Suggestions for Corporate Newspaper Redesign

thierry blancpain28 April 2006 · 03:02

hello typophiles

at work we are redesigning the corporate newspaper of a very big global company, active in the medical sector.

at the moment, they use the official CD-fonts, namely Minion for text and minion condensed for headlines and Berthold Imago for subheads, and captions and infoboxes.

needed:
- two typefaces that get then used for headline and body copy, infoboxes and captions. normal, bold and italic, the fonts need char-sets for spanish, german, french and english.
- a sans and a serif that work together
- typefaces that dont use too much space (the layout has 5 columns, the papersize is only A3)
- style: classic but modern, timeless, not trendy and not too playful (no vista, for example :))

do you have any ideas or thoughts? any help would be greatly appreciated!

fontplayer28 April 2006 · 12:50

I’m not the man, but I find it odd no one has jumped on this.

To start, classic and timeless things can be found at Storm Type.

Nick Shinn28 April 2006 · 13:44

Worldwide and Brown.

Semi-condensed, matched sans and serif, with text and display styles.

Please feel free to contact me for further information, such as specimens on newsprint.

fontplayer28 April 2006 · 14:01

Nick - I don’t know where else to insert this comment, but I had never really looked at your fonts before. I love the playful feel of several of them. I love Preface and Artefact. To me Brown even has a playful feel. It seemed you could also make an extra light for the set.

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thierry blancpain29 April 2006 · 13:59

fontplayer: funnily enough, stormtype was the first website i suggested to my coworker (who does the job, i just asked for him).

nick: thanks!

any others? i was so sure that this thread would overflow from suggestions :)

John Nolan29 April 2006 · 16:07

OurType’s Fresco Plus looks good.

thierry blancpain2 May 2006 · 01:13

yes, fresco looks great, thanks for that one.

any other ideas? thank you in advance.

Luke2 May 2006 · 08:06

lol shameless nick.

Nick Shinn2 May 2006 · 09:22

shameless

Many regular Typophile contributors suggest their own faces where appropriate.
Nothing to be ashamed of.

Luke2 May 2006 · 12:08

Many regular typophile contributors tease when appropriate

fontplayer2 May 2006 · 12:27

lol shameless nick.

It’s not exactly like there are an overwhelming number of other suggestions.

thierry blancpain2 May 2006 · 13:41

yes, and im frustrated! :)

nicks suggestion was ok, brown is nice (and got good comments at the office), but worldwide doesnt suit what they are looking for. we’ll see.

Luke2 May 2006 · 13:54

well what are they looking for? it seemed to me that worldwide fitted the bill, so spill the beans ;)

thierry blancpain2 May 2006 · 14:27

hmm, its hard to find the right adjectives. maybe less classy? think of weekly sunday newspapers, lots of pictures and some color thrown in here and there, but still with a strong corporate look.

the concept isnt finished and im not really involved, and i dont know how much im allowed to talk about it (but my coworkers know that i asked here).

Nick Shinn2 May 2006 · 15:09

Jim Parkinson might have something.
Typedesign.com

thierry blancpain2 May 2006 · 15:39

nice typefaces, but (without knowing where he comes from) too american and not modern and corporate enough.

Tiffany Wardle2 May 2006 · 16:34

Kesh, have you looked at Gerard Unger’s typefaces? Big Vesta and Capitolium could work within your contraints, IMHO.

thierry blancpain3 May 2006 · 01:59

they are very nice. i like capitolium, but i think esp. the italics are too playful (look at the Q for example). (but no, i havent thought of unger before.. thanks).

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