Show us Foco.

Ahh, found it.

Consider Omnes, Cronos, FF Strada, or FF Cocon.

Thanks for your help. They look like great alternatives. I bought Omnes for another job so I'm a little apprehensive about using it again so soon though it is a fantastic font.

Any idea if there is in fact an Italic version of Foco? I read some old forum posts (2004) where 'Haag' was getting feedback on the early iterations of what would be FH Foco. There was a post regarding a proposed Italic but the trail dries up there.

Any exta help would be great.

Fabio Haag. Did you try to contact him?

Thanks, yeah that was the first thing I tried to do but his profile says he's not accepting emails so I'm at a little bit of a loss.

I'll ping him for you. Perhaps he'll visit this thread.

Hi everyody!!

Things have been so busy that I couldn't catch up with this forum.

Thanks a lot Tiffany for contacting me in private.
I already changed my account settings to allow other users to contact me (it was a shame the way it was ;)

I already answered Bevan in private, but considering all you guys in this threat, I'll clarify:

Foco doesn't have italics, yet. It was released in partnership with DaltonMaag and designing them is one of our goals... but I'm sorry to say that it won't happen soon.

"see ya" all around ;)

Interesting project, Bevan. Can you please tell us how, exactly, Plantin & Foco work together to compliment the deep spiritual nature of Moko? I am sure you have a good understanding of typography (seven is a top design firm) and your reasoning is sound—but it is nice to hear it from the horses mouth, as it were!

—K

Hi Kris. Plantin & Foco have a very similar line colour which was the primary reason for the pairing. As this is primarily an academic text (although by nature of the subject it will no doubt become a coffee table book), I need to pair two fonts that would occupy the same negative space so the change in type face doesn't interupt the reader.

Plantin is favourite of mine, it was a selfish choice.

Foco possess some very nice subtlities in the tails and feet. To me, and that is not to say this is fact, it seemed sympathetic to Maori line. It's a bit of a stretch but it just seem to work.

To be fair post-rationalising is for clients. There's something to be said when things 'just work' together. So I apologise if you were after a deeper meaning.

B.

Thanks for the reply. I thought you would say as much.

"To be fair post-rationalising is for clients"

Do your clients know about this? Whatever happened to pre-rationalising the design?

—K