Have a look at Cycles.

Biblon! It would be awesome to use it for a bible.

—K

Good one John.
What about Paperback?

hhp

"Parable is a versatile serifed face for serious typography. It is optimized for print in small text sizes (between 6 and 10 point). Yet, some of its features prove to be interesting characteristics at larger sizes also: such as the ‘dug-out’ shoulder junctions of h, n, m etc, and the thin midriff of lowercase g (designed to avoid filling in at small sizes).

Parable has low stroke contrast, making it robust and adaptable to many circumstances, and it has a proportionally large x-height for optimum legibility in text. The italic provides a strong, cursive contrast to the roman, and attention has been paid to giving it a distinct identity, with quite different forms for certain characters of punctuation (see margin). With small capitals, and bold & extra bold weights, Parable is equipped for all kinds of complex typography."

Freight Micro?

http://www.joshuadarden.com/shop/freightmicro.php

Officina?

Bell Centennial?

"Best" without price caveats might be Lexicon, which I think was designed for dictionaries, hence good for pocket bibles. I get a religious feeling reading it. But that may just be how gorgeous/functional it is. ;)

I hate to be all self-promotional and junk, but Beorcana Micro might be sympathetic. It certainly works very small.

> I get a religious feeling reading it.

Must be a ductal faith thing.

hhp

Lexicon shows how artful design can be. Something that works so well shouldn't look so good, right? But it does. And there's a lot of very smart design in it. It's an example of design and art blended elegantly; pushing something utilitarian beyond design.

How interesting-- Lexicon has the biblical bonus of having an oddly Hebraic looking question mark. Nice, but it's not what I expect of a question mark.

Any idea when DTL Sheldon is available? Could be an interesting choice.

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I think the Le Monde Journal would be a good typeface for what you're looking for. It had been design especially for small size:
http://www.typofonderie.com/alphabets/view/LeMondeJournal

Fredrik, what’s up with the strong? Should everything you say be strongly emphasized so it stands out from the not so good stuff everybody else writes? Just wondering.

I second Paperback.

Chacun a son goût?

Probably so. It just stops my reading every time. You wouldn’t set a book in bold, would you?
Anyway, you may be as bold as you wish.

Maybe he -rightly- prefers 2-pixel stems?
(Although I guess anything can happen in OSX.)

hhp

Fedra Serif A

>Bell Centennial?
haha, i like this suggestion

>Lexicon
I love it

>Beorcana
I would love to see it in that context

My suggestions so far
Weidemann, Stempel Garamond (maybe a bit too wide for this, but can be very readable -and elegant- when set good in smaller sizes)

I figured since you'll be printing a book with really small type including lots of numbers, Bell Centennial was made for just that sort of thing.

(Something is very wrong with what I wrote.)