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Hello everyone,
I'm looking for an information design typeface, and I'm hoping you can recommend some. It will be used to produce big,complicated, technical documents for an architectural practice. So far, I've been using what's available to me, which is various weights of Bt Swiss (their in-house face ... I know ... ) for headers and titles, and verdana for a lot of the nitty gritty stuff. (Verdana works surprisingly well as a text face at about six or seven point. The numerals are great.)
What I'd like is something that's a bit more elegant than verdana, that stands up to being used big. Or, something like helvetica, but more suitable for text, with robust numerals. It would also be nice if it was Opentype, so it can be installed on my work pc and my home mac, but this isn't vital. It would be nice to have a good selection of weights, from a light to a black or even ultra.It should preferably have a cool, geometric atmosphere, rather than a humanist one.
So far I've looked at FF Unit and FF Zwo, which are both really nice, but Unit is rather loosely spaced for my taste, and Zwo isn't available in Opentype.Are there any other faces that do what I'm after?
30 Jan 2007 — 5:40am
You might look at FF Fago
30 Jan 2007 — 5:48am
Maybe Facit?
30 Jan 2007 — 6:01am
How about these three new releases?
Agilita (don't mind the display on the hairline weights! They need to be printed large; quite larger than on scrren here. But the normal and heavier weights look juicy even in our online disply)
Aptifer Sans
Aptifer Slab
30 Jan 2007 — 6:29am
Take a look at Camingo
30 Jan 2007 — 9:11am
I second FF Fago.
FF Milo
FF Sanuk
30 Jan 2007 — 9:16am
Thanks for the suggestions chaps. I will download some specimens and do some scrutinising. Any more?
30 Jan 2007 — 9:54am
Etelka from Storm (offers wide and narrow, also)
http://www.stormtype.com/typefaces-fonts-shop/families-15-etelka
or
"a modern Frutiger", Corpid (offers condensed, too) from Luc de Groot
http://www.lucasfonts.com/index_neu.html
or
hehe, I second FF Milo
30 Jan 2007 — 10:13am
Fago is rubbish mate, crap spacing and a bit of a copycat of the Speikerman vibe if you ask me! Unit is really good, I've seen it used really well. What about FF Info? Or Flame: http://vllg.com/Feliciano/Flama/mudTyper+Weights/ Or Galaxy Polaris: http://vllg.com/Village/GalaxiePolaris/mudTyper+Weights/
Good luck with it mate! Heaps of good choices out there.
Muzz