Typophile

Font for Fashion Dictionary...?

bosschan

Hello typophiles

Any ideas on a typeface that would be suitable for a fashion dictionary?
Ideally I need a family with small caps for cross references.

Thanks, Bosschan

ITC Charlotte Sans &/or Serif — FTN Delicato.

For display, Fashion tends to love Didot and Avant Garde. Or consider a very thin sans.

House Industries Chalet family

The Didones are beyond over used in fashion to the point of being cliches. It may be the most obvious and appropriate choice here.

Helvetica with extremely tight tracking also works well. For the first half of a title, use the Thin weight; for the last half, Heavy. Either go all upper or all lowercase, or a combination of both (thin and lower, heavy and upper, or vice versa).

This also works with Avant Garde as previously mentioned, or combining a heavy Didone with a thin grotesque, or vice versa.

- Lex

Use House Luxury while it's still new. It's certainly appropriate for fashion, not to mention being totally gorgeous.

Thanks for the tips, you guys are masters.

Can you choose weights of the Didone that are optically even? I'd scratch using the sans and stick with all Didone.

I've always wanted an excuse to use HTF Didot...

FF Acanthus is very nice.

:D

Do not squoosh.

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Your squooshing reminded me of something else. If you want to go sans, you might try Anisette (Thin) from Typofonderie.

I'm learning a lot, my first attempt now looks terrible!

You are NOT terrible. I think you are coming along nicely.

Mike

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