Caecilia or Stymie or?
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- i_monk
I'm looking for a good slab serif with an open and modern feeling, with boxy slabs, and a low stroke contrast. It's for a restaurant, for display/title/subhead use, but not body copy. I think I've settled on...
PMN Caecilia:
Linotype Stymie:
Or can you suggest something better? I've looked at Serifa and Beton, and of course Clarendon.
- Centigrade0
Rockwell (but it's badly kerned) is also similar.
- villars0
First oneeee
- villars0
Actually, no, second one. :)
- Typographica0
We can't give you good advice without knowing something about the restaurant. Who are they? What is their clientele? What does the decor look like? How do they want to distinguish themselves?
- DeSiard0
I've used Caecilia fairly extensively for one of my clients. I don't really have any complaints, plenty of weights and the italics are nice. Stymie is a little too geometric for my taste.
- i_monk0
Typog: Modern international cuisine (all hand food), locally sourced/supplied, pushing the green angle (biodegradable this and that), lots of stainless steel... they're just starting up.
- i_monk0
bumping for the west coast
- jxh1120
http://www.houseind.com/include/…
neutraface slab
- jimbojones0
dancer serif
vista slab <-
ff tiza
ff unit slab
kthxbye
- gramme0
Serifa works. I used it for a French-American restaurant once and it was very useful.
You mentioned modern, stainless ... made me think of Prelo Slab: http://dstype.com/index.php?id=2…
A bit sturdier than Caecilia, and more contemporary than Serifa.
- i_monk0
Client has decided on Caecilia. Thanks all.