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Apostrophe's choices

In reply to If you only had ten type families to use in your designs for the next 20 years or so, what would they be?, Apostrophe replied in 2000:

• 1 - Galliard (Carter&Cone)
• 2 - Augereau (George Abrams' Garamond)
• 3 - Futura (Linotype)
• 4 - Franklin Gothic (Elsner&Flake's version)
• 5 - Plantin (Monotype)
• 6 - Palatino (Linotype)
• 7 - Mantinia (Carter&Cone)
• 8 - Univers (Linotype)
• 9 - Zapfino (Linotype)
• 10 - Officina Sans (ITC)

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