It’s nice, but not sure if it’s spectacular. I’d have to see it in context on the cover of the magazine to say for sure. The space between “of” and “Photography” could stand to be widened. At the bottom it looks fine, but at the top it’s a little tight. Maybe split the difference.

- Lex

can you show it in context? I like the 8x10 bit, not so much the additional text

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Paul Ducco
Graphic Design, Melbourne

Use a times sign (×) not the letter “x”.
And I might lowercase the “A”.

hhp

I don’t have much context yet–it’s a school project, I haven’t had time to do the rest of the fake magazine cover yet.

Some great examples here:
http://typophile.com/node/27504

You might consider amping up the contrast in size and weight. It would be quite dramatic to have 8x10 quite large and the subline much smaller and subtle.

Better to post short info/brief about you mag; why 8 by 10 and not 7 by 5, or 10 by 15; what kind of photography?; audiience, age?

And, of course, copule or several covers. So, right now — the font isn’t important.

David, I agree ... for the most part. I can see Neutraface working though. But, then again, I’m envisioning a glossy photography magazine showing only the best work.

Tiffany, I agree too...

Not sure if I’m imagining it but the “0” [zero] appears to not overshoot the baseline enough?

Here’s an updated versions. Unfortunately this face doesn’t have a × character. This one is just a plus sign flipped on it’s side, I’m trying to decide if that makes it a little more interesting (since it isn’t a ×) or just makes it look like bad design.

Thanks for pointing out the 0 not overlapping enough. It matches the 8, so I think it’s an illusion caused by the massive serif on 1. I’ll probably scale the 0 up a tiny bit.

If you make the “x” slightly larger and lighter it should work.

hhp

Try raising the multiplication sign up a bit so it’s centred with the numbers.

- Lex

Neutraface does have a multiplication sign. Click on “Tabular Figures” on the Glyph palette in InDesign. The Unicode is 00D7 and the GID is 614

I can’t find the dimension glyph in any weight of Neutra Display or Neutra Text that I have. They all have every other mathematical operator, just not that one. When you say the to click on “Tabular Figures” on the glyphs palette, are you referring to a drop-down set with that title? Or is that a check box of some sort in your version of Indesign (I’m using CS2 on a Mac).

Try increasing the stroke thickness of [×] to the thickness of [1].
also try aligning the [×] to the base of 8 and 10.

When you say the to click on “Tabular Figures” on the glyphs palette, are you referring to a drop-down set with that title?

In Illustrator or InDesign CS2, open the Glyphs palette. Next to the word show is a drop down menu. It is defaulted to say “Entire Font”. Select the menu and scroll down to Tabular figures. The multiplication sign is the second glyph in the palette.

Hmmm... I think you muse have a newer version of the font than I do-mine doesn’t even have a Tabular Figures set.

I have Neutraface Complete OpenType. I purchased it in late 2004/early 2005. I didn’t know there was an earlier version.

It should be in the Entire Font glyph palette—that’s where I originally found it. I had to scroll waaaaay down though, past all the cyrillic characters.

Oh, I figured it out. You’re using Neutraface Display! I was looking up Neutraface Text! The multiplication sign does not exist in the Display weight.