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Font to go with h&fj Whitney book
Posted by Lacie in
5 Oct 2012 — 7:54am
5 Oct 2012 — 7:54am
Hi everyone, i'm new here, i'm a second year student graphic design in Brussels Belgium and of course a passion for type (not a type designer just a user :-p) and been reading the forums for quite some time and it helped me out allot in my first year at the academy of art.
I kind of had a question and hope that someone could help me out a bit. I'm looking for a nice "serif" font to accompany H&FJ's Whitney Book (Sans Serif) The purpose is to use it in some poetry text.
I was looking at Verdigris from MVB but don't know if that would be a good choice?...I know the H&FJ site recommends using a serif of their own but i'm looking for some more suggestions...
Also maybe another question, is it okay to use a Pantone color when its getting digitally printed...i printed out (at the print shop) some pages that have a blue background but i can't help but notice that it has this really soft subtle red/pink tint to it...whats the best way to use color in a document for print (digitally)
Thanks everyone for helping
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5 Oct 2012 — 9:10am
I would match Whitney through historical allusion, with another face in the style of the era which it references.
Or through harmonious formal characteristics.
The principal here is: very close or very far apart, but not “sort of” (a little bit similar).
Verdigris is a sturdy face, and, like all single-master serifed faces, the size at which it is reproduced has a huge bearing on how well it works in a layout, or with another typeface.
With printed color, it’s always best to look a sample appearing in the medium intended.
Pantone produces printed specimen swatches that are helpful.
5 Oct 2012 — 10:50am
Thanx for your reply Nick,
Anny specific suggestions?
6 Oct 2012 — 8:42am
I would say, if you want a serif, almost all humanist / old styles work, also some Scotches maybe or more contemporary designs. Depends a little if you want to emphasize the friendliness or counteract it. I like Proforma, Parabel, Tibere, Harriet, Whitman, Page Serif, Really, Elmhurst, Atma, Miller …
6 Oct 2012 — 10:26pm
I have used Whitney as a display face with Garamond Premier Pro as a text face, but this doesn't sound like quite what you're after. Both Whitney and Verdigris are favorite typefaces of mine, though I don't think I've ever used the two together. Might work nicely, though. However, if you're looking for contrast, you ought to have at least two kinds of contrast: not just structure (sans/serif) but also size, or weight, or position on the page, or some other extra way of distinguishing them.