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This is a tuff one... and, after four hours of in-depth search, I am stymied (but not in the slab serifed sort of way).
I am developing a wordmark for a holding company with a name comprised of three sets of initials of the owners (what's worse, is that there is a backslash after the first three).
The saving gRace (or the solution) may be in the use of a capital "R," which appears after the backslash.
After searching through Rockledge, Font Bureau's spec book (3rd edition), and hundreds of Fonts on our sponsor, Font Shop, I am missing something: the capital "R" with a long flowing extender that will add grace, elegance, and dignity to the wordmark. Fortunately, after the cap R, two lowercase letters w/out descenders follow.
As of yet, I am not sure with this is going to be all-caps (not preferred), initials w/small caps, or U/L....
A titling font would be okay, but the face has to work on a business card and its vertical stressors, IMHO, shouldn't be too heavy in contrast for it to work on da web.
The cap "R" in BEMBO is nice, but, to me, even with proper kerning, it looks off... (Oh, the "R" is followed by an "i." )
Any suggestions? A gold dubloon or sort of compensation/contribution may be in order, even if its to "typophile.com."
Thanking you in advance for your help and careful consideration. Geo.
12 Nov 2004 — 11:28am
How about Adobe Caslon Swash? You could add the swash to a regular cap R, so you'd loose the swash on the left...
12 Nov 2004 — 12:03pm
How long an R do you need? The cap R in Mantinia has a nice leg to it, but if you needed something really long you could graft a piece of the extended Q onto it.
12 Nov 2004 — 12:17pm
HTF Requiem and Centaur have nice R legs too but I was thinking same - why not take a font that you like for all your purposes and then just modify the R for the logo? It's more original to customize a font for a logo than just using it as is.
12 Nov 2004 — 2:09pm
Indeed, Patricia & Patrick, great suggestion re: the leg graft, however, I lack the chops in Illustrator and/or a fontographer type program to pull this off. (I had thought of it, but... it only brings to mind "yeah, I should learn how to makeover fonts.... I'm a copywriter by trade. A creative director by experience. And, a "designer" by default. However, I am a very type sensitive guy. Work on phototypositors in a prior incarnation...)
Anyway, yeah, Centaur is one my all time faves, but, no go on this project; too delicate for small size logotreatement on web. Requiem may be worth a shot. Mantinia was on the list....
Yeah, I was looking for some sort of ornamental font like the Caslon Swash family w/out being so, er, roccoco (or liberace).
Sorry to trouble y'all.... Thanx for the help....
12 Nov 2004 — 2:11pm
Indeed, Patricia & Patrick, great suggestion re: the leg graft, however, I lack the chops in Illustrator and/or a fontographer type program to pull this off. (I had thought of it, but... it only brings to mind "yeah, I should learn how to makeover fonts.... I'm a copywriter by trade. A creative director by experience. And, a "designer" by default. However, I am a very type sensitive guy. Worked on a phototypositor in a prior incarnation...)
Anyway, yeah, Centaur is one my all time faves, but, no go on this project; too delicate for small size logotreatement on web. Requiem may be worth a shot. Mantinia was on the list....
Yeah, I was looking for some sort of ornamental font like the Caslon Swash family w/out being so, er, roccoco (or liberace).
Sorry to trouble y'all.... Thanx for the help....