Body Copy Typeface

charmagad's picture

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

marcox's picture

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

Palatine's picture

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.

charmagad's picture

Thanks to those of you who had comments or suggestions.

david h's picture

Chaparral
Kepler
Utopia
Warnock

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