And of course to a typeface one must add the vital skill of typography or you can destroy something that is perfectly wonderful.
"typography is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters"
My favourite at the moment is Goudy (http://www.identifont.com/list?2+goudy+9+ERL+3214+O0+1492+6E6+528+5A1+461+5T3+440+6NN+433+C5K+416+4YT+413+3RL+313+MG+219+6VY+209+7NS+202+RW+137+KRC+114+24Q+96+24R+87+L8X+84+5A5+66+3PN+42+3PM+12+6WD+7+62J+0+6E4+0+62H+0+KZR+0+KZV+0+KRA+0+GV2+0+44X+0+62I+0+KZZ+0+ERF+0+F69+0+24S+0+62G+0+L03+0+L07+0+LXT+0+3RK+0+LTX+0+24T+0+3PL+0+L0B+0+L0F+0+ERP+0+LTS+0+L8Z+0+ZE+0+KRD+0+L90+0+3RN+0+3PO+0+HVG+0+MH+0+HVF+0+LNK+0+5A2+0+L8Y+0+ERR+0+ERS+0+IAU+0+HYJ+0) but only in print because it breaks up on screen so the current solution is to thicken the bits that break, which ruins it.
Oh, that's amusing, too. The shapes of the serifs on the left of the B and D jumped out at me as particularly pretty. Then I realised they were reminding me of another font. After a couple of false starts, I realised what: Garamond! Goudy appears to have some of Garamond's good points, but to be just enough unlike Garamond that it doesn't instantly remind me of doing tedious DTP of ISO 9000 forms. Which can only be a good thing :-)
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"typography is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters"
My favourite at the moment is Goudy (http://www.identifont.com/list?2+goudy+9+ERL+3214+O0+1492+6E6+528+5A1+461+5T3+440+6NN+433+C5K+416+4YT+413+3RL+313+MG+219+6VY+209+7NS+202+RW+137+KRC+114+24Q+96+24R+87+L8X+84+5A5+66+3PN+42+3PM+12+6WD+7+62J+0+6E4+0+62H+0+KZR+0+KZV+0+KRA+0+GV2+0+44X+0+62I+0+KZZ+0+ERF+0+F69+0+24S+0+62G+0+L03+0+L07+0+LXT+0+3RK+0+LTX+0+24T+0+3PL+0+L0B+0+L0F+0+ERP+0+LTS+0+L8Z+0+ZE+0+KRD+0+L90+0+3RN+0+3PO+0+HVG+0+MH+0+HVF+0+LNK+0+5A2+0+L8Y+0+ERR+0+ERS+0+IAU+0+HYJ+0) but only in print because it breaks up on screen so the current solution is to thicken the bits that break, which ruins it.
Oh, that's amusing, too. The shapes of the serifs on the left of the B and D jumped out at me as particularly pretty. Then I realised they were reminding me of another font. After a couple of false starts, I realised what: Garamond! Goudy appears to have some of Garamond's good points, but to be just enough unlike Garamond that it doesn't instantly remind me of doing tedious DTP of ISO 9000 forms. Which can only be a good thing :-)