Still With the San Serif Typefaces
21/February/2008 |
Typography
In my continuing search to find what I would consider
the ultimate (widely usable and visually pleasing)
san serif, I think I've come to a conclusion. Over
the years I've spent looking, I've settled for a
while on Frutiger light. A lovely face sure, but a
few years later I discovered Myriad and fell in love
with the fluid, clean lines of Myriad Pro Light.
Lighter than Frutiger and more lyrical when set, with
those exquisite, almost imperceptible caligraphy-like
thinning in area's like the shoulder of the n, p, r,
q etc... I've tried Vectora Light, Lucida Sans (too
square) of course Helvetica light and several others,
but I keep coming back to Myriad. I realize that what
I want is Myriad, with a double-story, lowercase g
that has a loop and link like the one in Agenda and
Freight (below), and a little more "swing" in the
lower case a's tail, also like like Agenda. Know of
any faces that might fit the bill?
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