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.

4 Noah D

I shot this in London for design & tech guru Noah Dziobecki of DzignSpace, who sent a link to a piece about the ampersand. I can't find the link (Doh!) so, here's a Hoefler & Frere-Jones piece about their middle name. By the way, did you know that the character ampersand is not allowed in a post label?!