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Mon 2008-01-21 14:53
Font-geeking and time-dependent aesthetics
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[identity profile] gjm11.livejournal.comMon 2008-01-21 20:11
Is that a list of faces you love or faces you hate or something else? I can't stand New Century Schoolbook; Palatino is objectively clearly very fine, but I find it intensely annoying just because of overuse, a bit like Simon with Bembo except that I never really liked Palatino. (Also, Palatino was never really intended for setting substantial wodges of text; you want Aldus for that, and it does indeed work better.) "Fraktur" to me is the name of a whole category of faces, mostly over-the-top like the one you linked to. So I'm vaguely hoping they're faces you hate.

Bembo's very nice. I haven't seen so many things set in it as to put me off it, for which I'm grateful. I have a cookery book set in Cheltenham (which somewhat resembles Souvenir) and can't bear to open it.
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