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There's got to be a typeface that looks like this
Posted by The Realms of Gold in
13 Apr 2012 — 8:35am
13 Apr 2012 — 8:35am
Hi everyone,
I'm looking for a typeface with the stroke contrast typical to Didot, but with the letterforms typical to Garamond -- particularly the overhanging lowercase f. Every transitional/modern serif I can find has this scrawny, squashed f. It makes me cry.
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13 Apr 2012 — 8:45am
Sounds like you want an Old Style with optical weights for "big, display". Perhaps you like Requiem Fine for example. http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_features.php?featureID=42&productLi...
13 Apr 2012 — 9:16am
That roman looks a good deal like Garamond Premiere Pro, which I already have. (The italic is neat, though.) I'm looking for something with even greater stroke contrast... something close to Didot in stroke design, really.
Oh, and preferably (let's make this even more difficult!), I need something that works at text sizes. Billtroop's comment here (about a third of the way down) names the few Didot recreations that are based on text designs, not display designs. All of them have that stupid lowercase f.
13 Apr 2012 — 9:12am
How about this? Too bold? http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/typeinnovations/kaczun-oldstyle/
13 Apr 2012 — 12:27pm
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/didot/
13 Apr 2012 — 2:49pm
Tiemann?
13 Apr 2012 — 3:08pm
MVB Verdigris Pro Big or Big Caslon?
13 Apr 2012 — 3:09pm
Or Genath Display.
13 Apr 2012 — 9:28pm
Thanks for the insight, people. Tiemann and Big Caslon are probably best. And—don't kill me—I actually got something close to what I was going for by using Garamond's Display weight at a smallish size (20 pt.) and increasing the spacing by a hair.