Hi Scoopette. We’re happy to lend a hand. What kind of design does the magazine cover?
“The fonts also need to have a foundry.” Can you explain this?

Any font by David Berlow or Cyrus Highsmith:

www.fontbureau.com

Do you have ideas yourself, you must have done some research as you’re redesigning the magazine?
I’m curious about your choices and the reason behind them. This will help make the discussion interesting, I think.

That is very nice, “the fonts also need to have a foundry” sounds 80s punk.

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No-one move a muscle as the dead come home

Hi,
I’ve just been working on a homes mag last week.
If your looking for new different fonts look at Visi magazine from South Africa. They use individual fonts for each feature and the magazine is award winning. Could you also tell me what sort of homes stuff, what market it is. Is it: softer warm inviting or more hard edge cutting edge modern design futuristic.

Best regards,

Dan

My spine is the baseline

I’m also in the midst of a magazine re-design, although it’s slightly different content. It’s a small offroad racing publication. I’m going through different typefaces right now for body and display situations. I’ll definitely stay tuned to see what you guys come up with and share my own thoughts as well.

Please do avoid avand garde which is a horrible cliche for an architecture-design magazine.

Neutral and very clean Sans Serifs tend to be a bad choice for magazines as well because they lack character, they look too bland and generic. Faces such as The Sans, Frutiger or Syntax fit the category.

I think that you can choose a sturdy and common body face as long as you use it on an edgy way instead of torturing the reader with a funky copy face.

Maybe FF Bau as a reference to Helvetica and Atma for copy. Maybe it’s too safe and you want something more edgy. I tought also of FF Bastille.

Héctor

I’m using Stefan Hattenbach’s Tarocco for a magazine and I love it.

Not sure it will work for you though. your column width, text size, story length, reader’s tastes all need to be considered before you choose.

Doing some tests setting text on a sample page with your mag’s column widths may help you decide what looks best at the point size you need it.

Thankyou everyone for your helpful replies.
Fonts have never been a strength of mine as a designer, but i am certainly learning a lot.

Foundry must be the wrong word to use.
I meant like a family.
I am loving the fonts that have a lot of variations, eg. extra light, light, regular, medium, bold, heavy, ultra etc.

These are the fonts I am looking at using:

Gotham for a sans serif
http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_overview.php?productLineID=100008

and Chronicle for the serif
http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_overview.php?productLineID=100032

Though they are pretty expensive, i think they’re very elegant and versatile.
I would like to hear other people’s opinions as well.

I will also look into the suggestions everyone has made.

Also, apologies for my late post, i have been out for two days with the flu.

By the way here is some information about the magazine, which may help explain my choices/criteria...

-It has been around for five years and is well respected by the building and design industry.
-Though we steer clear of advertorial, we often write about the advertising clients and most of the content is state based.
-It is directed towards an affluent market.

So in other words, there is a certain expectation and people to please. We have to look contemporary and design forward, but can’t be too challenging or out there.

Sounds like a good combo.

Héctor

Sounds like a good choice too neutraface 2 by house industries might suite too instead of gotham, but it would be good to keep it to the same source.

nvm

Jon.

Im really liking Leitura at the moment. It has both serif and san serif families. Take a look:

http://www.dstype.com/leitura_display.html

http://www.dstype.com/leitura_headline.html

http://www.dstype.com/leitura_sans.html

Im really liking Leitura at the moment. It has both serif and san serif families. Take a look:

http://www.dstype.com/leitura_display.html

http://www.dstype.com/leitura_headline.html

http://www.dstype.com/leitura_sans.html

I really liked Leitura too Arran, but another designer thought it was too feminine.

Interesting. Not what would have sprung to mind immediately for me, but i can understand that view.

-I really liked Leitura too Arran, but another designer thought it was too feminine.-

LOL! But the designer is probably right.
In the portuguese language, both words (Typeface and Font) are feminine.

That’s why I’m a type designer. I love to put my hands on their curves :-)

Dino

LOL

Something more rougher than all these «nice» fonts (and some advertisement of course):
http://www.optimo.ch/pages/departement/index.php?id_categorie=1&id_font=...

which would be good for «architecture» and also «advertisement» (depending on the weight :-)