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Editorial Beauties
Fonts für Zeitungen und Zeitschriften - - Periodical and Newspaper Fonts - - Bild: Michael Reindl
Die Latte liegt hoch für Editorial-Fonts: die Schriften müssen zusätzlich zur Lesbarkeit der redaktionellen Texte eine zweite Disziplin beherrschen: einprägsam in Headlines auftrumpfen.
Platz ist immer knapp bemessen. Nur wenige Schrift-Familien erfüllen die hohen Anforderungen des Editorial-Satzes. Sie schaffen Platz, sorgen für Übersicht, verleihen Charakter und sind typografische Raumwunder. Dies ist meine Auswahl an Familien für den Satz von Zeitungen, Zeitschriften und Broschüren, die aus den hunderten von Schriften, die ich in den letzten Jahren beschrieben habe, herausragen.
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Fonts for newspapers and magazines have to jump across a high bar to serve today’s comlex editorial requirements: They have to be loud and charismatic for headlines and at the same time quiet and highly functional in long texts. They have to be readable and economic at the same time. Finaly, they have to convey a paper’s or magazine’s character without getting on their audience’s nerves.
Here are 25 contemporary versatile and well adjusted editorial families, that caught my attention within the last couple of years, when looking at new releases as well as classics.
The Handel Gothic™ typeface has been a mainstay of graphic communication for over 40 years - all the while looking as current as tomorrow. Designed by Don Handel in the mid-1960s, and used in the 1973 United Airlines logo developed by Saul Bass, Handel Gothic was an instant success when released to the graphic design community. Its generous lowercase x-height, full-bodied counters and square... Read More
Tablet Gothic from Veronika Burian and José Scaglione of TypeTogether makes brilliant harmony of two disparate grotesque models in a healthy number of widths and weights. First created for setting titles in periodicals, the project grew to handle text setting quite well, with a comfortably loose fit in the regular weights. The overall tone stays friendly throughout, helped by the face’s active,... Read More
FF Tundra ist ein preisgekrönter Editorial-Font von Ludwig Übele – eine platzsparende Serifschrift mit moderaten Kontrasten in der Strichstärke.
FF Tundra is a compact serif with stressed forms and softened contours. Its concept developed from an investigation into narrow... Read More
Schriftfamilien für den Satz von Zeitungen und Magazinen