I am looking for a nice secondary font to pair with univers. Something readable at small sizes. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
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The font Univers combines well with:
Fonts with Old Face proportions, like Janson Text™, Meridien™, Sabon™, Wilke™.
Fonts with Modern Face proportions, like Linotype Centennial™, Walbaum.
Slab serif fonts like Egyptienne F™, Serifa®.
Script and brush fonts like Brush Script, Mistral™, Ruling Script™.
Black letters like Duc de Berry™, Grace™, San Marco™.
Fun fonts like F2F OCRAlexczyk™, Linotype Red Babe™, Linotype Seven™.
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Well, I always thought that Univers works beautifully with Bodoni. I usually use the ITC version with three optical sizes 6,12 and 72. I also think Walbaum Text from Storm Type would be a good pairing as well.
I haven't used Univers enough to provide any further suggestions.
i have seen it paired with caslon also to good effect
in david jury's 'about face'
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-2880466776-6
Univers and Glypha work really well together, as they should: both are Frutiger designs. I prefer Glypha to Serifa because it's a bit stronger weight in the strokes. I've used them in both directions: Univers for titling, captions and headlines with Glypha as the body copy font, and vice versa.
Whichever one I use for titling, I find there are benefits to range tracking to make it look fresher and a bit more contemporary. I use 1 point of condensed tracking for a 24 point font size; 1.5 for 36 points, etc...Then add pair-specific kerning where needed.
Glypha 75 also works well as the titling font with other Egyptians as the body copy; e.g., I've used it with Canada Type's Clarendon Text to very good effect.
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