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Coat of Arms
Hello there, I realise this may have been covered numerous times but am looking for an elegant serif typeface for use alongside a family coat of arms.
This has to ooze elegance and quality and from a design perspective, include some beautiful curvature, but not appear too 'fancy' for want of a better phrase. I have in mind upper and lower caps in use as oppose to sentence case, but am open to suggestion.
Any help is greatly appreciated as always.
R.
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21 Aug 2006 — 7:42am
What nationality is the coat of arms? And time period?
21 Aug 2006 — 7:53am
Hi, Chris,
It's a British Coat of Arms, but the typeface I seek isn't for use in this, it is for all accompanying literature, I'm basically branding various pieces of collateral, and need to create a style.
You know for their stationary etc etc etc. I have always admired Trajan but am looking for something fresh for me to use!
21 Aug 2006 — 8:43am
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/dstype/kartago/kartago/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/serlio/
No small caps with these but elegant all the same
http://www.fontsmith.com/font_details.php?page=2&details=1&font_name=rom...
http://vllg.com/Feliciano/Garda/mudTyper+Weights/#
Tim
21 Aug 2006 — 10:36am
Check out Andrade from DSType, I haven't used it myself yet, but it looks nice...
21 Aug 2006 — 10:40am
Tim Rolands also has some typefaces that might work...
21 Aug 2006 — 11:26am
Seems like you're looking for some classic text faces? If so ANZIANO, DELICATO or TAROCCO might come handy for this project? See for yourself
http://www.macrhino.com
24 Aug 2006 — 5:20am
Thanks guys for all your help, that's provided me with some good ideas.
R.