Typophile

San serif/serif fonts- how do you use them together effectively?

missgiggles

Hi all! I need help understanding how you are meant to use one san serif font with another san serif or serif? I tend to use them in families i.e. for headline I may use Gill Sans and for the bodycopy, i might use Gill Sans Light or Helvetica for headline and Helvetica Nue or Helvetica Neue Light for bodycopy etc but how do I use another typeface instead of choosing from the same family. Please help and how am I meant to understand how to use a serif font with a san serif. Please show me examples. Thanks :)

speter

Well, just for you, there are similarly paired sans and serif combinations like Quadraat and Quadraat Sans, etc. Have a look at this article.

Aside from that, you have to exercise your artistic and typographic sensibilities and pick a pair that work well and look good together.

Alessandro Segalini

will powers

You might want to take a look at the current Typophile thread called "Sans companion for Galliard."

powers

missgiggles

Will,is there a link you could provide me with?
Alessandro, thank you so much :) I shall try those combinations out. See how I do. :)

Alessandro Segalini

LOL

Jan Erdmann

Sans companion for Galliard:
http://typophile.com/node/34318
Ever heard of search?

paul d hunt

typeface pairing

Patricia Fabricant

Faz, the correct term is "sans serif".

missgiggles

hmm...Alessandro Segalini, am I a joke? Or have I got something wrong? *stil a little confused* and yup, sans serif. Thanks :)

missgiggles

Jan, how the hell was I meant to search that?!?!

ChuckGroth

it's generally done by going to SEARCH and entering some keywords you'd like information on. or, there is always the chicken entrail divination approach.

Linda Cunningham

And here's the chicken you're referring to, right Chuck?

Jan Erdmann

You type “companion for Galliard” into that little field on the top of this page where it says “SEARCH” in front of it.
Then you press the enter-key on your keyboard.
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Lobotomy? Mad Cow Disease?

ChuckGroth

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/Har.html

timd

Oh good, cyber-bullying, let’s all pile in.

Tim

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