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Technical sans font for long text
Hi,
This is font made by Dalton Maag for ThyssenKrupp. It looks great in long texts. Can someone recommend similar font? I thought about obvious choices like Fago or Stroudley. But they do not have this „DINish feel”. Stroudley is almost perfect but its regular weight is a way too thick for my taste. Do you have any suggestions?
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15 Aug 2010 — 3:42pm
Since you want a «DINish feel», what about FF DIN?
15 Aug 2010 — 4:11pm
I do not like DIN as a body typeface. This font is like a perfect marriage between technicality of DIN and humanistic feel. Another advantage of this typeface is it's narrow. Not condensed but narrow enough to work great in long documents. But as I see I am too picky:)
Ahs, why not Fago? Because fago is insanely expensive.
15 Aug 2010 — 5:34pm
FF Unit perhaps.
15 Aug 2010 — 5:56pm
Not so Din-ish but my ClearviewText works great as a text face. John Berry writing in Creative Pro commented that ClearviewOne, its Type1 predecessor "reads astonishingly well as a text face".
16 Aug 2010 — 11:37am
How do you like http://klim.co.nz/national_samples.php?
or what about Georg Saldens Polo: http://www.typemanufactur.com/eng/fonts/polo/test.html?ts-font=Polo&ts-s...
or Strada from Alberto Pinggera: http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/fontfont/strada/
16 Aug 2010 — 11:42am
or maybe:
http://vllg.com/Incubator/Tram#panel=poster
http://vllg.com/Incubator/Agile#panel=poster
http://vllg.com/Klim/Karbon#panel=poster
http://vllg.com/Thirstype/Apex_New#panel=poster
http://vllg.com/Lux/Section#panel=poster
16 Aug 2010 — 2:02pm
There are a bunch of FFs that could be right up your alley. John mentioned FF Unit above, maybe also look at FF Sanuk or FF Clan.
You might also like Breuer Text.
I'd also second National – I wouldn't necessarily call it «technical», but it does work for text and is a very nice font.
16 Aug 2010 — 2:21pm
This seems very comparible to the thyssen-font. http://new.myfonts.com/search/camingo/fonts/
16 Aug 2010 — 3:21pm
Just released: Sense
17 Aug 2010 — 3:59am
http://justanotherfoundry.com/facit
17 Aug 2010 — 5:52am
Stroudley seems to be a strange crossover of Frutiger Condensed and Vectora. If you like it I suggest having a look at these two.
17 Aug 2010 — 10:40am
May I recommend Frank, by Miles Newlyn:
http://www.newlyn.com/fonts/fonts/frank
17 Aug 2010 — 11:48am
Personally, I don't like any sans for extended text. But if I had to, I'd certainly include Vestra as one to consider.