Check the Knockout series and Titling Gothic, and try to avoid that squooshed.

Brown has something of that distressed quality.
http://www.fontshop.com/search/?q=brown&site=d&btnG=Go

Thank you, both.

Sharon

I highly recommend Nick's Brown, as well as Maple and FF Hydra.

One question I have is how you match fonts in photoshop with what you see on sites like Font Shop. A font at 36pts in Font Shop is much larger/wider than the same font on my computer in Photoshop at 36pts. How can I match the size? My browser, Firefox, is set for Normal text size.

I know this is a dumb question, but sometimes I buy fonts and they aren't really the right size for what I need. I only need a few weights now at a certain size.

Thanks,

Sharon

They may be different versions of the font and that's why you see a difference at the same point size. But I'm not sure I understand why it matters. Do you need to set the type at a certain point size? Any font can be set at any size.

I understand about setting the font sizes. :-) I think I'm not expressing this very well. I'll try to think of a way to explain it better. I have a feeling it's just a visualization defiency of mine. Thanks for your suggestions above, Stephen.

Sharon

I am going with Titling Gothic. However, choosing between compressed, condensed and narrow is where I get confused. I can't determine from what I see on Font Shop or Font Bureau which one will match the text on my web page the closest. I don't know why this is so hard for me to see but I sometimes have this problem. The only thing I know to do is buy several weights and see which one is right. So I'm getting compressed and condensed light, compressed and condensed regular, condensed medium, condensed and normal black.

Sharon