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Font pair

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I'm in the process of redesigning my portfolio and I would like to find a suitable body text font to pair with Anaconda. Or perhaps you could recommend a better font with the same look and feel?
Till now I have this, with Franklin Gothic and Eurofont:


Any thoughts?

I think your headings should be sans serif, too. And, I don't particularly like condensed for headings, either, but if it must be condensed, how about trying something like Franklin Gothic Bold Condensed and bringing it down to 14 pt?

The body faces you have chosen are very middling, in terms of weight, proportion, and style (although the Eurostile does have a bit of personality).
Therefore, they are not sufficiently extreme to counterpoint the heading, which is highly condensed, finely detailed, high contrast, and mannered.
Overall, the effect is one-sided, not balanced.
I recommend Beaufort Extended (my own faces always come to mind, for some reason :-)
It holds its own against the extremism of Anaconda, by being extended in proportion (contrary), finely detailed in serif finish (similar), low contrast (contrary), and somewhat mannered (similar).
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/shinn/beaufort/extended/

I also think one has to have a reason for using a condensed face. Often the layout calls for it.
If that is not the case, then a pairing with an extended face seems reasonable.

Thank you both. Yes, there is a reason for using a condensed font. The layout and the fonts need to feel...well, quaint. And I like the rigor and structure that Anaconda has, as to me it seems to suggest exactly that: old style without being antiquated, strong, encased in a well fitting suit. I don't think a sans font would cut it for headlines in this case - or at least I haven't seen yet a sans serif that is as rigorous and structured and befits that atmosphere that I'm trying to create.
Nick Shinn, that's a wonderful font.I did some tests with the generated samples from myfonts and I think the regular width would look better though. The extended feels a bit overwhelming for some reason - though perhaps that's because the paragraphs won't be very wide, 500 px maximum(yes, this is for the web). But I might be wrong since my background is in front-end dev and not in typography.


Any thoughts?

Thanks again for your time and patience.

This is for web?

Be sure to check Beaufort's rendering in Windows both with Standard (Greyscale) rendering and Cleartype rendering.

I don't think Franklin Gothic is that bad here, so I'll suggest a couple of others in the same vein:
FF Bau from FontFont shares the static skeleton (structure) with Anaconda, and is available for @font-face embedding in a properly hinted Web version. The same goes for Benton Sans from Font Bureau.

Thank you. FF Bau is a bit too strong, in my opinion. I want the text to be readable, but I still want the headers to catch one's attention. I am afraid that with too many strong elements the user won't be able to focus on anything. However you gave me the idea(well, indirectly) to search for a pair at the same font house and I found Flanders. I keep looking at it and I think I might have a winner here, though I wish it was just a tad more extended.


Perhaps someone knows of a similar font in an extended version?

Err...or perhaps this?

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