Looking for very fat faces
Hey, I’m looking for a couple of sans serif faces that are or have very black weights. I’m thinking as black as Underware’s recent (custom) Fat Ed, Fedra Sans Display 2, Amplitude Ultra weights, etc. They shouldn’t be too funky.
I’m leaning towards Fedra Sans Display 2, but I would like to look at other typefaces before I decide anything. Thanks in advance. :)
13.Jun.2007 11.12am
FF Sanuk Fat comes to my mind.
13.Jun.2007 11.15am
FF Clan, Rhode and Titling Gothic have extra heavy weights.
FF Extra might be too funky but it’s about as fat as you can get.
13.Jun.2007 11.19am
Bigticy
13.Jun.2007 2.10pm
Thanks for the tips so far. Some nice faces amongst them.
I’m still open for more suggestions though. :)
Shame I can not reach fontshop.com at the moment to check the last one out.
13.Jun.2007 7.26pm
I kicked the server. FontShop’s back up now.
13.Jun.2007 11.50pm
My face is fairly fat, but honestly, I’m dieting!
14.Jun.2007 4.39am
@speter: Does your face have oldstyle figures? ;)
@Stephen: Nice one, it was unreachable yesterday.
14.Jun.2007 6.50am
Is Underware’s Sauna too ’funky’, or too much like a serif face?
- Mike Yanega
14.Jun.2007 7.02am
Antique Olive Nord, aka Incised 901
Gill Sans Ultra Black
Gothic 821, Bitstream’s version of Berthold’s Block Condensed
Univers Extra Black
14.Jun.2007 7.03am
Does your face have oldstyle figures? ;)
More and more every day! The lining figures are under my i’s.
14.Jun.2007 5.41pm
> Is Underware’s Sauna too ‘funky’, or too much like a serif face?
I love Sauna. It’s not too funky, I’ve considered it, but a bit too cheerful. Or... ’optimistic’, so to speak. It’s for a poetrybook cover, and most poems have a slight dark undertone. I would like to give it a bold type treatment.
15.Jun.2007 12.36am
http://www.type.fi/SuomiTang.html
Tim
15.Jun.2007 9.37am
Tang rocks!
hhp
15.Jun.2007 12.35pm
Sansa Condensed
16.Jun.2007 4.19am
Yes, actually, I just added Sansa Condensed and Soft Condensed to my list. The Ultra Black weights are beautiful. It’s one of my favorites so far (Sansa is one of my favorite typefaces anyway).
16.Jun.2007 8.39am
FF Bau Super would be my personal favourite. Comes also with oldstylef igures...
http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/fontfont/ff_bau_super_exp_lf_lf_...
16.Jun.2007 2.30pm
It is indeed a nice typeface, however I find the ’g’ looking a bit clumsy. It doesn’t seem to ’belong’, it might be too light, I don’t know. And the ’g’ is in the title of the book. But thanks nonetheless! :)