A wonderful sans from France is Peignot…..

Linda

For France and the Netherlands you’re spoilt for choice - what’s your budget?

It’s hard to get more French than Mandel’s flare-serif, which he uses for the body text of his book. But I forget the name. :-/ ITC Mendoza has a similar flavor.

Dutch: too many great choices! I might actually go for one that’s not too mainstream. Do you want oldschool or newschool?

But yeah, what’s your budget? :-/

hhp

Being that this is a personal project my budge can increase with desire. I want to make a nice book so if I love a font and feel it as the right one, I will spend what I need. All within reason though.

As for oldschool or newschool, I feel as if my photography in the book is very modern and personal, so maybe a more oldschool font will help to bring a balance to the book?

i looked at Mendoza and feel that it could be a good font for my use. So maybe if there is a good font from the Netherlands that would compliment it, I would love to know what it would be. The font has to work as a display size, and will be used more for short headlines that will included numerals.

Thanks so much for your expertise

-Joe

Would you use Mendoza for the text or for display? That would depend on things like the amount of text. In any case, I can’t immediately think of a Dutch face (old or new) that would nicely match Mendoza. Maybe FB Proforma*? Anyway, a very oldschool Dutch font is Fleischmann (even though the guy was actually German).

* http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/Proforma

hhp