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- moamoa0
Top 100 Ranking from Fontshop... choose one and post it here.
Akkurat is not on the list, Frutiger is 3rd & Dax is on.
..and so I hate it
- 5timuli0
- Gloriola5timuli
- sweet!OSFA
- ive been trying to use this that e but i cant see it in the sample page fuuuuck
pauli - Nice.Leigh
- Pauli. Click here and choose "stylistic alternates". http://www.fontshop.…Typographica
- gramme0
Leitura is haute. It's on my wish list for sure.
- OSFA0
- using this as we speak...tank02
- I prefer archer much more then lucas de groots the Serifmoamoa
- I prefer TheAntiqua to TheSerif.gramme
- Love this at the moment, and probably will for a while.
Andy_ssw - I'm trying to like Archer, but so far we're not getting along.2cents
- how far have you gone 2cents?omgitsacamera
- drooools********
- It needs a bolder weight though, and takes very careful setting to look anywhere near its bestAmicus
- yes, lovely! on my wishlist!frischmilch
- I too am having a love/hate relationship with this face.peddy28isgreat
- way over-used and ugly..achangeisgonnacome
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good shit, yo
- moamoa0
Fresco Plus from Ourtype
beautiful website
& Brauer Neue from Lineto, I normally don´t like italic cuts, but this one is nice
- gramme0
Here's a tangential question:
Why do Scotch Roman typefaces not have old-style figures? I've noticed that Miller has semi- OSF, like a cross-breed with normal lining figures, whereas Mercury and Chronicle do not have OSF's. Freight, on the other hand, which strikes me as fairly Scotch in its design, DOES have them. Any type nerds know the answer? Did people just abandon old-style figures in the 19th century?
- sometimes I ask myself the same question, what a bummermoamoa
- I WAHNT ANSURRZZgramme
- hmmm, never noticed thatkelpie
- surely its a digitisation thing?kelpie
- While most metal type came with OSF, Scotches come from an era when text figures fell out of favor. So not even the originals had them. Mercury and Chronicle are new designs and it surprises me very much that H&FJ did not include them. Check again.Typographica
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- gramme0
got an answer over @ typophile:
"It’s a historical thing. When the scotch roman style was coming into play, oldstyle figures were no longer in vogue. Most of the original scotch romans didn’t have them (or had hybrid figures instead), so most revivals or interpretations of the genre tend not to have them either.
It’s not like there’s a biblical law that says “thou shalt not put oldstyle figures in a scotch roman” or anything, it just wasn’t common, historically."
So that's that.
- thank you..moamoa
- cheerskelpie
- Looks like Miller would be the best choice for classic book typography, since it has hybrid figures that are somewhere between OSF and lining figs.gramme
- between OSF and lining figs.gramme
- ...If one wanted that early 19th century Scottish feel without being bludgeoningly Celtic.gramme
- OSFA0
- beej0
- but we can't wait till it is! ;)antigirl
- that is lovely.ninjasavant
- um, i disagree. This typeface looks like it just came back from having lunch with Willy Wonka.gramme
- ...yea i can waitdrgs
- Inspired by Aspect??? http://www.typograph…Amicus
- it's like a '20s version of eurostilescarabin_net
- Grossbig-papes
- WTF is this?scruffics