I'm looking for ideas for the text face to be used at a variety of measures, similar in feel to the text face for Dwell magazine... does anyone know what that is?
Hmmm... can you post a sample?
The display font on the web site looks like Trade Gothic.
The serif face in Dwell is Proforma, from Font Bureau.
http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/font_frames.tpl?cart=11005824822541771&fontname=Proforma
For a serif with Proforma's "tradition with a twist", take a look at Borges from PampaType. I just got the printed specimen book in the mail today, and it's a beauty.
http://www.pampatype.com/English.html
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/pampatype/borges/
Jeremy Tankard's Enigma is worth a look:
http://www.typography.net/type/enigma.htm
Then there's Delicato, whose designer professes to have been inspired by Enigma and Proforma:
http://www.veer.com/products/typedetail.aspx?image=FOT0000073
As far as sans go, I prefer News Gothic to Trade Gothic, if you're looking for something that's *really* similar.
If you want a relatively neutral modern sans, that still has some of the character of the the gothics, consider FF Kievit:
http://www.fontshop.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalog.fontpackage&displayfontid=FF.11231.0.0
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