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Article #12483Re: What are everyone's favorite type combinations?
From: Gordon Missimer
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:01
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:01
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Ditto to what Neil said. Chapter 6 of Robert Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style has a good primer on choosing and combining type. One of the chapter's main sections pretty much says it all: "Choose faces whose individual spirit and character is in keeping with the text." Two combinations I use on a regular basis are Myriad/Minion and Syntax/Adobe Garamond. But I wouldn't necessarily recommend either of these combinations without knowing the content. For example, I don't think I would choose a Garamond font for a technical manual, although someone at Symantec seems to think that's OK; I have two such software manuals that use Monotype Garamond extensively. To each her/his own, I guess...
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