Why not just look at the font details at the source - Process Type Foundry and make your own judgement. - Herb

Visualization in web does not always correlate with experience in print output.

Why not download the PDF specimen document on the PTF website and print it out? True, not the same as actual print, but it should give you a better idea.

Printing the pdf helped some, but I purchased it and am pleased. It has a generous x-height but on printout is something like Collis. (I have printed specimens of collis from Enschedé but do not own the fonts). It seems to work best as a book font around 11/14.5.

I just love that /j/.

I thought Enschedé doesn't give out PDFs.

hhp

I'm not sure what they do now. They used to give out a high quality bitmapped pdf version of their fonts and they would send you a printed copy if you asked or purchased a different set of typefaces. That was about six years ago, and I haven't purchased anything from them recently. The image above is in Elena, but is roughly the text they used in their Collis display (except for my typos).

Their type is not only pricy, but they (like DTL) have very few opentype pro versions of their fonts. As far as I know, none of their fonts can be embedded legally in a pdf. For that reason, I have trinité, which has no equivalent, but have only printouts of their other type designs.

The text is in German, but you can have a closer look at Collis here.

I printed the pdf of Elena, and it looks very nice indeed.

Elena is very nice. The only problem I have with it is the lack of true superiors or superscript. As academic and research texts use to have several footnotes, this is a major failure to my needs.

Oh my, you are right (even in the pro version)!