Typophile

Do these three specifics sound like a font you know?

eatingcrayons

I'm currently working on a website for a new industrially designed product and have an oddly specific client font request.

In the client's words:
"The capital M must have straight sides and the bottom of the point must be in line with the two arms.
The capital A's uppermost point must be slightly flattened rather than ending in a sharp point.
The lowercase a should be of the kind that does not have an arm over the top of it but rather looks more like an o with a line in the back."

Some background on the job:
This is for use throughout the site in both headings and body copy.
Fonts I had in mind for use were (one of the following) Formata, Myriad Pro or Open Sans

The only font I can find that meets this criteria is Muli but with no bold weight it's rather limited for comprehensive use.

Anyone think of any alternatives?

Si_Daniels

Here's one... http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/typeart/golden-days/

Searched "schoolbook sans" on myfonts.

Luma Vine

Must it be a sans?

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Avante Garde Gothic

Hrant H Papazian

Those specs -especially for the "a"- do point to a sans, but you might want a serif font anyway. FYI serif fonts that have an "a" like that are often termed "Primary" since they're supposed to be reading-learner–friendly.

BTW for clients that are this picky it's worth a shot pitching a custom -or at least customized- font, since they typically always find something they don't like in an existing font no matter how many you show them!

hhp

eatingcrayons

I have really only considered using sans so far due to the nature of the product. I really want a modern, clean feel to the site, well as much as possible with client requirements!

eatingcrayons

Cheers Si_Daniels and hrant. Both "primary" and "schoolbook sans" are useful classifications in my search. Golden Days is a great place to start as well, will test it out for body copy and see how it feels.

Not so sure about Avante Garde Gothic as a body copy font, might start to get a bit busy to read large chucks.

BTW. My wife is a new entrants teacher and she professes a love for comic sans for beginner readers.

HVB

Using identifont.com, filtering on MAa, it came up with this serif font
Odile

Reynir Heiðberg...

Charis SIL Literacy is a possibility.

Russell McGorman

Avantgarde

Craig Eliason

Not so sure about Avante Garde Gothic as a body copy font

Yes, please don't!

John Savard

@eating crayons:
My wife is a new entrants teacher and she professes a love for comic sans for beginner readers.

Actually, one of the few legitimate applications of Comic Sans is for informal printing somehow associated with children.

Nick Shinn

Damning with faint praise!

However, CS is the perfect face for all those (such as CERN scientists) who want to demonstrate a lack of spin in their publications—and that’s a broad swath of legitimacy, even if the naïveté CS represents is faux to the congnescenti.

Rainer Zerenko

The Heinemann Collection fits your needs. Apertura by Betatype, too, but haven’t found a Webfont option …

James Michaels

> an oddly specific client font request

Wow, "oddly specific" is right. I've had picky clients but never to that degree. I hope your client is knowledgable about design and has good taste, or else you might be in for a rough job!

Nick Curtis

In my experience, clients who know exactly what they want often don’t…

eatingcrayons

Fantastic, cheers for the recommendations. Apertura and Heinemann are really nice! The web version of Heinemann will work well with my design.

I do like Charis SIL Literacy but it's not quite the right feel for this job.

oldnick, I totally agree with your comment. Fingers crossed for the rest of the job!

Thanks everyone for the help.

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