I’m the editor-in-chief of my high school newspaper, The Riverdale Review. I’m pursuing a redesign of the paper of the summer, and I’ve been looking for a typeface to be the centerpiece. I’ve ended up wanting to use Atlantica by Ricardo Santos as the main display and body face. I was wondering if anyone has had any experience using Atlantica, especially in newspaper or magazine settings or could recommend similar faces. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Maybe to help you hone in on what I’m looking for: My goal was to replace our use of Times with a face that would be somewhat reminiscent of it (transitional, a certain smoothness) but more fun and distinctive. I like that Atlantica has strong stroke contrast, but not quite like Bodoni or another modern font, and that the lc gives me a mildly similar feeling to Times, but the uc feels fresh (it reminds me a bit of cuneiform, actually). Also, it’s important to me that the face I settle on has a lot of flexibility in having small caps, oldstyle figures, and preferably text and display cuts.
