobel in single weights, which HTF doesn't seem to offer.
6 Jun 2005 — 2:26pm
Peter mentioned in another thread he was starting a web design business to pay for school. For that reason alone I could see how he could see the font as being expensive.
6 Jun 2005 — 2:29pm
This is what I call expensive. ;-)
6 Jun 2005 — 2:31pm
Oops, this puts everything into context of course. Being student is already tough enough. Sorry'boutthat, Peter, no offense.
6 Jun 2005 — 2:33pm
I think going to Yale as a freshman is up to $40,000. (thats one year)
6 Jun 2005 — 2:54pm
Yves, I wouldn't mind getting a box of cereal with a font purchase. If it's Chocos.
(Tiffany, I'm not doing this to stay ahead, honest. In fact I've been holding back.)
hhp
7 Jun 2005 — 7:59am
Peter, I'll send you a box of cereal if you order the font.
H&FJ | http://www.typography.com
7 Jun 2005 — 8:06am
LOL :-D
That's a novel marketing trick. Does he get to choose which kind? I'd go for Kellog's Honey Nut Frosties!
There should be a list “Top Ten Things Not To Say On Typofile”
4. Do not misspell "Typophile".
;-P
7 Jun 2005 — 8:06am
Now _that_ is how you sell a typeface to a student. i'm almost tempted..
7 Jun 2005 — 8:12am
Yves, it's Kellogg's (with two g's)
as long as you're correcting spelling...
7 Jun 2005 — 8:50am
Ouch! :-D
Me being an unapologetic know-it-all makes me an easy target. Serves me right. My bad.
7 Jun 2005 — 9:16am
Naturally, it would have to be these.
7 Jun 2005 — 12:01pm
so if a non-student licenses it can we get a can of alphabet soup? ;^)
7 Jun 2005 — 1:23pm
"What kids in Egypt demand for breakfast!"
hhp
7 Jun 2005 — 5:03pm
My first typesetting job used Alpha-Bits. The client ate it up.
= David Randolph Koski =
7 Jun 2005 — 5:12pm
hoefler, when I bought HTF Requiem I didn't got my cereals :P
BTW I've used it (AGAIN) last month on a wine bottle, must upload some images.
7 Jun 2005 — 6:36pm
When you apply for the bonus gift retroactively, it's Sans Alpha-Bits.
hhp
8 Jun 2005 — 7:35am
not Alpha-Bits Sans?
8 Jun 2005 — 7:43am
Curiously, the cereal itself seems to be a sans (Frankfurter? Vag Rounded?) and yet the box promises a serif. They need to work on their brand identity.
8 Jun 2005 — 9:10am
> not Alpha-Bits Sans?
I was trying to say that you don't get any. (I should've not capitalized the "Sans".)
> They need to work on their brand identity.
Or maybe it's targeted specifically at Egyptian immigrants in Switzerland.
hhp
8 Jun 2005 — 10:44am
Yes, Dan is correct, I am a poor student; though thankfully, not at Yale ($40,000!).
Yves: None taken. That's what I get for saying such a thing on Typophile. And you're right; $199 is not too expensive for such a great font.
Now if only that cereal box came with a sizeable mail-in rebate.
8 Jun 2005 — 12:36pm
I should’ve not capitalized the “Sans”
i was making a joke! c'mon now. I think the bits have vestigal serifs, at least some of the characters do. don't they?