If you are still attached to a College, the 'Adobe Type Classics for Learning' is an amazing bargain. Bitstream I believe also has reasonably priced CD type collections.

If you're not eligible for educational pricing, then check out our "Adobe Type Basics OpenType Edition." There are some cheesy display fonts in here, but also a lot of good solid classic text faces, and some fairly innovative newer stuff (Blue Island, Nyx).

http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_1902.jhtml

Cheers,

T

For people in the UK, its:

http://www.transaction-one.com/gs/html/a/adobe/fontstore/en/type/browser/P/P_1902.jsp

Bitstream's Type Odyssey 2.

It's pretty comprehensive of the classics, although some of them are peculiarly renamed. there is some cheese, but also a large "taster" from a bunch of contemporary foundries.

Thomas --

I have always wanted to use Nyx for something, but have not run across the right opportunity yet.

Curious, has anyone seen anything done with it? Examples?

Hildebrant.

I've seen Nyx used in advertising once or twice, and once on a book cover.

T

I think Blue Island, for a novelty, is delicious. I'm waiting for the right design project to come along so I can buy & use it.

a bit of a tangent, but I'm a student and have been thinking about buying the type classics for learning for some time now. Mainly because I need at least one good expert text family, with short caps and such,

But I also just ordered InDesign, does anyone know if InDesign includes any type families on the install CDs?

Yes, InDesign does include a number of fonts. I posted the list of fonts bundled with InDesign CS <a href="http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?13@29.Sv5gbbs1DYa.164829@.2ccde63e/4">here</a>.


T

That's an impressive list, you could do some serious typography with those.

There are a variety of serif classics, full family, but Myriad is the only sans, and only in the Condensed.

One thing missing from the Adobe CDs, and Bitstream, are pixel fonts.

The list gets much better if you buy the full Creative Suite (or even just Illustrator). Then you get a lot more of the Myriad Pro family.

Don't ask me to explain why InDesign CS only has the Condensed for Myriad. <yodavoice>Mysterious are the choices of font bundling, yes....</yodavoice>

T

Sarah

Check out http://www.buildingletters.org it is 38 fonts for $42 and the best bit is the whole thing is a charity project to raise the money to build two orphanages for kids with Aids in Africa.

It may not be a full font collection, but it is a very cost effective and charitable way to add to your font collection.

Jim
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