Hey, I’m looking for a couple of sans serif faces that are or have very black weights. I’m thinking as black as Underware’s recent (custom) Fat Ed, Fedra Sans Display 2, Amplitude Ultra weights, etc. They shouldn’t be too funky.
I’m leaning towards Fedra Sans Display 2, but I would like to look at other typefaces before I decide anything. Thanks in advance. :)
FF Sanuk Fat comes to my mind.
FF Clan, Rhode and Titling Gothic have extra heavy weights.
FF Extra might be too funky but it’s about as fat as you can get.
Thanks for the tips so far. Some nice faces amongst them.
I’m still open for more suggestions though. :)
Shame I can not reach fontshop.com at the moment to check the last one out.
I kicked the server. FontShop’s back up now.
My face is fairly fat, but honestly, I’m dieting!
@speter: Does your face have oldstyle figures? ;)
@Stephen: Nice one, it was unreachable yesterday.
Is Underware’s Sauna too ’funky’, or too much like a serif face?
- Mike Yanega
Antique Olive Nord, aka Incised 901
Gill Sans Ultra Black
Gothic 821, Bitstream’s version of Berthold’s Block Condensed
Univers Extra Black
Does your face have oldstyle figures? ;)
More and more every day! The lining figures are under my i’s.
> Is Underware’s Sauna too ‘funky’, or too much like a serif face?
I love Sauna. It’s not too funky, I’ve considered it, but a bit too cheerful. Or... ’optimistic’, so to speak. It’s for a poetrybook cover, and most poems have a slight dark undertone. I would like to give it a bold type treatment.
Tang rocks!
hhp
Yes, actually, I just added Sansa Condensed and Soft Condensed to my list. The Ultra Black weights are beautiful. It’s one of my favorites so far (Sansa is one of my favorite typefaces anyway).
FF Bau Super would be my personal favourite. Comes also with oldstylef igures...
http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/fontfont/ff_bau_super_exp_lf_lf_...
It is indeed a nice typeface, however I find the ’g’ looking a bit clumsy. It doesn’t seem to ’belong’, it might be too light, I don’t know. And the ’g’ is in the title of the book. But thanks nonetheless! :)
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