Hello to all... it's been some while since I had much opportunity to contribute. Good to have a free moment to get back in the community.

I'm looking for some ideas, along the lines of type suggestions for an identity I (we) are developing.


I would love to post the design briefs, but that are anything but brief, near 6 pages of 10 point type.

So here are the basics:

Company: Blume Custom Homes
Type of Company: Custom home builder, 1.5+
They are on of the top ten custom home builders around. Building mainly in the southwest region.
We have finished the mark and color systems and are now moving on to a type system. I am looking for two famlies.

The feeling is custom, artistic, one-of-a-kind, unique, southwestern, arizona, new mexico.

We are using a slightly modified Mantinia for the name in the mark, the subline of text (custom homes) is set in Quadratta Sans (sp)

(1) for headlines and use at large point sizes, 24+ point sizes. Im thinking a serif, possibly even a script. This has to be mature, and challenging, if that makes sense.

(2) A family for body copy, needing SC, text figures and lining figures. Im thinking sans, something along the lines of scala, possibly something like a semiserif, or wedge even?

Just looking for some suggestions, I seem to be in a bit of a rut. I would like to keep the total for font purchase to aroun $300 USD, if possile.

Love to hear your thoughts.

Cheers!

Mark and Grid for mark Blume_CustomHomes_Mark.pdf (26.3 k)