Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Sans avec personality?

Weren't we just discussing finding sans serif typefaces with personality? And from our mouths to God's ear, an email from Hoefler & Frere-Jones appeared in my mailbox with their Ideal Sans, just the thing with a bit of personality!










And as always, the gentlemen over at H&FJ show off their vocabulary . . .

Flared stems:













Canted gestures (with upward thrust!):










*If nothing else, these descriptions would make excellent album titles for some early '70's prog-rock band.

1 comment:

Beth Tondreau said...

We were discussing "Personality Sans" faces. I received—and loved—the same e-mails. H&FJ write as well as they design typefaces. Did you see the squib on their site answering the question can they "add serifs to Gotham"

http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=261

Way witty.