Typophile

Sans serif to go with Bank Gothic

oystein

Hi everyone,
I need some suggestions for a font to compliment Bank Gothic: Bank Gothic
The client has a logo in dark blue and orange set in Bank Gothic Medium with a Nikeish swash around it. They specialize in energy consulting. Now they want a different font to embed in documents to make their profile more distinct. When this is not possible they will use Arial.

The new face has to work in both text and headlines. Bank Gothic is a square geometric font, and I'm looking for a flavor of this in the text font as well (without losing legibility). They need at least regular, medium and bold in italic as well. Small caps would be good as well, but it's not a requirement. Opentype would work best, otherwise PC postscript.

Thanks,
Oystein

Chris Keegan

Morgan Sans
http://www.vllg.com/Feliciano/Morgan/mudTyper+Weights/

Klavika
http://www.processtypefoundry.com/typefaces/klavika/index.html

Nick Shinn

Bank Gothic is a 1930s Morris Benton design, so FB Agency, a revival of Benton's square text face from the same time, would complement (not compliment) the old-fashioned look.

Patricia Fabricant

Agency wouldn't work for text though.

To compliment Bank Gothic I might consider a particularly rounded font, such as Gotham, Avenir or Futura. I think to use a different squarish font - and Eurostile is another of course - might fight with the Bank Gothic and be difficult to read for running text.

You could then use Bank Gothic or Agency for the headlines.

oystein

I have used Klavika for another company, but then for identity. However, both Klavika and Morgan might be too difficult to read for running text, as Patricia points out. I'll give them a try though. But Gotham or Avenir might be better complements (I saw the other post Nick, I just had to:).

Thanks everyone.

Nick Shinn

I just had to

Such a tease.
OK Patty, howabout City -- better for text?
Tarzana (Emigre) would be good.

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