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Before & After

Great recommendations on how to choose a typeface for text at Before&After magazine: Character widths should be similar. For example, Futura or Avant Garde are bad. Medium height-to-width ratio, so no compressed types. Medium x-height. Small variations in stroke weight: out with the didones. No mirrors. Pick typefaces in which letters are sufficiently different. Avoid large counters. Avoid quirkiness. Their favorite text typefaces: Adobe Caslon (11/12.75pt), Adobe Garamond (11.5/12.75pt), ITC Stone Serif (9.5/12.75pt), Janson Text 55 Roman (10.5/12.75pt, Linotype). PDF file.

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file name: T D C2006 Robert Slimbach Garamond Premier Pro


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file name: Robert Slimbach Adobe Garamond Poster by Eva Antoinette 2015


file name: Robert Slimbach Adobe Garamond Poster by Eva Antoinette 2015b


file name: Robert Slimbach Adobe Garamond 1989 2001 poster by Dayne Petera 2014


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file name: Robert Slimbach Adobe Garamond Bold 1989 2001


file name: Sumner Stone Stone Serif I T C


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file name: Linotype janson Text55 Roman 1985







Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html