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- k_temp
What would be a good Avenir-like font?
It's for an Annual Report that i'm designing. Can't specify on which styles so it'll be a plus that the font has a big family.
The Annual Report is for a sustainable and ecotourism project; it'll have lots of landscape pics.
Type that i'm looking for is a geometric one with clean shapes to contrast the nature-like feel from the photos.link to Avenir family:
Many thanks folks!
- Continuity0
The two obvious ones would be Gotham and Futura, both have a good range of weights.
The problem with geometrics is that they might not play well with the photos. I know you're looking for contrast, but the contrast might be a bit too pronounced with a geometric. If you're looking for clean shapes and lines, a humanist or grotesque might be in order.
Akkurat, for example:
- Josev0
Neutra text: http://www.houseind.com/fonts/ne…
Verlag: http://www.typography.com/fonts/…
FF Super Grotesk B: http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/fon…
- doesnotexist0
bau is good
- idiots0
The only good font is the Sopranos one where the r is a pistol.
- gramme0
Metric:
http://klim.co.nz/metric.phpNational (not geometric, but a clean, legible grotesque with nice details and broads features:
http://klim.co.nz/national_sampl…- *Broad features. Broads? Sadly, chicks not included.gramme
- i like the broad feature lol
thanks a lot!k_temp - Both of these are gorgeous.Continuity
- gramme, always pushing nationalmonospaced
- I will push it until everyone——wait, don't use it. It's bad. Terrible. Use Helvetica instead.gramme
- I use National. Thanks to you.monospaced
- Beeswax0
"I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg."
Comic Sans
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articl…
- Continuity0
Whitney is quite nice, too, and very clean and legible at small point sizes:
- k_temp0
Do you guys charge the client for purchasing any fonts or sets?
or, does it come out of your own expense and use it whenever?I'm asking because I'm always a bit uncertain what's proper or ideal. When I mention to clients the option of purchasing fonst they go apeshit and can't wrap their head around paying hundreds of dollar for a font when you can use Adobe Garamond, Helvetica for free.
- or you download them and fuck the foundry? hehehek_temp
- good questionmonospaced
- Continuity0
Serious clients understand that sometimes getting invoiced for fonts happens, and don't really kick up much of a fuss if you solidly state your case for buying new assets.
- It's also worth having a blanket statement in your contracts address the need to buy stuff like stock, fonts, footage, etc.Continuity
- true, i do state it in all invoicesk_temp
- idiots0
I always bill the font onto the client and inform them to purchase their own license as the one i use to design your assets does not allow me to give you copies of my fonts.
people who pay other people to design things usually don't have a problem buying fonts to make sure everyone is in the right.
considering type is always a percentage of the bill, it's become second nature to add asset costs to an invoice.