node 15369 — Typophile archive

Normally I would have waited for #3 to run its course,
but this scrap of paper on my desk is driving me crazy
so I’m just going to throw this out:

Poppl Laudatio has been one of my favorite fonts since
the mid-90s. I especially like to use it for on-screen
work because it’s so shallow* without being devoid of
character - in fact it’s one of the very few fonts that
I use both (very) small/lo-fi and very large. I think
Poppl really knew what he was doing, and we’re very
lucky to have such a design available.

* http://typophile.com/node/15367

The thing is, many people always complain about its
ampersand. You can think “they need an education” but
the fact remains it can be useful to have a “conventional”
ampersand for it. So let’s make one.

Being a Berthold font it’s become hard to view through
other font houses (can’t really blame them I guess)* like the
always-great-for-a-preview Myfonts. You can see a cruddy
GIF** on their site, but I would recommend downloading the
the PDF that shows all their “Hybrid” fonts, from here:
http://www.bertholdtypes.com/bq_library/BQ_library.html

* In fact I’d strongly recommend remaining squeaky-clean-legal
on this one. Maybe read the PDF usage conditions on their site,
and definitely only work with just renderings of the letterforms,
not original outlines.

** http://www.bertholdtypes.com/bq_library/90089.html

hhp

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Phil’s Fonts has pretty decent previews of Berthold character sets. If I were to buy a Berthold font, that’s where I’d go.