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Alternates/Synonyms for Georgia and Lucida Grande for print work.
Working a web interface and logo for a low budget project that use these two excellent screen optimized typefaces, but need to reproduced the logo in/find similar fonts that will stand up to the rigours of a wide variety of print applications (ID, Poster, Package).
-t
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22 Sep 2006 — 3:21pm
Miller is the obvious print analogue to Georgia. It was also designed by Matthew Carter, and comes in a variety of cuts for text and display.
Lucida started life as a print face so it can do double duty, onscreen and off.
22 Sep 2006 — 3:55pm
Thank you marcox,
Is Lucida Grande that comes standard on the Mac the same as Lucida Sans/usable for print work?
22 Sep 2006 — 4:17pm
Sorry, Tim, but I've never compared the two. The "Grande" in the name might suggest it was created for print display work, a la Big Caslon, but I'm just speculatin' at this point.
22 Sep 2006 — 4:34pm
'Grande' is refering to the gigantic character set it comes with. Its basically covers all of unicode. Cyrillic, Turkish, CE ete. I think it ways specially hinted too. But still no OSF or small caps though.
Out of all the interface sans available- Lucida is good for both print and on screen. Whereas Verdana/Tahoma are readable on screen but horriable in print... and in my opinion look like inspired by Lucida.
Mikey
22 Sep 2006 — 4:43pm
Grande: I believe it's the same also. Unfortunately no italics on the os screen version. Not a big fan of the printed look myself. It is a mater of taste. I think technically it's good.
22 Sep 2006 — 5:50pm
Thanks everyone.
Nice icon, Jones : )
22 Sep 2006 — 6:11pm
> Its basically covers all of unicode.
No way.
hhp
25 Sep 2006 — 4:10pm
all of latin unicode?
26 Sep 2006 — 4:29am
I don't think that Lucida Sans and Georgia go really good together...
Maybe you can complement Georgia (or a similar Scotch Roman) with Weidemanns Corporate S.
13 Oct 2006 — 4:05pm
poms,
Have an example of "Weidemanns Corporate S.?"
-t
13 Oct 2006 — 4:28pm
http://www.myfonts.com/search?search%5Btext%5D=corporate+s