OUGD603: Brief 09 — Stack Magazine - Researching Into Commercial Typefaces

With the magazine eventually being used commercially, it was essential to look into commercial typefaces. I have a large collection of PDF's of typefaces released by Type Foundries, with a few of them selected and screenshot below. I need to consider both headline and body copy fonts. 


Antwerp could prove well as a bodcyopy font:


CWM is too technical for the mag:



Grot 10 has a low x-height, so would not work well as body copy that wants to be quite 'block' like:



Italian Sans is too much of a Grotesk:


The same can be said for Recognition:


I absolutely love Berlingske Serif. It has a good size x-height for block like bodcopy, and also has some beautiful details seen at display sizes. 




Domaine is another typeface I love. It has lots of quirky characteristics that make it more appropriate for headers and display:







Drake could be a great contrast against Berlingske, if Berlingske was used as bodcopy, with Druk used for headers. Druk is clearly designed to work at very large point sizes. 





Euclif Flex is an interesting sans serif, with lots of additional features and alternate characters. It could be good to use as a display typeface. 



Waldheim could be an option to use, as it's geometric angles would suit the audience for the magazine.




Tiempos is similar to Berlingske, which I also love. Unfortunately, I recognise it's use is Printed Pages magazine, which means it should not be used for confusion reasons. 





Monday, 2 March 2015 by Unknown
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