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I'm the art director for a magazine and I'm looking for recommendations for a body text typeface. I'd like to find somehthing that has a contemporary yet classic appearance. Please feel free to email me at erin.potter@charlottemagazine.com with links of foundries and/or samples. Thanks so much in advance.
Warmest regards
19 Dec 2005 — 10:50am
This might help: http://typophile.com/node/15324 or this post that I started http://typophile.com/node/16265
19 Dec 2005 — 5:33pm
Erin, I was just in your fair city last week -- got out the day of the ice storms. The power's back on, apparently... ;)
I'm also a magazine art director, and I've been looking for an excuse to use a few of these faces:
Whitman (although the lack of a bold italic is a serious deterrent):
http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/whitman/
Prensa
http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/prensa
Farnham
http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/Farnham
We're about to launch a new magazine that uses Mercury as its body copy:
http://www.typography.com/catalog/mercurytext/index.html
Another recent launch used Mark Simonson's Kandal:
http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/kandal.html
And I'm always checking on offerings from ShinnType, OurType, and Fontshop, among others:
Goodchild (ShinnType)
http://www.shinntype.com/
Arnhem (OurType -- looks delicious!)
http://www.ourtype.be/
FF Eureka (FontFont -- would be sly choice)
http://www.fontshop.com
20 Dec 2005 — 3:19am
The Foundry, London
http://www.foundrytypes.co.uk/
20 Dec 2005 — 10:26am
Well, in another thread I'm all weak-in-the-knees over Dolly by Underware.
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/underware/dolly/
Also, why not head on over to StormType and see what they have to offer. Lots of good stuff there.
20 Dec 2005 — 1:37pm
Thanks to those of you who had comments or suggestions.
20 Dec 2005 — 1:50pm
Chaparral
Kepler
Utopia
Warnock
(adobe)