Typeface suggestions pls
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- gramme
I am FINALLY starting to work on the new identity for my church, after talking about it for a year. We're Presbyterian, orthodox, and fairly traditional, but very involved in the local community. There is a growing number of young people like myself, so it feels less stuffy and buttoned-up these days.
Would like to gather some typographic suggestions. I'm liking fonts that have a 17th–18th. c. feel to them, like something you might find in an old Scottish or Dutch book. Also working with some more contemporary American options. Have been using Mercury, Caslon, Benton, Minion, Gotham & Trade Gothic. I'm avoiding fonts that feel very Italian or French like Bembo, Jenson or Garamond. I think Trajan works for some of the directions I'm taking, but I'm SICK of seeing it everywhere. I've been eyeing Penumbra as a possibility.
I feel like I need more options. Suggestions please, and thanks billions.
- gramme0
*actually more like 17th–19th century...
- tank020
in doubt, use caslon...
but mix it up with a more modern typeface like gotham rounded
or univers...
- tank020
make it also sober, minimalstic and simple,
as religion should be...
- moamoa0
Hightower
http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/…Kepler
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ado…I think Erasmus could be pretty good fot his Project
http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/d…or Goldenbook
http://www.fonthaus.com/products…- I like Goldenbook! Got a little Rennie Mackintosh in it...gramme
- horton0
hellvetica?
- Josev0
Hightower is a pretty cool font.
Weiss came to mind too:
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ado…
- Knuckleberry0
ITC Satan
- mistermik0
i think by the time you get onto this the gates will be closed for you.
- doesnotexist0
use symbols. religious people love them and you could make a distinguished looking mark for them. all that religious iconography.
- BenWeeks0
Walbaum is nice. (Univers, Gotham Rounded and mercury sound good to me)
- Dr_Rand0
HTF Requiem
- gramme0
I am using Symbols as well as type-only versions. Our church's name is Twin Oaks, which works out wonderfully. The obvious solution (too obvious?) is some rendition of the Presbyterian cross, which is a cross (T) with a halo behind (O).
It's also nice that a T looks like a tree, and that when split down the middle it creates two mirrored halves.
- gramme0
Rand, Requiem was one of my options, has a rly nice T... but when I went to typeset a version I found out my Postscript file is shat :(
- Knuckleberry0
Hoefler Text?
- Knuckleberry0
Go straight up Gutenberg: Fette Haenel Fraktur
- gramme0
Related question for you guys. This job is an "official" job at my studio, this isn't freelance. Here's the deal: our typical practice with new identity projects is to open up the initial rounds to the whole print design team. Normally, that's fine and great. However...this is my church, I wrestled this client to the ground and brought it in for my boss, and it is obviously something with which I am personally connected. My boss told me months ago when we started talking about the project that she'd open it up to the office. Usually, whichever designer's logo gets chosen, that person becomes the lead designer on subsequent projects for that particular client. Fine, great – I'm a full team player on every other project. When I raised concerns about following this process w/ the church project to my boss, she said "Oh don't worry – you'll design it for sure." So then, if my role as the design lead for my church is a foregone conclusion, why include the rest of the office? Why waste their time? Am I missing something here? Does she not think that between me & her we can pull this thing off? How would you guys feel/act in this situation?
- gramme0
bump for advice...thx friends